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

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pianatioat to AtCi of yot0, that I \twould tmuch r-iatter
let alone.":
" Of 1nt! ask whvil-at you wvill, or how you wNill
am a cal eless, unthinkinitg f tellow Miss Plowlden
b)ut to you tI hzav e little to answer fo. unl ess a
fi)olish sorlt of adoration ble ai offence against youtmtr
tmer'its."'
Barnstable felt the little hand that vas supported on his arm, pressing the limb, as Katheli0ne replied, in a tone so changed tiomin its fotn;ierm
freced leyvity, that te startedt as the first soundls
reached his e1ars. " Merry has brought in a horrid
treport!" she said; t I would lI ( totlif bIelieve it
untrue! but the looks of the boy, and the absence
of D)illon, both contirm it.)'
" Po)or Merry! ihe too has ftallen into th:e trap, t
butt they shlall yet find one who is too ttcunnit t)i
tlhem. Is it to the flte of that "wretched D)illon
that you allude?"
e w tas a wttct," continued Katherine, in thle
samte voic, "'tand he deserved much punishment at
your hands, B-arnstabll; but litfe is the gift of )od,
and is not to be taken whenever human vengeance
Wot0lct appear to require a victim."t
h- His t clife,: was takeln by 1himn who xbestowe'd it,")
said the sailor. Is it Katherine 1Plowden who
Would susl.)ect me of the deed of a dastard U'
I do not suspect yout...... I id not suttstcet Yout,
cried Katherine; "- I will never suspect any evil of
you again. You arfle 1n ot, you cZannot )be atngr).
vwith mlie, larnstable? 1had you heard tle eruei
suspiteltons of )'my cousin (eCellia, and had yout
inagination been busy in IportIlrayig your wrongsi,,
za1d the temptations to forget merey, like mine, even(i)
while m1 y tontgue' denied your agenlcy in the uspiected d1tlee., you wotll.: you would at least have
tearneld Ihow much easierx it is to def(1nd thiose: WV: