"To go back, you must go through yourself, and that way no man can show another." Entreaty was vain.

I must accept my fate! But how was life to be lived in a world of which I had all the laws to learn?
There would, however, be adventure! that held consolation; and whether I found my way home or not, I should at least have the rare advantage of knowing two worlds! I had never yet done anything to justify my existence; my former world was nothing the better for my sojourn in it: here, however, I must earn, or in some way find, my bread! But I reasoned that, as I was not to blame in being here, I might expect to be taken care of here as well as there! I had had nothing to do with getting into the world I had just left, and in it I had found myself heir to a large property! If that world, as I now saw, had a claim upon me because I had eaten, and could eat again, upon this world I had a claim because I must eat--when it would in return have a claim on me! "There is no hurry," said the raven, who stood regarding me; "we do not go much by the clock here.

Still, the sooner one begins to do what has to be done, the better! I will take you to my wife." "Thank you.

Let us go!" I answered, and immediately he led the way..