"That's true. But whatever you do, don't you fall a-crying, my dear; and don't you worry yourself no more than you can help. Get on, my lad!"
The sleet fell all that day unceasingly, a thick mist came on early, and it never rose or lightened for a moment. Such roads I had never seen. I sometimes feared we had missed the way and got into the ploughed grounds or the marshes. If I ever thought of the time I had been out, it presented itself as an indefinite period of great duration, and I seemed, in a strange way, never to have been free from the anxiety under which I then laboured.

"That's true. But whatever you do, don't you fall a-crying, my dear; and don't you worry no more than you can help. Get on, my lad!"
The sleet fell all that day unceasingly and thick mist came on early. Such roads I had never seen. I sometimes feared we had missed the way and got into the ploughed grounds or the marshes. It felt as if we had been out for a very long time, and I seemed, in a strange way, never to have been free from the anxiety under which I then laboured.
