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

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to atce wvith yotl Vj)arents, Itny childtien, fo l t{ie
insti whto dy)ing, expects, n1ot to meet vworthy
[.t1gh Griffi th anld hotest Jack Plo-ewdens in heave,{,
can ltve tno clear view of the rewa\-ds that bel8og
to live|s of fiithf il, service to the country, or of gallalt loyalty to thlte Kingt 1 1 trust no onte can justty say, that I ever firgot the delicacy duet to youtt
getle sex; but it is 1o 110 Ionment for idl c rciflmonlYy
vhen t ntte is stortening into tminutes, an1 heavyt
duties remain to he (lischarged. I could not (die
in l)ace, children, were 1. to ceav'e you htere in tlhe
widle ocelllan,l I 1i1( altnost said in the wvidet wNorld,
witotut that p:)rotection iwhich becotmes your tendie' years, and still mtorte tender characters. If it
has: pleased G(od to.'r1emo0ve your guardlian, let his
Illiee be su1)ptIied by th}ose lie wtills to succeed
Ceefia nto loltnger hesitlated, but s}he arose slowly fiom her knites) and oftfred her hand to Griffit h
witht atl air of fot-ed, ressination. K(atherine subtiltte t(o led b(- y d n stahbl to le stl t h side, tnd
tIeI ct,'aplaain whlo had b.een an afflected listener to
he dialoguet in obeditence to al expressive signal
fir'om tile eye of (t'itith, opened the pratyver book
from which ht e bhad, b een gleatzning consolationt ift0
the dying pm asterl i and coiMMienccl reading, in ttemblMting tones, the nalrr ]iarie service. The vo ws
were l),:)ioute ntl- by the weeping bret s io vtoices
iot'e distitict arid al diA}e than lI they had b)eert
utteired amniid th-e gay crowds that ~usually thrIontg a
bridal; fo thou t'lt they wetre tie irtrceaimahle
wovti{s tllt l.)ontiud t1hem fir cve to the tmen, whWose.,
poevr-tover thii,' f-eeings they thus pirolaimed to
the world, the reserve of mtaiden d(iffidletnce was
tfst in one engossinug emotion of sttolemnitiy, ereateud by t he awfuil l)-I rseit(t1 i11 whichlt tlhey stoodtl
When t}., I ec dit t.ion wants r lonouniced. th:ie hlead