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

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t11i)oly reblio, io~ cattltsed the calatnity then and
tnow!? exclt;a-in: d tle:. c('olone-l.' lad I 10ot better talk tt a hasty refrieshment fo
1uy 1:11)tt ait1 their ot se' )S"i asked the cornet;
"id( thel n ake ll t swtcep lt a Ie i miles alongt thle
coa st i:? I} t: ily be n l itt(.k to ento unter tle flitives, 01 so50111 part of thein filt e."
":You have anticipated my very thoulghts," 10tturned ioittrou: helift T (' he Cat. ique (of )Pedt e.
may clos, the gales of St.:t uth, oalt, by bat.ring
the windowsr and armingt the servants, he c.antn
thmake a verty, good (det0cte a:a:im;t att attack, should
they tlhink )11roper to assail outt' fortress; atiert he
1has reputsed ttemt, leave it to 1)1e to eut off t1leir
to:I te'at.'
Dillon tbut little relished this p)roposal; lot' he
thou,:fht an alttempi)t to stornm the NAbbey woulld be
thle )most probbl t ct Course adopted bty I r iflith, it)
order to trestt1 his nistress; and tle jurist thad
notne of thi sTpitit of a soldier itn his Compo:sition..In truth:I: it was this deflicientey ftat It had i(lut:ed
him 1 to (i) art ln i'(.rsot:l, the pi)eeedtin4 nitht, in
quest of tlhze rc in:lorcemetlt nt, instead of set(titlng an'expt-ss oil thte erralnd. htit tihe neeessitty of, (devising an eOxIse foi'r a change in this dangertous
arrattrnl mtt was; obviateld by Colonel ii [owx'ard,
who exelaittt t(I, as s(1)tt as Bl1orroutglef illf.'0 con)
eluded his phan...
"'o me C( aptair t orroughelif, i belongs, of
rigeltt the' duty. of detf'lendinc St. Rtuthn ndt it sb)ali
b)e 1o0.o I la to fic t ty t tworks; )but Kit xtooXttld
ratther ty hisy ch alnce in the t ojpen tiet, I kIotvw.
Come:, let its to out' breaktast, and then 1e shall'0) t11 and at as ast s ntlide to t1e horse, atolig t}he
itfficult )ttsscs of' tte s(.etashore."'
I Po:,reak i t thenA let it te,' ciedl the captai n
" I dist rtst not mly new Cont1 tnIt-atdert of thel fortress,