"I have done many wrong things," said he, "but thank God, no betrayal of confiding innocence weighs on my conscience.

They are all Yankees at bottom; and if they could get their 365 Islandsso they call the large stones on which they liveunder weigh, they would not be long in towing them into the Chesapeake.

The boat had lost its weigh, while the brigantine was flying along now with every sail bulging and swelling to bursting-point.