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

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- ittlht VWgflaean it lur' I dtl;tid. air
LAft.s lier A~< arm, exposp'd ad tbtao.roe-.
Who: 1F, Fear, tii gha.attly train c an, ait
And lc:;,k not nmadly iild, ltike thet?"
ti' is certtain that TI'om Co(f0ln hatid d(evised ttt
settledl )plattf of operations, whlen lie issued fiom
thie.apartment. of -lto'rouignetlifle if vwe except a
most resolute deter-mination t6 make the best of
hlis way to the Arild, and to share her fit\e, let it
be either to sink or' swunitt,,Butt this was a rcsoutt -
tion muchi easier ol'rmc( 1by the honest setama
than l teetted itn tis present situationl. e wtoul
have ftund it less d(ittcult to extricate a vesse.l
fr'ont the (angerous shoals of the " Devil's Grip,"
than to thtread the mazes of the labyrinth of
pa.3sag,,es, gallerries, and apartme nts) in which he
found bhimnsclf involved. lie ertmemhel'red, as lie
expre'ssed it to himnself, in a low soliloquyt, "to
have run into a narrow passage f'oom thle mainlI
thlanltel, hut whethier' e liad sheered to the starboard or tlarboamd hand," was a imaterial fact,
thatt hadt entirely esap)ed his mermory.'/Tom i was
in that part of tle building that (Colonel t.Howamtrd
hiad (lesignatied tas the " cloistctls,'' and itn whichll
luckilty for himn, heI was tbt little liable to encounter
any toe the roomt occupied by Borroughelifle
being the only onet- in the entire wing that w\as