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

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pt)roceeded in silence to theni hopt.)eless,;t duty.f
clearin>g the wreeks.?vt'ey Ke.ye tfoilowedt tho
fltatintt timbet's, as the waves Swlept thetn atway
fitoit tlhe vessel, with a sort of fe:verisht euriosi t,
to witlness the effect lrodutced(l lb their collisioJn
with those rotks tflat lay so ftarfully near theml
but tog l)ettefre the sp)ars entel(re thle wide bortdet
ft fbam, they were hid biot view t)y the tttrious
elellmet in which they loatetd It was, now, felt
by tlhe, \uwhole crew\ of the Ariel, tlhat their last
meatns of slale.ty hadtl been adopted, t and, at e(tachtl
detspcerate and headtlong pttunge the vtesscl took,
tIto the hosonm of the seas that rolled up ttn hel
forecasti.c, thte antxiolts seameual thought they (-'(.)ld
perceive the yielding (of tihe ionl thlit tt -dung
to thte bottomt or could hear the violent sturge of
tihe pIarting strands of the. cable, that still ield
them to their attrtllors. V:ile the mintlus of the
sailorsl \were agitat.ed with the fitint hopes tIhat
natd }b)eeti (exvcitc.fd bylt the.~ i etn()V(:i!II[ltS tof tfeir
schlooner, l)illon had be:n permitted to: wtande
about thee vessel utinutieed' his rolling eyes, hardl
treathting, altnd clencherd,:: Ihandts, excitedl nt. obstrvitiotn among i tlte men, whottse thougthts were yet
lwelttin-g on the mtean: of' safety. itut now, when
wit I a sort of firenzied dc. esf':.ra'ttlon h he would fi-.T
l(ow the retiring wvate~rs h'donr tihe ieck:s, iand vtltctture!his p( eros(t ttigh ttIe I",Ttlo) thltt had 1 olloe('tt(ud
arttttnd and on tihe glt of tthe cockswamltt, gllance
af fierce (:, o:Fot stllen v(1ng (.ant e xvere ( (es ast hit.lih,
thfat convey(e.d th threats of,a itlutr. e ti'at he It as t o'o
tiltmuch a.gr(-itated(l to utndctIstand.
If )ye iare titred of this Tvorld, tfhou l youm
time, like m1y own, is p robably but short inl it,'
said'Lto to int, as 1eC passed the cockswailn i)u
one, Of his tutlrs, o" n'ot ca: l o ftirwa'rd amtont
tle men; bitt if yte httve tneetd oft thte mtm01tt11,n te