'Is there no other road?
Will you not let me go some other way than this ?' 'Places lie beyond these,' said the child, firmly, 'where we may live in peace, and be tempted to do no harm.

We will take the road that promises to have that end, and we would not turn out of it, if it were a hundred times worse than our fears lead us to expect.

We would not, dear, would we ?' 'No,' replied the old man, wavering in his voice, no less than in his manner.

'No.

Let us go on.