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It betrays the fatuity of the Spanish leader, if not of the whole plan of campaign, that when thus practically driven to refuge in a neutral port, Medina Sidonia thought his share of the task accomplished, and wrote urgent appeals to Parma to join or send aid, though the great general had not enough flat-boats and barges to float his army had he been so foolhardy as to embark, or the Dutch so benevolent as to let him go.
After a pause he continued: "I want no more of these foolhardy, quixotic actions of yours. I've heard of your visiting these wretched people going into fever dens. Is that conduct becoming your name? Think a little of your station in life and what it demands." "I wish YOU did a little more." "What?" he shouted, all his anger returned.
But in truth if they had mentioned this as their destination, no wise master would have given them permission to go, unless they promised to be accompanied by a guide; for the ascent of Appenfell, dangerous even in summer to all but those who well knew the features of the mountain, became in winter a perilous and foolhardy attempt.
Faircloth continued to look at her; but his expression softened, gaining a certain spirituality. "I have questioned more than once to-day whether I had not been foolhardy in letting you come here whether distance wasn't safest, and the hunger of absence sweeter than the full meal of your presence for for both of us, things being between us as they actually are. What if the bubble burst?
He did make use of funny expressions Stein did. "Vain expense" was good. . . . Remain? Why! of course. He would hang on. Let him only get in that's all; he would answer for it he would remain. Never get out. It was easy enough to remain. "Don't be foolhardy," I said, rendered uneasy by his threatening tone. "If you only live long enough you will want to come back."
Down plunged the two ponies down, down, down the sharply pitched mountain side, leaping logs and stones, crashing through brush, scrambling or slithering stiff-legged down rock slides. It was a wild race, a race that would have been utterly foolhardy with any other horses than these mountain bred cow ponies.
When his story was finished he sounded like a man who'd done a very foolhardy thing, but he didn't sound like a man with a girl on his mind. The broad man with the moustache asked a question or two. The tall man asked others. Lockley asked many. The answers were frustrating. They hadn't seen their captors at all.
They had worked sufficiently well, and, if need be, could have been fired in the gale. But Tom did not want his men to take unnecessary risks, nor was he foolhardy himself. "We'll have our hands full when we turn around and head into the wind," he said to his chum. "That will be enough." "Then you're really going to give the Mars that test?" "I surely am.
As for the prince, he is briefly described by a companion as "the most prudent man not to be a coward, the most daring not to be foolhardy, whom he had ever known." He showed a constant gayety, singing and telling tales to hearten his followers. His resource was endless; he was by far the best cook and the least fastidious eater of his company.
The conduct of the business afterwards came into my hands, and briefly, what had occurred was this: Three persons, two sisters and their brother, who was younger than themselves, members of a decent English family, were going on a trip round the world. They were young, adventurous, and not to put too fine a point on it foolhardy.
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