The Pilot

Chapter 31

"His only plot was this--that, much provoked.

He raised his vengeful arm against his country."

_Thomson_.

Alice Duncombe remained on the sands, watching the dark spot that was

soon hid amid the waves in the obscurity of night, and listening, with

melancholy interest, to the regulated sounds of the oars, which were

audible long after the boat had been blended with the gloomy outline of

the eastern horizon. When all traces of her departed friends were to be

found only in her own recollections, she slowly turned from the sea, and

hastening to quit the bustling throng that were preparing for the

embarkation of the rest of the party, she ascended the path that

conducted her once more to the summit of those cliffs along which she

had so often roved, gazing at the boundless element th