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Oloff Van Staats, or the Patroon of Kinderhook, as, by the courtesy of the colony, he was commonly termed, did not want for personal firmness. On the contrary, like most of those who were descended from the Hollanders, he was rather distinguished for steadiness in danger, and obstinacy in resistance.
The cause that I shall assert, I dare support through every danger, as undauntedly as the boldest who draws sword in its behalf. 'Of that, answered Flora, 'I cannot doubt for a moment.
However, Richard having decided to continue on his way, was promptly seized by the Germans and held as an English spy. For a few days he had a most exciting series of adventures with the German military authorities and his life was frequently in danger.
That appeal to the supernatural which while the danger threatens is but forlorn medicine, after the blow has fallen may turn to sublime wisdom. This wisdom has cast out the fear of material evils, and dreads only that the divine should not come down and be worthily entertained among us.
Falchion both cared for him and hated him too; but she did not know the true reason of the hatred that only came out afterwards. Woman-like, she exaggerated in order that she might move him; but her motive was good, and what she said was not out of keeping with the facts of life. "The man's life even might be in danger?" he asked. "It might."
If they had escaped, we need not have much apprehension about ourselves; but if they had been put to death, we, I still dreaded, on reaching the shore might meet with the same fate. "What can we do, Dick, to let Miss Kitty and the mate know their danger?" I asked. "If they come up the harbour, there will be no chance for them." "We can do nothing, Charley," he answered.
Nay, do not be alarmed, carissima, the danger is certainly not immediate; you will have ample time to rise and dress at your leisure." "Oho!" thought I. "Danger, eh? It is time for me to be making a muster."
He now became aware of the full extent of the danger which encompassed him, the utter impossibility of retracing his steps, his fearfully forlorn condition, and the absolute necessity of at once trusting himself to the faith and honour of the Emperor's enemies.
A word from that far, wild country, which seemed so much fitter a background to his simple bulk and strength than the cramped ways of London society a message from the very heart of the dark continent to him: "Meredith surrounded and in danger Durnovo false come at once Jocelyn Gordon." Guy Oscard pushed back his chair and rose at once, as if there were somebody waiting in the hall to see him.
He found in her all that he had admired most, all that he had admired in the leader who hitherto had been the only personification of his ideal. But Jeanne possessed all those qualities which had roused his enthusiasm in the noble hero whom he revered. Her pluck, her ingenuity, her calm devotion which had averted the threatened danger from him!
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