I own the badness of the season and your very late recovery are unlucky circumstances; but a wise man must get over difficulties when necessity obliges him to encounter them.' "I was immediately determined by this opinion.

The duty of a wise man made an irresistible impression, and I took the necessity for granted without examination.

I accordingly set forward the next morning; very tempestuous weather soon overtook me; I had not traveled three days before I relapsed into my fever, and died.
"I was now as cruelly disappointed by Minos as I had formerly been happily so.

I advanced with the utmost confidence to the gate, and really imagined I should have been admitted by the wisdom of my countenance, even without any questions asked: but this was not my case; and, to my great surprise, Minos, with a menacing voice, called out to me, 'You Mr.there, with the grave countenance, whither so fast, pray?
Will you please, before you move any farther forwards, to give me a short account of your transactions below ?' I then began, and recounted to him my whole history, still expecting at the end of every period that the gate would be ordered to fly open; but I was obliged to go quite through with it, and then Minos after some little consideration spoke to me as follows:-- "'You, Mr.Wiseman, stand forth if you please.

Believe me, sir, a trip back again to earth will be one of the wisest steps you ever took, and really more to the honor of your wisdom than any you have hitherto taken.