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

sson0i1) arnd that wOe shall be priol)elty edified aind
instructed how to attain civalion in liltfe, by the
future exaltation of.'Mr. C(.hristophler Diillon; though
by what title he is to bc then known, I.am at a loss
t o say.~"
(%loine'l H toward was too much cceupied with
his ownO ex parte views oft' the Nwar and things in
gcer (C alI to observe tile Sh'ecwld 1001los that wc, (
Cxcltng-.cld t)etwcen tthe soldiers; but he answerled
w Vithb Vetif(lc simlticiety..
" I have reflected mtuch on. that point, and have
eonie( to the op)iionl, that as he has a smnall estate
on that river, hec should caus(e his first barony to
be kInownI by the title of' Plcdee.' "
" l::arolny B echfioed or01roughdeliffe; "I t rust
the new niobles of a new world will di sdain the
old worn out iistinctlions of a hackneyed universe
e....schew all baronhies, mine host, and cast earldomis and dlukedons to the shades. The iniio' i
tat Locke h~as lunloctked hiJ;s fe-rtilc mnind to furnish
you with appltlatioiis suitcd to the oriinality o'
youtr conditiyon, anti the M nature of your1 country.
Ah! here ctotnic1s the (acaiqtue of Pedee, in his pro.
Itper pe'.rson)tl
As Borroumghcllifik: Spiol;e, r they were ascending
thte flight of stone steps wh\ich ledt to the uppe'i
apat inlients, where the ptrisoncrs were still s5up)
iposed to bhe cotfined; and, at tlie samke 1monment,
the sulle n, g.loonmy fetatutresof D)ifllon'eri'e seen as
he advanccd atlog the lower passa-vt, withl 1an exjirre.ss;on of inalicious.x exiiutati iohoverin,,g albove his
dark brow, that deioted htis secret sat isfItet ionI
As the h. ours hafl passed away, the ciperiod had
comne rounid when I I1, man who had been prisciii
at the.scape of (i'.'i fiithi antd tis fricnd1s, ws a gain
posted to [l':eform, thue (llty of senltinel. As this
ioldiet xxcti!kncwv tOe situation of his trutS, i'e was.'a