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

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my oWV' tP}oor bnrotlher II!arry, hav,'c saidt, lad it
pleased (:lo(-i that tlhey had survivred to \o itness
this bur,nin shltame aid lttasting stiima on thy re.
s)pectabh: ttntne iT"
" lad mxl fatiher lived, he vould now hlave been
tupholding the inldeplndenl e of his nativte lands"
said tll(en!')young Iman, p-troudly. ".I wish to respect
cvtcti th( }p)tr(ejtdlices of Cololnel tloward, andt beg
h(. \xill f)othear urgl5ingt a subject onl whlic I itar
we never t sall atrC "3
t Sexc:r while1 thout art to be found in the
ranks oif rebellion!' cried, tLhe coloel. () h
boy, boy! how I could have lo)ved and chcrishted
thee, it the skiill attrnd knowtlcdtle obttained in thlel
service of thy p)rinc( twlere noxV devoted to theO
maintentance of hlis unalientablet rights! I love.dt
thy lattter, worthy - lugh, even as I loved mlly o(),\
brother H-arry."'
" Anld his son shou)ld still be {derat to you" interrutted C(-ri.flith, takitn the reluctalnt hand of the
Colonel into both his own.
S' A.lt}, ilN]a'(l, a: Edwta.rld!) contin'ued the softenetl veteran, "'S hoxvl I manty of my? dlay-dreams h}av<e
beent de.stroyeld )by thy perversity! nay, X klnow
not thlat Kit, disreeist and loyal as be iS) cot1di
have fotund such fixotour in my Cyes as thy self
t'hete is a cast of' thi y htther in that fhee antd smilei
Ned, 1 t:lt mit ihavet won t e to any thint" short
of? treasont-...... andi titen (icily, p)i'o\okin",' tenlder.
niutinous, kinId, atik.:(lctionatc goood Ciilyv wouhl
h}ave beon a link to unite us tfor eveu.'''The youth cast a hasty tjancte at the delibt h ratc
{orrou.gheli ti, who, it' he had obeyed the ait)t-!int expres.sionll of' his eye, would have lllolixvedl
thle party that xwas slowll y bearing the iwounde)i
tordls the Abbey y, bet.h lore he yietlded to his feel,
ingi, atndl antswered....