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

middle size inI statre, but his tfour was muscular
ndI aithetic) exhiibititng thet linest:wproportions of
manly beauty. Ilis Lie ap)teared rather charac —
terized by melanicholy andll thought, thtan by n that
de:termined decisio0n wh\Nich lhe hittId so powerftchlly
displayed itn the mom tlents of their most (xttiMi
tlanlger; 1ti.bt G1riffith well knew, that it fcotil atsc
CxShibit looks of the fiercest impatience. At ptoe
sent,:it ap)ear t d, to tite ctrious youth, w\hte(n (. ut.
palred to tle glitnpses Ie bared cnaught tby the lig htt s
of their lanterns, like the ocema at rest, contritast(i
wit)l the wateirs aitrounld hi. The eyet s of tile fpi.
lot rested oil the deck, or whvien they did \ander,
it Awas with uneasy and rap(id glances. The Ilargelpee-jaeket, that coimealet(d most of his othler attire,
Nvwas a s a roughly t rade, and of' tateials as ctoase,
as that woirn by the meanest seaman in the t' essel
and yet, it did not scape the inqtnisitive gaze (of
the youngtl lieutenant, that it was totrnt with an ait
of leatness l tl and caret- that wvas altogether nitl tlsual itn
men of his profei:ssio, The exaiiiiinatiton of (i'ffith iilded here, ftr thle near ap.proach ofT tlhe Aritel
atMtracted the attention of all on thel deck of the
fiiga tot to the ( onveisation that Nwa-s about. to ptass
betw0een1 their respective coninanders.~
As the little shooner trolled alon, undetr Ittheir
stern, C.apt ain i rut(so1n dlirect (ed his sut}ordinate t(o
leave his vessel, and repair on board tt le ship. As
soo as the t order was rcceivedt the Alrilt romundedto, aild drawintt atltad intot tlhe: smooth water oc- asioncd ~ I thy h u"e f-' Ire tharc tt protected her:fiu'from
thel gale, the wvIale-bloat tais a'again launched firott
her decks, and mtlnnuued by the same eirew that hlaeid
landed onil those s.ho tes whiclt were tnow faintly
tisclerned far to leewvard looIdingr like blue clouds
en the skirts of the Oeeatt.
XWhetn Barnstable had enteroied his boat, a femw