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

-thoward susp-:cts tvho You really ar e. lie wts ye.'.y tiu nute int his inluiti es, I hear and since thlen,
thas estahblishedi a sort of' g:arisolt iln the house, tntt
dter tle ptt(ntfllee of deftie+ lit it aailnst matratdiersl
like those who are said to have laid my I 4ady Setkkirkc under eontribtution.
Now, tundersttand itne, IBarnstable; on no account would I have you t isk yourself oin shore
r' ~ithe munst the-re be blood spilt, if you love met
bitt that tyou ntly cno:tw what su't of a flta'lf we
arte confitle(l in, and'y lwholl( sutt1tottmded, I will
desctrite ()bot our -lison tt tlhe gartisonl. 1'h )
vwholte built in is otf stolle and not to he ait etteipt-:'ld with sh iht Iealtn.s. It haws witdtini's and iurn.ing,1 both int ernall y atldt extertnally, tliat wotuldl re-titure n0orl'e skill thaln I possess to matt1ke intelltiittie; but tle rooms we i nhabl~)it arte in t }me ti)pper(t or
thirtId floor of a wing, that you may call a towfer, if
you are int ra i'otnanttie lmtt od)tl, bt w\\hiXcth, int tlruith is
tnotlhing but Fa wing. Woull to (GoId I could fly
Nwith it I f any accident should bring tttl iti sight
of the. (I\weltintg, you tvill know ourt ootts tlte
t'ree smt oky vanes tha t w}ifille about its!pointed(
t:-ooi', and also, by the winllows int that stor x)eintl"
occasion ally open. O)pposite to otlur windlo\ws att
the d(istance of' italtf a milte is a ret irted( unlitequentted ruin, concealedt itt a great Itmeasure, tiou observation by a wood, and afllrding none of the l)est
<ae:tomtmodatims, it is true, but s helter in soome of
its, vaults otr (aparttin-e.nts., atre e )aelin to th' e explanatio n s you o nce gave Me ol ihi,-'
sslj[:)jet, a set of' small sip;talst of'f (lihtrc.tttly colouri -
ed sillks, and a little dic(tiolti)ar'y of all the ihltrastes
that I ctuild intatine as utistt to refert to, htt'u)etly
numberll -ed to eor'iSlP)ondl with thte key and the
tlawgs1 all of wh})ich I shall send ytou with this letter.
Vou.must pl)'(pare you(t)r ol n \ ftlags,s and of (ortise