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: APPEARANCE versus WORTH. A TALE. BY 1. w. w. CHAPTER V. WHICH RETURNETH TO THE BEAUTIFUL LADY. Several weeks, succeeding the events related in our last chapter, may be passed over at a glance. During this time the conduct of Foster had been such as to attract the attention of his whole crew. He paid frequent visits to Wilmington, and his actions on returning were always strange and suspicious. Several times he had reached the cove at midnight, and retiring silently to his cabin had locked himself in, and paced the floor with a heavy tread until morning, while groans and exclamations of sorrow and self-accusation, betrayed his mental anguish. Sometimes he indulged in such bursts of passion that no one but his mate dared approach him; and again, his language would be mild and his bearing subdued, as though all spirit were crushed and broken. This conduct, in one of his impetuous nature, can readily be accounted for. His accidental contact with that society from which he had so long been outlawed, had- given him a longing to return again within its pale, and once more become one among his fellow-men. But when he thought of the pure and good who moved there, his own character appeared before him in such dark and revolting colors that he dared not hope to be reclaimed, and but one thing withheld him from rushing madly back into his former career. His first meeting with Mary Miller, so different from the females with whom he had for years associated, had called into life all those purer affections of his nature, which had so long lain dormant. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he loved her with his whole soul, and that he was ready to make any sacrifice to win her love in return. He had been a constant visitor at Col Miller's house, and the lady, of whose e...