THE RED ROVER, A TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE PILOT, etc., etc. Ye speak like honest men; pray God ye prove so!» IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. PARIS: PRINTED FOR HECTOR BOSSANGE, QUAI VOLTAIRE, NO 11. BOBÉE ET HINGRAY. BAUDRY.-GALIGNANI. 1827. THE RED ROVER. CHAPTER I. THIEF. «'Tis in the malice of mankind, that he thus advises us; not to have us thrive in our mystery. >> Timon of Athens. THROUGHOUT the whole of that day, no change occurred in the weather. The sleeping ocean lay like a waving and glittering mirror, smooth and polished on its surface, though, as usual, the long rising and falling of a heavy ground-swell announced the commotion that was in action within some distant horizon. From the time that he left the deck, until the sun laved its burnished orb in the sea, the individual, who so well knew how to keep alive VOL. III. 2 |