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the pilot, in French, "are you afraid of being drowned?"

"No!" answered she, in the same language, "I fear nothing now—it is therefore I am thankful!"

Retreating, then, from her rude neighbour, she gently approached an elderly lady, who was on her other side, but who, shrinking from her, called out, "Mr. Harleigh, I shall be obliged to you if you will change places with me."

"Willingly;" he answered; but the young lady with whom he had been conversing, holding his coat, exclaimed, "Now you want to have all the stories of those monks and abbesses to yourself! I won't let you stir, I am resolved!"

The stranger begged that she might not incommode any one; and drew back.

"You may sit still now, Mr. Harleigh," said the elderly lady, shaking herself; "I do very well again."

Harleigh bit his lip, and, in a low voice, said to his companion, "It is