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

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bey. A tremendous rttush of men followed, whlo
dlro e i~t becfi-e th:emt.. the terriied friagment of::oriroughclifie's c.omman!(dI, thtat had 1heh4l the vestibtuil
and the outer room blcame fitlled wvith a dari tnas'
ft li human bodies.
" iet tlhem lhear ye, lads!' cried their le.idet
the Abbey is yomur ownI!'T'he roaring of a tenmpest wias not louder thIln
thle shout that burst fir'om his followers, who conw.iiiiued their hCcers, jtpea oil p.eal, until the very
r100o of the edlitice appeared to trernble cwith their
vibrations, Numterous daitk at-nd shag-.-y heads
wer Ie seen moving around the jpassage; sol cased
itn the iron-bount(i caps of tie friigate's boarders,
and others tglittering with the brazen ornameInts
of her 1marine guard. The sight of the latter did
not fail to attract thle eye otf Manual; who rushed
arngorig the thrtong, and soon re-appeared, fbllowed
by a trusty band of his ow vn enin, whlo took possession of the post held by the soldiers of Borrougheilifh,, while the dialogue was coutinued be
twetn the lea(erts of the adverse parties.'t'th's ftn Colonel Ioward1 had yielcdd to his
gucst, with a de p reverence ibr the plrincips of
military subordination, the finctions of a co:nnmarder, but, now that aftLit' appeared to changre
so m1aterially, he took on himself the right to queslion thesec intruders into his dwelling.
(By Nhbat authority, sit," thle Colonel demanded, " is it that you darre thus to invade the castle
of a subject of this realm )o you come backed
by the commnission of the lord lieutenant of the
rotunty, or has: your warrant the signature of It'is
r,:iTisty's Secretary fotr the Il'ome I)cpartiment'
"' I bear no commllission fr'om any quarter," r(.turnedl the Pilot; I rank only an humtble fbIllower' of tlhe tfriends of Amrctica; and having led