Our disguises were complete.

Your whiskers taken off, leave you as far from any resemblance to what you were in that affair, as any two men can well be from one another; and I am perfectly satisfied he has little knowledge of me." "How should he ?" retorted the other.

"The better part of valor saved you from all risk of danger or discovery alike; but the case is different with me.

It may be that, enjoying the happiness which I have lost, he has forgotten the now miserable object that once dared to aspire--but no matter--it may be that I am forgotten by him--he can never be by me." This speech, which had something in it vague and purposeless to the mind of Munro, was uttered with gloomy emphasis, more as a soliloquy than a reply, by the speaker.

His hands were passed over his eyes as if in agony, and his frame seemed to shudder at some remote recollection which had still the dark influence upon him.