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

CHAIPTERI XXV.
Afe-trcury....' I pertmit tho tohbo Sgoh a aga1n.
Dr-bpint
W\s must leave the two adventurers wA inding
their way among the broken )iles, and vent uri- ng
)oldly beneath ithe tottering arehes of the ruin, to
aceontpatny tue reader, at the same hlour,' within the
more condortiable twalls of the Abbey; wh ere, it
will be renmemnbered, liorrogotuiw b was left, int a
condition of very equivocal ease. As the earth
had, however, in the interval, neatly run its daily
ro.ud)(i circumstances bad( intervened to release
the soldier I'on- his confinellent....and....a no onle,
Ignorant of ti th fat, wvould suppo.se, that thle gento illan who was now seated at the hlospitable
noard of Colon(1Al towvard(l direeting with so
mituch (liscrettionl, t}he energies of his astltcators
to thle delicaieis of t(he east, Coutld reald, int }his
careless air and n sdilng vsa, (bat those fora-,.rs of nature liad been so recently condetmned,
hfor' lur long hours, to the mortificatiot ot discussing! thu blat ren sutbject of his own V Sord-hilt.
Borroughelifile, however, maintainelld not only his
tusuat. post, but his we.ll-earneld reputation at the
table wsith his ordlinary Coolness of dlelieanout
ft ough, at timtes th.ere were Ileeting sinilev, that