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

T'IE PILOTr. 41'7.arnstable. Youtti ai very tol ratly pro videad wnitn
a (twelinl, il the r'tin; andtl X sut)pose certai l)Ire
tdatory schemes are to be adopted to make it ltabitahite! St. lRuth is certainly well suitp)lited ith
the necessaryt articles, but whe-ther we should not,)( shortly refmloved to the CaJstle at Yorki, oir the
gaol at Neweastle, is a question that I put to youitdiseret.rion."
W(tNr yield you r thoughts to sutch silly siubjects, loove1ly trifler!"' said Barnstal.le, " whern
thel time and, thel occasion both turge us to be in
earlnest F-?"
"I Tt is a wtomant's province to be thriftiy, and( to
look after the cotnforts of dlomestic life," retuttined
his mistiress; t' anlt I would discharge, my ftttctions with credit. But I feel you ar ye txedl, for, to
see yottr datrk countenanlce is out of the question,
onl such a nilghlt. When (10 you tl)opose to commrence housekeeping, if I should yield to your
proposals?"
" I havo not concluded relating my latns, ant
your provoking witt annoys me!'The vessel I hart
taken, will, untqulestionalyt), come into the land, as
t~he gale dies; atttnd I intend akingo- my escape i
her, after beating this Englishttan, and seeui ing
the lib)etrty of AMiss }tvoward nid yourtseltf I could
see the fiigate in the offli-ng, even before we left
the culifs-."
hfist eertauiinly 8sottundsf better t" rejoinetid Kcathiedine) in a manner that indicated s8he wlas 1musin g
on their pr-ospects i;' and yet there may exist some
difficulties int the way that youl ittle suspect.')
( I)itficulties there arc- nonet thcre..ii. 1
(Speak not irreverently of t'he tma zes of love.
AMr B1arnstable. 0 When wvlas it ever know-n to exist
tlnettered or untembarrassed? even~ I have an ex0S