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Now began our real journey. Hitherto our toil had overcome all / difficulties, now difficulties would spring up at every step.
I had not yet ventured to look down the bottomless pit into which I / was about to take a plunge. The supreme hour had come. I might now / either share in the enterprise or refuse to move forward. But I was / ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter. Hans accepted the / enterprise with such calmness, such indifference, such perfect / disregard of any possible danger that I blushed at the idea of being / less brave than he. If I had been alone I might have once more tried / the effect of argument; but in the presence of the guide I held my / peace; my heart flew back to my sweet Virlandaise, and I approached / the central chimney.