James Fenimore Cooper

“ He decays rapidly," he continued mournfully, "and must soon lie by the side of old Mohegan."
The air being pure, and the day fine, the party continued conversing on the rock, until the wheels of Judge Temple’s carriage were heard clattering up the side of the mountain, during which time the conversation was maintained with deep interest, each moment clearing up some doubtful action, and lessening the antipathy of the youth to Marmaduke. He no longer objected to the removal of his grand father, who displayed a childish pleasure when he found himself seated once more in a carriage. ”

“ The troops shall halt for the night."
"This is the wandering of insanity!" said Marmaduke: "who will explain this scene."
"No, sir," said Edwards firmly, "'tis only the decay of nature; who is answerable for its pitiful condition, remains to be shown."
"Will the gentlemen dine with us, my son?" said the old stranger, turning to a voice that he both knew and loved. "Order a repast suitable for his Majesty’s officers. You know we have the best of game always at command." ”

“ He had left me, after several years of fruitless application and comparative poverty, in Nova Scotia, to obtain the compensation for his losses which the British commissioners had at length awarded. After spending a year in England, he was returning to Halifax, on his way to a government to which he had been appointed, in the West Indies, intending to go to the place where my grandfather had sojourned during and since the war, and take him with us."
"But thou!" said Marmaduke, with powerful interest; "I had thought that thou hadst perished with him." ”

“ When placed in the ample hall of the mansion- house, the eyes of the aged veteran turned slowly to the objects in the apartment, and a look like the dawn of intellect would, for moments flit across his features, when he invariably offered some use less courtesies to those near him, wandering painfully in his subjects. ”

“ If the cause of this country was successful, the trust was sacred with me, for none knew of thy father’s interest, if the crown still held its sway, it would he easy to restore the property of so loyal a subject as Colonel Effingham. Is not this plain?‘"
"The premises are good, sir," continued the youth, with the same incredulous look as before.
"Listen — listen, poy," said the German, "Dere is not a hair as of ter rogue in ter het of Herr Tchooge."
"We all know the issue of the struggle," continued Marmaduke, disregarding both. ”

“ The exercise and the change soon produced an exhaustion that caused them to remove him to his bed, where he lay for hours, evidently sensible of the change in his comforts, and exhibiting that mortifying picture of human nature, which too plainly shows that the propensities of the animal continue even after the nobler part of the creature appears to have vanished. ”

“ But there would have been one, and an insuperable one, and I announced to the world that I held these estates, multiplied by the times and my industry, a hundredfold in value, only as his trustee. Thou knowest that I supplied him with considerable sums immediately after the war. ”