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Had he taken to his heels, by , he would have had half a dozen bullets in his rear; but, as I said, I like pluck, and on that account we shall pass him by this time. To the right about. As to the clerk, by , he has shown pluck too, but be hanged to him, what do we care about him?" We must say a word or two here about Smellpriest.
"Walter, my boy," exclaimed Mr Huntingdon, stretching out his hand to his younger son, "it was bravely done. If it had not been for you, we might have been hanging over the mouth of the chalk-pit yet or, perhaps, been down at the bottom. You are a lad after your father's own heart, good old-fashioned English pluck and courage; there's nothing I admire so much."
This translation of a favourite romance into terms of the servants' hall chilled Maud like a cold shower. She recoiled from it. "Wouldn't you like to get a good education, Albert," she said perseveringly, "and become a great poet and write wonderful poems?" Albert considered the point, and shook his head. "No, m'lady." It was discouraging. But Maud was a girl of pluck.
"Do do you think they are alive?" asked Ned unsteadily. "So far. If they are not, it's not their fault. The Professor is right. Those boys have pluck enough to pull them through, but sometimes pluck alone will not do it. A prairie fire is no respecter of pluck." They burst out into an open space. There were no signs of either of the missing boys. "Something has happened to them.
Lisle modestly told the story, amid frequent cross questioning. "Well, there is no doubt that you were lucky, Lisle," the colonel said, when he had brought his story to a conclusion. "The pluck of your action, in getting Colonel Houghton off and staying yourself, appealed strongly to the Afridis; and caused their chief to decide to retain you as a hostage, instead of killing you at once.
Even ash, even ash, I pluck thee, This night my true love for to see, Neither in his rick nor in his rear, But in the clothes he does every day wear." And there is the well-known saying current throughout the country: "If you find an even ash or a four-leaved clover, Rest assured you'll see your true love ere the day is over."
"Can you walk?" The German's tone had changed somewhat. It was anxious now, and puzzled. "I don't know," said Boris. "There is a pain in my leg here, right above the ankle. Ouch!" Fred saw the German officer slip his hand down over the spot to which Boris pointed, and his touch dragged the exclamation of pain from Boris. "You can't walk, that's certain!" said the German. "You've got pluck, boy!
Napoleon, the greatest general of the French, had wished to search for the Lost Oasis, marching from Tripolitania to Egypt, but had abandoned the undertaking because of other duties, not because he ceased to believe. The golden flower of the desert had been left for Stanton and his band to pluck. Threats, persuasion, bribes, had collected for him a formidable force.
A very few blows, successfully and scientifically planted, might suffice to bring the contest to a close; and the battle did not, therefore, often allow full scope for the energy, fortitude, and dogged perseverance that we technically style pluck, which not unusually wins the day against superior science, and which heightens to so painful a delight the interest in the battle and the sympathy for the brave.
But he'll not fly and you'll not fly; no, you and he together will this day earn a name that shall be told of when the world is grey with age. Great is the chance that life has given you; pluck it, pluck it from the land of opportunity and, dead or living, become a song forever in the mouths of men unborn. Think not of prisoners; think not of ransoms and of wealth.
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