The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

"When you arrive," said they, "you may see to the gate of the Celestial
City, as the shepherds who live there will show you."
Now, just before Christian was about to leave, they asked him to go
again into the armory. When they arrived, they equipped him from
head to foot with armor, lest, perhaps, he would meet with assaults
along the way. He being, therefore, thus attired, walked out with his
friends to the door, and there he asked the porter if he had seen any
Pilgrims pass by.
The porter answered, "Yes."
CHRISTIAN: "Did you know him?"
PORTER: "I asked his name, and he told me it was Faithful."
CHRISTIAN: "Oh, I know him! He is my townsman, my near neighbor
— he comes from the place where I was born. How far do you think he
may be ahead of me?”
PORTER: "By this time he is perhaps beyond the bottom of the hill."
CHRISTIAN: "Well, good Porter, may the Lord be with you, and increase
your blessings, for the kindness that you have shown to me."
Then Christian began to go forward — but Discretion, Piety, Charity
and Prudence, desired to accompany him down to the bottom of the
hill. So they went on together, reminiscing their former discourses,
until they came to the start of the descent down the hill.
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