"I have no anxiety about you.

Such as you always come back to us." "Tell me, please, who am I such as ?" I said.
"I cannot make my friend the subject of conversation," he answered, with a smile.
"But when that friend is present!" I urged.
"I decline the more strongly," he rejoined.
"But when that friend asks you!" I persisted.
"Then most positively I refuse," he returned.
"Why ?" "Because he and I would be talking of two persons as if they were one and the same.

Your consciousness of yourself and my knowledge of you are far apart!" The lapels of his coat flew out, and the lappets lifted, and I thought the metamorphosis of HOMO to CORVUS was about to take place before my eyes.

But the coat closed again in front of him, and he added, with seeming inconsequence, "In this world never trust a person who has once deceived you.

Above all, never do anything such a one may ask you to do." "I will try to remember," I answered; "-- but I may forget!" "Then some evil that is good for you will follow." "And if I remember ?" "Some evil that is not good for you, will not follow." The old man seemed to sink to the ground, and immediately I saw the raven several yards from me, flying low and fast..