Cooper's Novels The Heidenmauer Author:James Fenimore Cooper Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MILES WALLINGFORD. CHAPTER I. "But I'll not chide thee; Let shnmc come when lt "ill, I do not call It; I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot. Nor tell tale... more »s of thec to high-judging Jove; Mend when thou canst"— Lkar. It is almost as impossible to describe minutely what occurred on the boat's reaching the Wallingford, as to describe all the terrific incidents of the struggle between Drewett and myself in the water. I had sufficient perception, however, to see, as I was assisted on board by Mr. Hardinge and Neb, that Lucy was not on deck. She had probably gone to join Grace, with a view to be in readiness for meeting the dire intelligence that was expected. I afterward learned that she was long on her knees in the after-cabin, engaged in that convulsive prayer which is apt to accompany sudden and extreme distress in those who appeal to God in their agony. During the brief moments, and they were but mere particles of time, if one can use such an expression, in which my senses could cateh any thing beyond the horrid scene in which I was so closely engaged, I had heard shrill screams from the lungs of Chloe; but Lucy's voice had not mingled in the outery. Even now, as we were raised, or aided, to the deck, the former stood, with her face glistening with tears, half convulsed with terror and half expanding with delight, uncertain whether to langh or to weep, looking first at her master and then at herown admirer, until her feelings found a vent in the old exclamation of " do feller!" It was fortunate for Andrew Drcwett that a man of Post's experience and steadiness was with us. No sooner was the seemingly lifeless body on board, than Mr. Hardinge ordered the water-cask to be got out; and he and Marble would have soon been rolling the poor fellow with all their might, o...« less