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

2' I o St............ n filI tAt ltl0 1 i0t Jt rruplet
Gr iffitlh''i I1arost;nloilu does ot dieserve that ctpitlhet, t 0houghtt tte ciiiiily carries tie ftlint oft (tity
to tt ttle ir tne. x(.trttave up at (iitccl ) ltr. litr.
1t)1, Ind( "et out of tIis ay las itt 1as possib)le.t
" A), You {lont t ive( t1110 order with half' thet
pileasure \tiltt thi1c1 I shall execute it; pult away
10ys.-....... the Ariecl shtal! never lay her bones i sutllc
a h;ard It)ed, it' can help it."'
As the: om011)1 n11tte of ti e s lchool:er Iutti ele tllhese
wordIs \Nithl t ellei i ( i)t (rVoiee his melil S p(oflfttlillO{1'ty shouteld, Zand the whale-lboat (arted away t(St tt
her o1,t1ni0i 1 and was1 s1)oo lost in thte ttlootmy
shh.dowi\s east tl i thle clitffs,
itn the meatn titte, the oati-sltn11n of tich att{e Wl'
tno)t idle, htut b)y stretulllts c(:t1orts thley' i')orctid thet
li'avy l oat rapidly throl{ the water', anld'iln a fi.tw
minuites shle ran alonsi':i(:. of the ftr:ig ate. l)Dri.wi
this period the pilot, in a voice whiel)l had1 lost all
the startlingl fitercetne s at td authorlit it l1t(l ntai-l'fested in his short dialogue. \ith ialr'tnstable,'e(tuested (l ri tith to reI)eat- to him, slowly, the ntames
of the officers that belonged to( his ship. Wllhen
the yomlt1 hiet-lteanttt hadt cotOlllied Nwith this request, he observed to his co()1pn.)ali.on —.
" All good r nei and true, Mir. Pilot; and titltugh
itis business ill which you are just now engagedt
ttnay e t lhazardous to antll l:4glishman, there nar'e
tlle'with us who w ill bet ra You. We leted yout
setvices, and as we exee c::.ct good faith firon you, so
shallwe o\ f (tlr it to you inl exchllange.'t'
( And -low (know yot thaltt i needl its exercise?
asked the p)ilot', ii a nlanlner tllat denoted a cold
indifltnellee tf o the s}.ubject.
"WVhy,y tlhoutgth you ttalk pretty goodt liElnglish,
for a native," returned (.lilftith, " yet you htave a.t