I considered that the devil might have found out abundance of other ways to have terrified me than this of the single print of a foot; that as I lived quite on the other side of the island, he would never have been so simple as to leave a mark in a place where it was ten thousand to one whether I should ever see it or not, and in the sand too, which the first surge of the sea, upon a high wind, would have defaced entirely.
Tekintve, hogy a sziget túlsó oldalán élek, amúgy is egy a tízezerhez volt az esélye, hogy valaha is felfedezem. Ráadásul a homokban a szél korbácsolta első nagyobb parti hullám eltörölte volna.