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

ti6S8 rnTl PIfLOT.
shaltl talso meet with such a ecleption as will be
colie ant old solditt!"
I( No, no," cried Cecilia, entirely thrown off her
guard by the manner and language of the veteran,
antd rushing into hlls antulls. " (t not out, tny uttclet go not into the terrible fi'ay, tmy kind, 111y good
unclet! you are o1t, you have already done it:or
than your duty; why should you be exposed to
danger?'
The girl i:s lmad with terror, BortroughePlif(l.t,"
cried the colonel, bendintg his glisttenintg eyes fondly
on his niece, " anld you *will have to fuirnish Imy
good-ftr-nothing, gouty old p)ersonl \wit a corpo-'
ral's guard, to Nwatch mly m'night-cap, or the sill,.
child wNvill have tan uneasy pillowt till the ssut raises
once mtore. Bu3tt -you (10 not stirt, sirt?')
" Why shtould I? "' cried the captain;- Miss
Plowdenl yet deigtns to keep me cotl)pany, a (d it:is
not iln the nature t on ntt of thle'. th, to d(esert
his bottle atnd tis standard at the samtle.ntenlt
For, to a ttrue soldiert thle stiles of a lady are, as
im1posilfng in tihe parlour, as tlhe ptresence ot his colotts int thte field.,
I! conttinue undlisturbted, Captainl florroughi -
clifft," saidr Katherine, 1" because I have not been
an in1habitant, fobr so )man1ly months", of St. I tith, and
not learned to know tilhe tunes vtwhich the wtind c1an t
playl amotng its chimneys andl pointed roofs.'T'he
noise'whlich has taken (Colonl Howard fr'on; }}is
seat, anlt which has so unnecessari ly alarmed llmy
collsin (licily, is nothing hmbut the./Ittlian harp of
the.Abbey sounding a doulble b}ass.",Thbe captain fastentlctd on her tomlp)osed counte-:nane, while she was spealking, a lotok of open adni-ration, that brought, though tardily the colour
more leeply to hel chleeks: land ho answtt red witt;