Neither one nor the other, however, attempted to make any objection.

After a few last recommendations and directions, their old guide withdrew, quite pleased with Lucan's generosity.

Both began then resolutely to scale the cliff which, at this point of the coast, is known as the cliff of Jobourg, and rises some three hundred feet above the level of the ocean.
At the beginning of this ascension, they broke the silence they had hitherto maintained, in order to exchange some jesting remarks upon the charms and comforts of this goat's-path; but the real and even alarming difficulties of the road soon proved sufficient to absorb their entire attention.

The faintly beaten path disappeared at times on the barren rock, or under some recent land-slide.

They had much trouble finding the broken thread again.