12/35 It carries with it, though you do regard it with so much favor, a full and satisfactory reason for observance, without rendering necessary any reference to any more serious matter than itself. On the road, I take it, he saw quite too little of either of us to be able well to determine what was what, or who was who, either then or now. The passage was dark, our disguises good, and the long hair and monstrous whiskers which you wore did the rest. I have no apprehensions, and see not that you need have any." "I would not rest in this confidence--let us make sure that if he knows anything he shall say nothing," was the significant reply of Rivers. When there's a necessity, do you see, for using teeth, you know me to be always ready; but I will not be for ever at this sort of work. |