The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

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takeost 8s1tclh1 tlnl)ttt(. a;t i y slighIt attack on th y
orthodoxy. I fetar the fortress mutt be wvealk,
wterc' 1i}c oitworks 1are dclfii.ndcd with sclm:l a
wvasto ef 11t nneCSSIessaY e a.''tI.V,
" 1 know not whty or Wll(ereOre you have p)ai2
mC this visitt C.aptain s lorntgttigclif'" said M1a
tti;il, vith) a laudab}le lisclretionl, wvt iic t pro.npted
him to recolnnoitre the other'is vielws a little, ct
tClre li aid himsilt tli nore opIenl; i capt aitn be
yourI rIank, and Itt.orroit tt cl i.tle h}e your nae.tt itT tt
this I dlo kn:uow, that if it e only to mrock ttc in
itt'y prn'esent situationt,, it is neittcher'older.t-like not.,:
an'anl y; and it is w\vhat, in otlher cf' ire''.l.mstanc. es,
Iaght h e att(.lend(tld hy sot me (.h azard?.' flu-int'," stti tl the other, wvit } his h nits ova't }
~coolness " I see you set the wvine down as nothling. i}~oth t0I(-. -:kinr. Sdrilks not tat o(s)od' itortile
thing, thotutgh theP })Klr (mlll;lll. Ittr)t Rl tzt t the fll
plain reason that the sun otf El.n~:and cannot tind
its wvay throuttl t the walls (t' Windsor C. astle, (as
Ceasily as the sun of' ( arolina can tarm a gat ct
(.yersc(!t wtvith citedar shinil:t!es, Bint I like yofur
stlirit morc, a(nd in:re. So (irawi- yourself> upt) in
hat tie an'tay, and let ust have another ch arge at this
bllack bot'le, when I' siattl lay betore yotur military
eyes a Plan of the whole caijmIign.
ttlaniual first bestowet a\ inquiring gtlance at his
et —-mpanion, Nwhen, discovering no other exp}ression
thant fo(olisIh curming, \hihel was Iast yielding be.ifore thle encroachin: e. tot sttrl)s of sttupid i nebriety,
hie quietly ptlaced himsel1scff it thte (esiredl ptositiont'l he t tvine +was (hfdunk, wthetn Borrought lil.. p).tro -
eeeded to open his comn'DImications m1re0 unCre.
" You aie a sotldiaer1, ic and I al, a solticr.' hat,;',on are a soldier.1 on Onrdely orcould ell; foi- tie
dot,)g has bothl seen a a sIelt xvillanotse
salt-petre, \vwhen conltpontlnd e(2 according to a wic'