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

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1m1oxre worthy feelin gsl..'but)tt I eal-nnot )ermit you
to go alonet'.
l' r fee we part, John,) she said firmly, " and
fio' ever!i"''is fior ti le happiness of both-, for I
fear we have but little Sin conmmnl' She gently
wrtt<e*sted hert hatnd friom huis grasp, and ontce olthre
bidding him adieu, in a voice that was nlearly itl
audibtle she turined and slowly (disat)1peared, m 0ov -
ing, with lingering steps~, in the direction of the
Abbey.
The ltlirst rimpulse of tile Pilot was, certainly, to
fbollow, and insist oin seeing her(t onl the wtay; but
t-Ihe thlie uslec o f tie guarad on tti cElifi at that molment
ent ftrth its martial strains, a Nnd tnhe whistle:of' the
boatswain was t heard w inding' its -shrill ieall among
thle rocks in those notes that hIs f)ractised ear
wetll uderstoodtood o be thle last siginal for elmbark)Obedient to tthe smmons, this singular lman in
wihose })Pbreast t:he lnatural fet:t lings, that w\ere nowI
mon the eve of a violentt eruption, had1'0 so lontg bee
smothered by the visionary expectations of a wild i
ambition, and letrhas of fiere rlesentments, put —
suet1d his couitse, it (feep) abstr.tction, towards the
boats. lte wafs 8soon met byl thle soldiers; of fBorrougheifi'e, (depl(rived: of their tarms, it is true,
but unguarded, an d retiurning peacefully to theirl
quarters. The mind of the Pilot, hap)p:'iyt for t1he
liberty of these men, was too much absorbed in
his p)eetliar reflections, to note thiis aet of (: ritfith's getnerosity, nor (did he arou1se tfrom his 1musing until his sttep}s were arrested by suddenly encountering a huran figu re in thle pathl-way A
light tap) otn his slhoulder was tihe firstt mark of re.cognit ion he lreei. vel, when Borrougheliffe vwho
stood before him, s:aid.......
It is evident, sir, firlom what has passed this