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

but, after following the train of her ownVl thouhttl"ts
tn silent enjoyment for a moment tonger, she seem.
ed to yield to their drollery, and lautrlhed, until hter
dark eyes flasled with mlerrimtent. Cecilia (lid not
assume the severe gravity with which shie some.
times en'w}deavour>ted to repress, what she} thoughit,
the unseasonable mirth of ther cousin, aitnd tb}he wvon.
detinrg Griffith fzancied, as hte glanced his eyet fiolr,
one to the other, that ihe could discern a suppressed
smile )playing among the composed features of A.lic(e
Dunscombe. fIathetrine, however, on sn ucteeded
in repressing the plaroxysm, and, with a!n air of int
finitely comict gravity, she replied to the remark )of
the soldier
I think I have heard of such a process in nauttical affttirs as towing; lt but I must ap-,peal to M'1r,
rifilith lfbr the co'rrectless of tlhe term?"
(You could not s)eak \with mnore accuracy,) returtned tte young sailor, with a look that senltt tlhe
conscious blood to the tetlples of the ltadly, though
you had tmadie m1armine l' terms your situdy.T''T'Ihe prfl-eossion req1uires less thought, ltpe'haps
tha.1n you imagine, sir; but is this towing often
done, as (sCaptaitn Xorroughcliffe.......I beg his tpardonl
-as the MAonks have it, sub silentio P"
pare me, fair lady," cried the captain, "t ad
se will esta:blish a comlact of mutual grtta ce t youU
to firgive mty leatrningt, anld I to Suppress my Sulspicions."
tSuspicions, sir, is a word fthat a ltady ms
eAnd tefl e t(:fiancesl a challentge tlat a soldi ett
nevter reeive; so, I tlist submit to talk English,
thought thej ithetets of tle church were mily c0mpa:nions. I suspett that: Mfiss Plowdenl has it in hett
power: to explain the imanner of MrJ. C( hristophelt
)illon's deitarture."