25/76 But on the face of thing's we were friends. Said he to me after a long time of gazing at the smoke, "I think there is a curtain drawn. We shall never return by that road!" I laughed at him. "Look ahead!" said I."Let us leave our rear to the sweepers and the crows!" Nevertheless, what he had said remained in my mind, as the way of dark sayings is. Yet why should the word of a fool have the weight of truth? |