The look was understood and answered by the other; and by some secret influence, which operated either through their interests or feelings, it served to re-establish that harmony between them, which had just been threatened with something like a momentary breach.
"I know it, and feel it in every bone of my body.

But I remember the reason, why I have set myself on this accursed journey too well to forget the distance between me and the end.

Neither you nor I will ever be the better for what we have done, unless we thoroughly finish what is so well begun.

Ay, that is the doctrine of the whole world, I judge: I heard a travelling preacher, who was skirting it down the Ohio, a time since, say, if a man should live up to the faith for a hundred years, and then fall from his work a single day, he would find the settlement was to be made for the finishing blow that he had put to his job, and that all the bad, and none of the good, would come into the final account." "And you believed the hungry hypocrite!" "Who said that I believed it ?" retorted Abiram with a bullying look, that betrayed how much his fears had dwelt on the subject he affected to despise.

"Is it believing to tell what a roguish--And yet, Ishmael, the man might have been honest after all! He told us that the world was, in truth, no better than a desert, and that there was but one hand that could lead the most learned man through all its crooked windings.