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part bent upon the ground. I should h him indifferent to what was passing rou I not observed that he looked sometimes cliff with anxious earnestness, as if m growing height, and sometimes towards t rapidly approaching. I even fancied t expression of growing apprehension as its progress. And then he looked at his as if he would have spoken, but knew gain a hearing. And indeed it was n they were vastly talkative and busy or other, and paid no more attention to they knew him unworthy of regard. Do know this? I considered within myself. might seem that his sorrow at least sl them to compassion. Since he has tra far in their company, he cannot be them and yet he walks, of all contemn

ravellers, he said,

ywords." I waited the effect of no one paused and no one e pensive stranger continued to air of anxious and alarmed soow I thought his pallid countebeautiful by the love, and tenthat lighted up his features. he repeated in a louder tone, upon us as a thief in the night, - its coming." Eyes were now sif content to hear-but scorn in all of them, and no one

The Man of Sorrows spokeDad of which ye know not the list to the voice of one who takes you take none for yourselves. say, to yonder fair city, whose are visible in the distance-but y. Your senses deceive you. and our distant home a pass,

are nigh to that tremendous passage, go perish. Be warned while it is day, fo cometh in which no man can escape. lifted up his humid eyes, as if to see how star had gone down but there were mar before its setting. The party marked smiled. "I know not," said Audax, should mar the pleasures of the day by the night. When the danger is at han time enough to think of an escape. M malice envies us our present good, since eager to empoison it with fear. Are we from our beaten course, because a soure torted fancy sees ills that no man besid told of. We go the way our fathers wen and doubtless shall rejoin them where And yonder multitude, still moving in the are they too all deceived, and only tho

snay. As wise men, therefore, e the side of probability, to be we see, and not to be diverted fanciful representations of what on no man who has tried it e'er And he looked on the admonitor ous pity of one who waits an elieves unanswerable.

up with a smile, but not exactly atter in dispute, and concluding of his, left them to settle it as urned to his amusements.

ew closer to the side of him who seemed disposed to listen to his st thou, then," he said, "a bath? For ere we quit the one befits us that we find another. between two barriers that may

each one becomes more difficult than the if we go too far, we may seek for it in vai we but reach the summit of the cliff. though stony, is secure, and the pros tiful."

"We should do well to abide thy co plied Prudens, "if what thou sayest be if I were but sure of it, I would not hesit all and follow thee. But the path you looks gloomy and little promising; nor well why such a one should be the only place we seek. He who invites us thi surely make it more accessible. I almost leave the company and go with thee. B mock us, and with reason, should it app taken unnecessary trouble, and gained b deprivation for our pains. Better that