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

It )i.: T-flfTE PILOO1T.
n hlis Ai:tdden appclarance, alter so lorng an ab:sence,
th:d sttUSi(lcd, their tholihts'were rather occu)pied
by, the c(tlonsideration of what consequtCncsllt to
*ot'hers, might proeed frito his tarrecst, thant by any
reflections on the nidsthiput an'sa actual condition,
Seeluded fitot tihe observationts of any i range:
eyes, the two t1maidens indul ged their lf:i.t;s?
w\ithout i'estl. mint, aecordin to thei'$ several tet n.
tp:eraments. Kathelrine moved to an(id fin'o it tlhe
aaIrti'ntenlt, with fettverisht anxiety, win(' \: iss
-wtardl, by' eoncealing her co-untenance untder the}
revli ets of her luxuriant dark h1air, iand shadint: her
eyes with a lIir hand, seemetd to be willing to co0irn
t1lmune ith her tho'lughts 1mlore quietly.
B-atrstable cannot bet fi' distantlt,' sati( thle
%rmierl after a fowy minutes had passed; " for he
vero: a e t would haVe sent that child on such ant' r
rand, by himself)!'
Cecilia raised her tnild, blue eyes to the counte
nattne of her cousin, as she aII Inswered. tt..... a:
" - All thoughts atf an exchangle ust tnow NVbe
ets wvii be' hIeldt as pledg:es to answer fix b the life
of!)ilton."
(" Calt the wretch be dead? t or i it merely a
threat, or soeic device of that urchin? hec is a for.ward child, and would not hesitate to speak and
ct botlly, ot emlergenlcy.
"1 ie is dead:!' returned Cecilia, veiling her
L:e 4:':again, i n horror; " the eyes of the boy, his
whole c-ou ttenance, t'onirhmed hIi is wo:rds I tfeiar,
Kathlerinle, that Mt,. 1Barstable has suffered hi is ie -
sentirct to overome his isretion when h
lcarned the t'reactlery of i)illon; sturely, surely
though the hardl usages of twar may justitl) so
tdreadftiul a revenge on an: enem'y, i was unkind to
forget the' condition of'l hi s own friend:..