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

U('clct',S) now begIan to glate t'(cross the t1(ti' of'
thie I(' Otrsitt le' r| Jliemtrctd his otwn prognostics ont th}e \v'eatht, arld the hellfless situatliot oi:f
tli(:, sc oe(rA l (sh. dt ept'ived of trl tor }tti hallt htt crew,
atd left to. tie keepintg f' a hoy, l) ite hort conittainder lims i elf was on thte tve of captivit-y.'Tl
tiretlclther fi.it lriom his lap to) the tfloort, his hedtad
siti)k oin his klees, his tace Was conceatt led Ietwc(.wt
his broad patins, andt it spite of every e.:flt't the
o1( se.-arnlat cout 1 t make to conec all his emotion, hi
ti'fy n'groanl.d alottud.
Xor; a motnlel-t it tihe.behtte: fbeelings ofi' BorroUti)ttheifl~ lt)re railed- and h}e paused, a.s lho, witness(ed this exihiition of' s.tuftl'.itn in o(ie who:e()
head - twas alt -adyS slrintkled with thte lltrks of t titm e
tbut his Iha-"ts, and the imjiressio(ns lei- hy tI(- Tt
year s passedC in collecting victig ms:to: the wars, soon 0t
re uttmted thetir aseente(lti and tithe. rIcc ritiinv,
ot.fl':er' (ttifii'ently addr essed himself to an itl prov':\emnt of Iris advlantage.
I pity, fi'in no'y h'eart, ttle 1)oor lads whi)on
1i ittfien: 1 nsttf l notionts of ltty may tti-ve
a('tI'st'ly, atl-1 w}ho will tilhus be: taken ik t atr(s
agait lst theni sot' becrei l ut as they are fi)und int
tih: ve- y islandl of IBritain, they mu11st bhomae examplhtesto (I:et' otliters. I fe t r, tlhat unless tiley
caIn maIke their l))eaee with governIt u1ent tle y will
[tdl hoe co:tdettnood to death."
"Lo t le themltn make'1l(:i( l)n eac: e wifth (:od. t}hen.
youtr governo'C ttnit c(an do ut alittle to'cleat tilhe!t
accoutt ollof'i a anI t lhos ( wa\tchl is ti'p tr this vorll.''
"'ut, 1.) matking their peae with ithl those wvl
have thet p r't', th itr lixves may hte spared,'-(l) said
the. c.aputaitla) in atI lthiti;, with kfeettl e es, tihe ofi'u:c't
hism \or(1; tro'(tltul eed on thle cock\wains.' It njiattt?.j's it little w t ien a man hears the
"itseo.'..t inte) his aimmtttttock d(lown lor' tti tttls