You cannot but feel already that it is useless staying here, with any hope of advancing them.

You will have to go further.' 'And to fare worse ?' said Martin, pursuing the old adage.
'Well, I hope not.

But sufficient for the day, you know--good night' They shook hands heartily and separated.

As soon as Martin was left alone, the excitement of novelty and change which had sustained him through all the fatigues of the day, departed; and he felt so thoroughly dejected and worn out, that he even lacked the energy to crawl upstairs to bed.
In twelve or fifteen hours, how great a change had fallen on his hopes and sanguine plans! New and strange as he was to the ground on which he stood, and to the air he breathed, he could not--recalling all that he had crowded into that one day--but entertain a strong misgiving that his enterprise was doomed.

Rash and ill-considered as it had often looked on shipboard, but had never seemed on shore, it wore a dismal aspect, now, that frightened him.