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The Heathcotes; Or, the Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
The Heathcotes Or the Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish 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: " There is one arrived in the Bay, within the month, by means of a king's frigate; but no trader hath yet passed between the countries, except the ship which mak... more »eth the annual voyage from Bristol to Boston." "Andhe who hath arrived, doth he come in authority?" demanded Mark; " or is he merely another servant of the Lord, seeking to rear his tabernacle in the wilderness?" "Thou shalt know the nature of his errand," returned the stranger, casting a glance of malicious intelligence obliquely towards his companions, at the same time that he arose and placed in the hand of his host a commission which evidently bore the seal of state. " It is expected that all aid will be given to one bearing this warranty, by a subject of a loyalty so approved as that of Captain Mark Heathcote." CHAPTER VI. " But, by your leave, I am an officer of state, and come To speak with " Corielanus. Notwithstanding the sharp look which the messenger of the crown deliberately and now openly fastened on the master of Wish-Ton-Wish, while the latter was reading the instrument that was placed before his eyes, there was no evidence of uneasiness to be detected in the unmoved features of the latter. Mark Heathcote had too long schooled his passions to suffer an unseemly manifestation of surprise to escape him, and he was by nature a man of far too much nerve to betray alarm at any trifling exhibition of danger. Returning the parchment to the other, he said with unmoved calm- mess to his son,— " We must open wide the doors of Wish-Ton-Wish. Here is one charged with authority to look into the secrets of all the dwellings of the colony." Then turning with dignity to the agent of the Crown, he added, " Thou hadst better commence thy duty in season, for we are many, and occupy much space." The ...« less