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

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mt ay find hter ast d.lififul,; i:t t wiai:: as she Ihas beeni
hitcrto, as a ward and dt a isul)icect.'.atherine had yl h hpiel'led her hand, passively, to
hl:er lovter, and suiflerd himt to lead her more into
the circle than Stshe hatd ibeftO' beenl; but now she
thvrew off hits arti and shltki-nt. aside the dark, curls
which -sh:e had ratherl invited to fill in ldisorder
narond her brow, sihe iraiseld her fice and lookced
j})routly up, witht an e(ye that sp)arkled withl the
w-pirit of its mistress, and a thee thtat grewv piaet with
rtlortion at teah ittmoment, as she proceededtt..
Gen ( tletmen, the onte tmay be as tready to reetlVe ats the other is to trjeet; tit Itas the I daughtir of John)l Plowden nto voice in this cool disposal
of 1er p e'rson? If her gutartian tires of' )er preseteie, othe(:,r hal)itatlions may te tbund, withrout inIAlieti)~g, ssv're a penalty 0on this gentlemlatti, ast
to (:comltei in-m to p1)roaide for her aceo. ) it(datio
in a vessiel whi e l must tl.e already straitened t}i
SheI tiuried, an rejoined her cousi n with such
tan ai of' maidenltityt resetttnient, as a young womant
wovuld le apt to discaveci, wNht o found herself the
sl)jeet of'm1attimonial t arrangementl itltout her
Ow. tf elin s heing at all consulted. Barnstatble
who kntyewv tutt little of the windings of the fenit:ale
ticarltt o wt low nelcssiar'y to his mistress, notwitflv
stat adin- hIer Irevtios lI tl dielaat ions, the eounlte1t I O f C ciia was, to any dteciidel and open act
in his, ti'omtr, stood in sttpidl ond(elr at her (ieftarsation,. lT:e eoult not cotnceive that a Nwoman who
n!ad already ventured so much in seiret in }tis h. ealf, a I I who I had s often avowed her w(akn\\t (ss.:ho uld shlritink to delare it again, at such a erisis,
though thme eyes of a u1tniverse Nwerle o0l i her! Ie
looked fi1oi onel of the piiarty to the other, and tmet
ina very fiee an expression of delicate (reserve, x