They told us that the rearmost division was not more than ten miles ahead." "We must have walked double that already, I should say, master." "Not so much as that.

We have been a long time over it, but it is slow travelling over this broken ground, and thick wood.

I am sure I hope that we have not gone twenty miles, or anything like it; for in that case, if we have been keeping fairly in the right direction, we must have passed the army.

If we have been going in the wrong direction, there is no saying where we may be.
"Still, I think that your suggestion is a good one.

It is of no use our going on, when we may be getting farther away at every step.