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The Borderers; Or, the Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, by the Author of 'the Pilot'.
The Borderers Or the Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by the Author of 'the Pilot' Author:James Fenimore Cooper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: VOLUME THE THIRD. CHAPTER I. Oh ! -- when amid the tbrongs of men The heart grows sick of hollow mirth, How willingly we turn Us then Away from this cold earth ; And look into thy azure breast, For seats of innocence and rest Bryant's Sides. The day was the Sabbath. This religious festival, which is even now observed in most of the States of the Union with a strictness that is little heeded in the rest of Christendom, was then reverenced with a severity suited to the austere habits of the colonists. The circumstance that one should journey on such a day had attracted the observation of all in the hamlet; but, as the stranger had been seen to ride towards the dwelling of the Heathcotes, and the times were known to teem with more than ordinary interests to the Province, it was believed that he found his justification in some apology of necessity. Still none ventured forth to enquire into the motives of this extraordinary visit. At the end of an hour, the horseman was seen to depart as he had arrived, seemingly urged on by the calls of some pressing emergency. He had in truth proceeded further with his tidings, though the lawfulness of discharging even this imperious duty on the Sabbath, had been gravely considered in the councils of those who had sent him. Happily they had found, or thought they had found, in some of the narratives of the sacred volume, a sufficient precedent to bid their messenger proceed. In the mean time, the unusual excitement which hadbeen so unexpectedly awakened in the dwelling of the Heathcotes, began to subside in that quiet, which is in so beautiful accordance wit...« less