Very prudent of you, sir.

Does you credit in every way.

Well, well; we all must die; and often the young before the old.' Not only did I think two guineas a great deal too much money for a quarter of an hour's employment, but also I disliked particularly the words with which he concluded; they sounded, from his grating voice, like the evil omen of a croaking raven.

Nevertheless I still abode in my fixed resolve to go, and find out, if I died for it, what was become of Lorna.

And herein I lay no claim to courage; the matter being simply a choice between two evils, of which by far the greater one was, of course, to lose my darling.
The journey was a great deal longer to fetch around the Southern hills, and enter by the Doone-gate, than to cross the lower land and steal in by the water-slide.