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

454 Twit::Pr.tfoT.
tile colonel:. etstowedl oln his fellow-prisoner, wvas
returned by that officert witht an attempt at risibl,
lity that tabundlntly betoketned the d isturbled state
of lis leeItinas. Tl he two, howtever, suctceeded inl
So tar matlitntatting')appearanee s, tas to contemplate
the succeedin. move eltents of thla. onttiuerors withl,a sultieitent decgree of composnle.
The colonel steadily and coldly rejected the advantcs of his nielt), xwho bowed t 1meekly to his wvill,
and relinqukished, lor the present, the hope tof
bringing hiim to a sense of his injustice. She,
h]owever, employed herself in earnest, to give siuch)
directions as were Ilnecessary to enforce the t es-()Iution she haid avowed, aMl int this untexp}ec.ted
Cimpl)oymenit she fotund both a re'ady andtt a willing
assistan)t in }ther coutsin)'Tie latter, ultnknown to
MNiss 1.oward, had, a, in anticipation of some suchlt
event as thle )present, long sinttc e ma(let) in secret:,
all those p)reiparations whicth night become neees.
s ay to a.sulden fli ht friom thl Abbey. lit ton)
juiction witit her loverl then,) who, perceivinglt tihat
the p)lain of the' Pilot was filurthering his oIgwn views,
(deemned it mlost wvise to fobret his quarrel wAvith that
rnmysterious i ndl|3 ividualt she flew to point out tlhe
mea(xns of securing t'hoso articles which wet-'e already in prepartiattion. Barnstable and Mo erryt ac.contpantied her li(ght s teps among the narrowt tlark
passages of tle.Abbley, w\Nith the uttmt-lost deliglht;
the.lo,nnerl trepeatedly apost ro)hrinzllng her wit and
h)eauty, and, indeed, allf f hert various merits, and
thte latteir hlaughing, and tindtutlint those buoyant
spirtits, that a boy of his yearsts and reflteion might
be supposed to feel, itn such a horrid scene. PIt
wvas fotrtunate foi r her cousin, that::Katherint had
possesse(d so much forehouglht, for the attention
of Cecilia Howard was directed i})ueh morle to the
comforts of he tluncle, than to those which were