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

CH LA PTEIR XXX i:lls only plot was tlru.:-tvtat tlmuch provoked, INo r:ais-el hia vengefilt arm againit Ahi. countr i A,~ici~ Dul)u-seoN lmnTa remain(ed on the sands, watchlin the diark spot that was soon hid amid the wvaves iIn thel obscurity of night, and listening, wvith.ittelancholy interest, to the regulatedt sotundfs of the oars, \whtich were audible lontg after the boat had been blended with the gloomy outline of th:e eastern hoizon,. - When all traces of her dieparted ir'iends Nwt'ere:t to be fountd only in her own recotllec.. tions. she slowly tturned fi'om the sea, and hasteniug" to quit thet btstutintt thronmag that were pl'eparint, fort, the enrolneation of Ite rest of th}e party, shel A..scenC:1ded tihe pathi that conducted her once tmlot to the sutmmiit of thtost cliffs along vwhicht she hnad so oftet'0otd, na(lt azing at t lhe boundtlss ccelement htat washed their base Nwith sentsations that mnight bhave been )etulttar to her t ow situltitn. The soljtiers of orr''ougtheltiff', who wvere sta tiotned at the helad of the tp:ass, respeci.tttlly made way; nor dlid any of the' sentinels of MAanual h!eeld her rtjiring tizur, until she approached the reari pgnat'd tof thtt' m tines,'l'ho i'tere cotnmmalnded ytt their ig it l I. aptl, tatin in l er si.

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The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.
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Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.
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