I have done my best here according to my lights, so I don't know why I should be afraid of the future, especially as it has been taken out of me pretty well in the present, though of course I _am_ afraid for all that, every man is.

The only thing that troubles me is a doubt whether we ought to take Juanna into such a place.

But really I do not know but what it would be as dangerous to go back as to proceed: those gentlemen with the poisoned arrows may have recovered from their fear of firearms by now." "I wish we had nothing worse than the Hereafter to fear," said Francisco with a sigh.

"It is the journey thither that is so terrible.

As for our expedition, having undertaken it, I think on the whole that we had better persevere, especially as the senora wishes it, and she is very hard to turn.