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 countryman to you, if you like him better,&mdash;the pilot?"

"Not for the universe! Not for the universe!" she eagerly cried, and, darting into an empty room, with a hasty apology, shut the door.

"Mighty well, indeed!" said Mrs. Maple, who, catching the contagion of curiosity, had deigned to listen; "so her own countryman, the only person that she ought to belong to, she shuts the door upon!"

She then protested, that if the woman were not brought forth, before the pilot, who was already paid and gone, had reembarked, she should always be convinced that she had lost something, though she might not find out what had been taken from her, for a twelvemonth afterwards.

The landlord, coming forward, enquired whether there were any disturbance; and, upon the complaint and application of Mrs. Maple, would have opened the door of the closed apartment;