Lucy Hardinge 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: about the commandments! I should like to know what commandment this was breaking. The whole six, in a batch." " The tenth, I am inclined to think, my friend; ... more »and that is a commandment broken all day, and every day." The denunciations of the mate continued for some time longer, and then went off like the rumbling of distant thunder in the heavens, after the passage of the gust. CHAPTER IV. No Moorish maid might hope to vie With Laila's cheek, or Laila's eye; No maiden loved with purer truth, Or ever loved a lovelier youth. Sogthet. " Miles," said Moses, suddenly, after riding a short distance in silence, " I must quit the old lady this very night, and go down with you to town. We must have that money up at the place of sale, in readiness for the vagabond; for, as to letting him have the smallest chance at Willow Grove, that is out of the question." " As you please, Marble ; but, now, get yourself in trim to meet another relation; the second you have laid eyes on in this world." " Think of that, Miles ! Think of my having two relations ! a mother and a niece ! Well, it is a true saying, that it never rains but it pours." " You probably have many more—uncles, aunts, and cousins in scores. The Dutch are famous for counting cousins ; and no doubt you'll have calls on you from half the country." I saw that Marble was perplexed, and did not know, at first, but he was getting to be embarrassed by this affluence of kindred. The mate, however, was not the man long to conceal his thoughts from me ; and in the strength of his feelings he soon let his trouble be known. " I say, Miles," he rejoined, " a fellow may be bothered with felicity, I find. Now, here, in ten minutes, perhaps, I shall have to meet my sister's darter — my own, born, blood niece ; a full-grow...« less