parting-of-the-ways

Updated: June 11, 2025

More likely though, it's a parting-of-the-ways. I shouldn't be surprised if the Doctor meant something sly by putting these two books in my hand. Somehow, the old gentleman has an amazing sly look a sort of wild slyness about him, seems to me. His wisdom seems a sort of sly, too. But all in honor, though.

Herman Melville - Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile