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

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by wivhrateever names the customt of the times attahed0 to thi e different attendants of s -vessels of wvar
[1ad the tfears of the ladiles themselves (been. Meonsutlltel th(-e ff'igates latunch would hlaVe tieen Steleted fiot their use, oln acount of its size; hutlt
B arnst able, wI ho wo Id 5 t have thb'oght suet ta c(hoice
ont his par't h}uniliating to 1his lguestS ordelred the
lot, low bargIe of ( a i)tai aMunson to he drawn
ut')oil the sandi it )being peeutiarly thie boat of }o.
ourt.- T.ie hands of fifty Imen were altlied to t he
task, anlt it was soon aM1nnounced to Colonel Howarvd antd his wards, that the little vessel Xwas rteady
tbr thelir r:eeeptioi Manuf(al had halted on tlhe
summit of the elifs with the whole )0boy of'the
marines, where he wtas lbusily temployed in lp)osting
1)ickets and sentinels, and giving tthe necessary inst-ru0etio8 n t his } ls men1 to cover~ thie tembarkat ion of
tile seamen, i-6n a style that he, coneeived to:: bhe altogeathe r rmiitary. iThe mass of tIhe common1 prisxon' -
-eris, inclu4ditngl the inferior domestits of the Al:-bey,
xII: thle ment o iorroughe ltf eritt e a lso hel i
t.e same jilace, t: nder a suitab tele g an-; buit Colo-:
niel: iXlowafdl and his cIompanionl atttended )by tie
ladies and their own mai(lds, had desen'1ded the'ttggedt path to the b.acthl, and were standing i)tassively on the san-dsa wvh- n thle inteiligenee that the
boat waited foi th}d w s announce(d.
" WherX e is he?' asked Alice D )unscombe, turn
8ing her head, as: iIf anxiotusjily searctte.}Ihing for some
other than those arounld ier.
" tWhere is who?t" inqui'red B ar insttable 1 s; -we
iare all h tere, and the boat waits."
"And will i e teat -me.......even mc frmi l tle home
ot fmy illnilncy i thte lad of my bi rth and my aft
fletions!'"
"I knowt not of whom01 you speakI) muadam, bhti