The Pilot

Chapter 26

_Mercury_. "I permit thee to be Sosia again."

_Dryden,_

We must leave the two adventurers winding their way among the broken

piles, and venturing boldly beneath the tottering arches of the ruin, to

accompany the reader, at the same hour, within the more comfortable

walls of the abbey; where, it will be remembered, Borroughcliffe was

left in a condition of very equivocal ease. As the earth had, however,

in the interval, nearly run its daily round, circumstances had

intervened to release the soldier from his confinement--and no one,

ignorant of the fact, would suppose that the gentleman who was now

seated at the hospitable board of Colonel Howard, directing, with so

much discretion, the energies of his masticators to the delicacies of

the feast, could read, in his careless air an