It was the coquette in her that had mocked and tantalized him, the coquette even whom he had kissedbut it was the woman who had struck and now suffered the pains of her imprudence.

" "Fellow, the success of your deception may cause you to triumph for a time; but remember that the Coquette" "Is a wholesome boat, whose abilities I have taken, to the admeasurement of her moment-glass;" observed Tiller, very coolly taking the words out of the other's mouth.

In the mean time, the Coquette had not been idle Borne on by the breeze, and floating with the current, she had even gained upon her chase; and as her lofty and light sails drew strongest over the land, there was every prospect of her first reaching the eastern end of Blackwell's.