Hope. Be comforted, my brother, for I forgive thee; and believe,
too, that this shall be for our good.
Chr. I am glad I have with me a merciful brother; but we must
not stand thus: let us try to go back again.
Hope. But, good brother, let me go before.
Chr. No, if you please, let me go first, that if there be any
danger, I may be first therein, because by my means we are both
gone out of the way.
Hope. No, said Hopeful, you shall not go first; for your mind
being troubled may lead you out of the way
again. Then, for their encouragement, they heard the voice of
one saying, Set thine heart toward the highway, even the way
which thou wentest; turn again. But by this time the waters were
greatly risen, by reason of which the way of going back was very
dangerous. (Then I thought that it is easier going out of the
way, when we are in, than going in when we are out.) Yet they
adventured to go back, but it was so dark, and the flood was so
high, that in their going back they had like to have been
drowned nine or ten times.
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