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

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ted by this remark, betlort she Iurs.eic thl thlis.
comrse. But soon shaking off the weakness, she
added, with a rigid adherence to that: course whtich
she ibelieve(d to be her dtutyI...' And now, John0, that'you ihave latnded, is the
Ibrealking up of a:>etacefi f:tmnily, and the violence
ye have shown towards an aged man, a fit exploit
fto or le ~wh>ose( o(Ibject is the glory of wvtieCl e,have
spoken'
i'lthinll you that I have landedt attnd placed lny'ii- i(n tle hanlds of ty enemies, fS r so unwortl'y
tt o)jett! No, Alice, mlly motive fto this under
takinrn has ieen disapIpointed, anid therefolre will
ever remain a secret ftiom the woriltid. But duty
to tlly cause has plomp ttc the step) whichl you so
ulttilt1inkingly condemnt'lThis C(ol)onel Itowart(
tias s$OlUe consideration withl tilose i) power, and
will answer to exchangre f tba better mlatn. s for
his w(ard's, y(ou) forget their hlome, thteiWr magicalt
ht}ome, its, in America uilss, indeedi t Ihey ftind
theW n eatrer at hand, ut tlet the proud flag of a
frii"ate, that is now waitintg for them in tlhe ofhfling' "
": ou talk of a frigatc!U' said Alice, witht1stdden interest in the suljee-. tIs shle your only
mealns of eseapilng friom your ellnemies?;- Aice l)utnseomnbe lhas taken but little heed of
fpassinrg events, to ask such a q(uesttion of moe t" re
turnet( thle haughty Pilot.:The question wouldl
havet s8ounttded mtore, discreoetly, hadf it )eetn,'is tshe(.
the ontly vessel itt you tyhatt your.tt elne'miest will
htave toescape fieom:'"
c:- Nay, I cannot measure my language t tsuch a;X(moment," conti xnuedtl I Alice, with (a still strongeCt
exhlibitiont of anxiety. "I t;was my brfrtunle to
overhear a part of a )plan that was inlttlendtd tc
destroy, by sudden means, those vessels of A 1me
cica that were:in our seas.':