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

turtne also, Int tie franttknesiis of mly tIispositkiOt. > ( )tto
knew r) Iyrtanktlness, liarnstable), but too,well ) I
conissessed to 1him, afert thle tddefeat of the u tit ul -
"t. tnpt Griffith made t o carry off Ce cilia, it atrolinra that I had bt-een t lish enough to enter into
sto vaeak promise to the brother offlicer who hadl
acottt: antic: the younttg saior in his traitoroiaus visits to the/t ilanlttion. l-eito! t I somretimles think
i wt.ouldt have been better thu us alla iI' your ship hadl
etver\ e chlased into thl e river. or after shet was
it're, if Griffith had made -no attclp)t t'(.o renw\ }is
cttutittanctae witl tly ioutisin, Ihe col(onel rec-eived tlhe intelligence l as such a.g5trdialtn wouldt(..
Iuhe<ar that his ward wNas about to tlrow away thirty
thousand dollatrs andl hCrse'l.If a trlaitor to his kint
aud (coutntry. I dttefeinded ytou stoutly' said thltt
you had no. king,: as the tic was dissolved.; that
Aotr(tica w-as your c(ou lttry, and that your prof. s-:iot was honoutrable; butit it wvould not all dolt
t[e called you rebelt; tthat I was used to..-fesaiid yon1 were a traitor; that, in hlis vocabula-t
t'y, amountls t'o t1h saune thint. lie e(ven hintt:I
that you were a cow\ard; and tltat I mknew to tbet:
fatlse, and dicd not hesitate to tell hint so. 4i'e used
fifty opt)'-0'i)io(-)us terms that I canlnot aretmetl)er,
tott: an-otsmg others Awere tlhe beauttiftil epitthets oi'
t isort anizer, t leveller,'. tt' deocrit' a ndf t j tob}itt,') (I thope he did not mtii an a monk! ) tn:s'orttt,
}e acted Colonel Howard in a r'a'ie. But as'ttis
domlinion does:not, like that of his ftiavourite: kintgs,
%on}0tinuet fri-om 1tenteration()i to generlation, and one.-shl}ort ~year w.'Xil:l release men fr-om his iow elr an(
leave e mistl rss of my own actions, that. is, itf
yo)r tline promtise:.s Care to be believedt I bore., it
4ll very well. 1 1, c(in-t resolved t. o suffer ntty tthiot
butt lnartytrdlom, rather thlan abalndon Cecilia. he}, I
dtftar.gi, }has Ituch iuoll re to distt'ets her t'han I al