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I must disappoint you, then, by telling you that he did no such thing. Hendrik was a real hunter neither rash nor wasteful of his resources. He knew a better plan than to kill the eland upon the spot. He knew that the animal was now quite in his power; and that he could drive him wherever he pleased, just like a tame ox.
You thought, Sir John, that I was somewhat rash to leave the defence solely to the charge of this son of yours, but you see the lad was ready at all points, and I will warrant me that the castle would have held out under him as long a time as if you and I both had been in command of it." It was not until January, the year being 1414, that the Earl of Dorset and a great company arrived at Calais.
You were, in fact, their representative and agent, and therefore to be regarded with the same deference and respect that would be due to the oldest knight similarly placed. 'Lastly, he said, in a less serious tone, 'you must remember that this is an experiment, and, as some think, a somewhat rash one.
She now concluded a season of mournful reflection by saying, "He will get you into trouble, somehow, Basil." "Well, I don't know how, exactly. I regard Lindau as a political economist of an unusual type; but I shall not let him array me against the constituted authorities. Short of that, I think I am safe." "Well, be careful, Basil; be careful. You know you are so rash."
We had scarcely got in motion before a rash determination seized my mind. "You must go home with me, Edgerton. It will not do, while you are in this feeble state, to remain at a public tavern." He said something very faintly about crowding and inconveniencing us. "Pshaw room enough and Julia can be your nurse." His eyes closed, he sunk back in the carriage, and a deep sigh escaped him.
Or calls he this a rash oath, which, upon so sage and due deliberation, so serious advisement, so pious intention, so decent preparation, so great humiliation, was religiously, publicly, solemnly sworn throughout this land, and that at the straight command of authority? Who is ignorant of these things, except he be a stranger in our Israel?
The perils of such a venture, only conjectural to us at this distance, he knew well; but in him there was nothing that shrank from danger, though he did not court it after the rash manner of many of his compeers.
All over that Thuringian region I was cried out upon as a headstrong foolish person: The Herr Graf von Werthern, so ran the story, had of his own kindness, without request of mine, offered me a living; RARA AVIS, singular instance; and I, rash and without head, flung away such gracious offer.
Vast heaps of wealth are stored up there, so the Dutch will take precious good care that you don't get into the place. "`We'll see about that, thought the captain to himself, winking with the eye which was turned away from the admiral. `Of course, sir, we'll do nothing rash, says he. `It isn't the way of English sailors. We are always steady, sure sort of fellows.
"Whose rash envy would allow No strain that shamed his country's creaking lyre, That whetstone of the teeth, monotony in wire."
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