20/35 There is nothing to be gained, and a great deal to be lost by it, at this time. As for the scar--that, I think, is fairly a part of the business, and is not properly a subject of personal revenge. It belongs to the adventure, and you should not have engaged in it, without a due reference to its possible consequences." "You shall not keep me back by such objections as these. Do I not know how little you care for the risk--how little you can lose by it ?" "True, I can lose little, but I have other reasons; and, however it may surprise you, those reasons spring from a desire for your good rather than my own." "For my good ?" replied the other, with an inquiring sneer. |