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Ellsworthy carried Miss Martineau away from her school, and shutting the door of that lady's little parlor, clasped the governess's thin hands, and poured her troubles into her ears. "Joseph calls it plucky," said Mrs. Ellsworthy at the end of her narrative. But Miss Martineau's face was perfectly aghast. "Plucky!" she ejaculated. "Dear Mrs.
Sherwood's died, leaving her some property in Scotland. But it was necessary for her to appear personally before the Scotch courts to obtain Hughie Blake's fortune. Circumstances were such, however, that her parents could not take Nan with them. It was a hard blow to the girl; but she was plucky and ready to accept the determination of Momsey and Papa Sherwood.
Later as I had no more soda water left I forgave him, and allowed him to return. It was this man who turned out to be the one plucky man among all my followers. It was he who stood by me through thick and thin during our trials in Tibet. I had some thirty carriers with me. We proceeded up and down, through thick forests of pine and fir trees, on the sides of successive mountain ranges.
I'm getting rather scared about it." "Look there," cried Jack in a tone that was almost audible to the two men at the pit. "It looks as if Wyckoff were going to dig. He's a plucky chap all right. We must give him credit for that." Wyckoff had searched the vicinity and found a shovel. This he was now preparing to put to use. He was in the pit in another moment and began throwing the sand out.
Stanley gladly moved away, and entered into conversation with the colonel of the 47th; while Colonel Adair related his adventures with the leopard to his cousin, and the officers standing round. "By Jove, that was a plucky thing!" Harry Brooke said, admiringly. "It was, indeed!" the colonel agreed, as similar exclamations went round the circle.
However, I believe he is personally plucky, but as this place is nothing like so strong as Jaffa was, he must see that, as a garrison of 8000 there could not resist the enemy, the 3000 men under him would not have a shadow of a chance were it not for our help. Even we could do nothing if it were not that the position of the town enables us to cover the land approaches."
It was a warm star-lit evening, and as Lorimer and Lovelace re-entered Winsleigh House, Beau stole a side-glance at his silent companion. "A plucky fellow!" he mused; "I should say he'd die game. Tortures won't wring his secret out of him." Aloud he said, "I say, haven't we had enough of this?
He came down from the hilltop, feeling that something had taken yet one more turn in the evertightening coil of his brain. For one instant, as they were laying Paddy into the narrow grave scooped out of the veldt, the coil relaxed. Then, as the lumps of earth closed over his plucky, loyal little comrade, it tightened again and pressed on him more closely than ever.
Every eye shifted to them, then obeyed decency or training; and the slightest break in the gay tumult was closed up with chatter and laughter. "Plucky," said Sandon Craig to his fair neighbour; "but by what chance did our unfortunate hostess do it?" "She's usually doing it, isn't she?
I'm going to get it, if I go to Liverpool for it! Now, then! and down went the mermaid quite out of sight this time, groping like a real lobster at the bottom of the sea. 'Plucky little girl! I like that. Who is she? asked the lady, sitting down on a half-covered stone to watch her diver, since the bracelet was lost sight of.
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