Lionel Lincoln 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: of irfesistiWe thtfbaaaiiig, through ohe bfftef'Jow doors of which they immediately disappeared. Thus left on the bridge with his vafet, the young offic... more »er hesitated a single instant how to act; but yielding to the secret and powerful interest which the stranger had succeeded in throwing around all his movements and opinions, he bid Meriton await his return, and followed his guide and the old man into the cheerless habitation of the former On passing the outer door he found himself in a spacious, but rude apartment, which, from its appearance, as well as from the few articles of heavy but valueless merchandise it now contained, would seem to have been used once as a storehouse. The light drew his steps toward a room in one of the towers, where, as he approached its open door;;h6 loud, sharp tones of a woman's V exclaiming— " Where have you been, graceless, thii Bfcttnrdaytiight! tagging at the heels of thesoMiers, or glazmg at the mefi-of-war, withithwr ungodly fashions of music andrevelry at such a time, I dare to say f and you knew that a ship was in the bay, and that Madame Lechmere had desired me to $end her the first notice of its arrival. Here have I been waiting for you to go up to Tremont-street since sun-down, with the news, and you are out of call—you, that know so well who it is she expects!" " Don't be cross to Job, mother, for the grannies have been cutting his back with cords, till the blood runs !—Ma'am Lech- mere! I do believe, mother, that Ma'am Lechmere has moved ; for I've been trying to find her house this hour, because there's a gentleman who landed from the ship wanted Job to show him the way." " What means the ignorant boy !' exclaimed his mother. " He alludes to me," said the officer, entering the apartment; " I am the person, if any, ex...« less