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

cepjt that it is rascally treatment, a tnd such as I shall
yet itmake thalt ampittmt iious, aquatic genttleman an (t
Sv:t'r i t'. BOt, t lot the tdool.........loor k as tti nothing
(adt hatlppened, altnd. —--- -
A\.h! yourl honour, that is n-ot so easily (lone
as youtr }tol.tlt ti. may plezas to think. I }tave nlot
tany doi ) )t 1l there is tlhe printt of thie brtctt(, of
a musket stanllped Ol illy back and shouldters, as
plainly to be steel as th}atl l.lhtl.'
T he lookl- as you please; but hol your pett a te,c
sirit al. Itert is a ti'owtin to )uxt' plaster. I telltd
the I{ do tlitrow' aw a your mnusket on the stairs...
go sC mh it and ret url to yout post and wihen you
tre reli vctd actt as if nothin Iast d hatited. I
taket t}he resllmnsibiity oi ntys pfI:"f
tIhte 1a1l obet(!c, atand wit h( he wX'ias onet anorl'e
armvcl tI, I1)or r..iflehl', a g.'ood deal sobered by the
St'rit')1'ise, madel tlhe best of' hiis waxt to lhis own
apni t, mat,2} muttering ti. tt ats aifnd cx(ccrmatioils fagains
the " corps' of marines, andt the whole'race," as ho:tnlhd tlhem,'" of aquatic. amphibii,"