human
So am I! I shall just lie and light a pipe.
gpt
Come on, now, and look round the lee side of this crag. We shall find him bundled up under the lee of one of them.
human
He don't know lee from windward, I dare say.
gpt
He'll soon find out the difference by his skin;--if it's half as wet, at least, as mine is.
human
I'll tell you what, Naylor, if the poor fellow has crossed the ridge, and tried to go down on the Twll du, he's a dead man by this time.
gpt
He'll have funked it, when he comes to the edge, and sees nothing but mist below. But if he has wandered on to the cliffs above Trifaen, he's a dead man, then, at all events. Get out of the way of that flash! A close shave, that! I believe my whiskers are singed.
human
We may do both, and be none the worse. As for coming to grief, old boy, we're on a good errand, I suppose, and the devil himself can't harm us. Still, shame to him who's ashamed of saying his prayers, as Arnold used to say.