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For forty seconds the fierce struggle lasts; the bow of the boat is wetted to a height of four inches; but dauntlessness and skill conquer all difficulties, and in forty seconds and a half the unscathed Rover stands on his quarter-deck. Sometimes when the captain is in a good humour, the Rover goes for a sail, and he takes as many as three ladies with him.
"Her beauty and her dauntlessness have laid a sort of spell on me and I'm a fairly conservative man. You are not you're a plunger a gambler in emotions. That's why I'm hanging out a warning signal." The big man laughed with the full-chested mirth of a Viking.
McQuillen or Ella Finley might be seen running bareheaded across the street for Miss Grower. Physical force was needed, as the rector discovered on one occasion; physical force, and something more, a dauntlessness that kept Sally Grower in the room after the other women had fled in terror. Then remorse, despondency, another fear . . . . As the weeks went by, the relapses certainly became fewer.
The men who stayed upon their feet had the stamina of a manhood in them that could not be extinguished. It was a wilderness edition of that dauntlessness which brought the Loyalists to Ontario and the French devotees to Quebec. This, too, made for a dogged, strong, obstinate race.
A book wherein the hero overcame the villain by desperate means and won the girl by a single stroke of manly dauntlessness was to him like so much trash. Melodramatic plays he despised. Griffith's pictures were the only ones in which he could tolerate a "staged" thrill.
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home. But this fine young savage this sea Prince of Wales, never saw the Captain's cabin.
Then he chuckled over the thought of the reckless Seadogs who march in nautical raiment on the pier. Those wild, rollicking Seadogs! How the North Sea men would envy them and their dower of dauntlessness! The Seadog takes his frugal lunch at the club; he begins with a sole, and no doubt he casts a patronizing thought towards the other Seadogs who trawled for the delicate fish.
Travers' cautious British mind grew. No money, no French, no objective, just a great human desire to be useful in her own small way this was a new type to him. What a sporting chance this frail bit of a girl was taking! And he noticed now something that had escaped him before a dauntlessness, a courage of the spirit rather than of the body, that was in the very poise of her head.
Sitting among the heather, small, lithe, and felinely graceful, watching him with a provocative smile in her rather narrow eyes, she compelled his attention. "Well," she laughed, "you're not much of a courtier. But doesn't that story bring you back into touch with elemental things treacherous mosses, dark nights, flooded rivers, passion, peril, dauntlessness?
While all this is of the past, the heritage of a fur-hunting ancestry has entered into the very blood and brawn and brain of Canada in a kind of iron dauntlessness that makes for manhood.
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