The moon is quite obscured, and the road as black as a wolf's mouth." "Tut," said the physicianer, "let not your valour care for that: we shall tread darker paths ere it be long." Without inquiring into the meaning of these evil boding sentences, and indeed hardly listening to them in the pride and recklessness of his nature, the page of Ramorny parted from his ingenious and dangerous companion, and each took his own way..