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"But you will come to seek your wife," said Emmeline, stoutly; "I shall think you faint-hearted if you doubt it." On the day before his departure for London, Herbert Fitzgerald once more got on his horse the horse that was to be no longer his after that day and rode off towards Desmond Court.
In striking contrast to the faint-hearted measures of the allies was the timely energy of Napoleon in bringing up reinforcements.
This was at the commencement of October. On the 8th of that month Balbi wrote to Casanova that a whole night devoted to labour had resulted merely in the displacing of a single brick, which so discouraged the faint-hearted monk that he was for abandoning an attempt whose only result must be to increase in the future the rigour of their confinement.
The faint-hearted and the inexperienced might flatter themselves with such thoughts, and seek thus to cover their cowardice, but the zealous and the courageous will see that it is time to set sail on the ship, now that the wind is rising so freshly and favourably. "For there are many occasions when an army might be ruined for want of twenty thousand crowns.
"'Well, you have yourself, says the dog, putting up his fore-claw along his nose, and winking at Jack; 'you have yourself, man don't be faint-hearted: he'll bet the contents of this bag; and with that the ould thief gave it another great big shake, to make the guineas jingle again.
Twice he slackened his lope and called to them to hasten and when they responded with only a faint-hearted trot he was forced to mask his impatience. Coming to a walk he cropped imaginary grasses from time to time and so induced the others to draw nearer.
She answered me, that thus far she could not perceive this to be the case; 'nor could she believe, she said, 'that the King of France could be so faint-hearted as to submit to such injuries from the Guises." Time was very soon to show the nature of that unhappy monarch with regard to injuries, and to prove to Elizabeth the error she had committed in doubting his faint-heartedness.
Some he sent to the top of the tower to keep watch, others he charged with the transport of the stones; to a third party he entrusted the duty of hurling pieces of rock and blocks of stone down into the abyss in the moment of danger; he requested the weaker brethren to assemble themselves together, to pray for the others and to sing hymns of praise, and he concerted signs and passwords with all; he was now here, now there, and his energy and confidence infused themselves even into the faint-hearted.
"That I should share the government with this miserable, faint-hearted, poisonous nobody could never be, this enemy, who, when I said 'Yes, cried 'No! Who frustrated all my measures, it was impossible!
Yet, being a person of honourably-minded conscientiousness, he did not hesitate, when questioned by those who made pilgrimages to him for the purpose of learning by what means he had risen to so remunerative a position, to ascribe his success, not entirely to his own intelligent perception of persons and events, but, in part, also to a never-failing regard for the dictates of the Five General Principles, and a discriminating subservience to the inspired wisdom of the venerable Poo-chow, as conveyed to him in the story of the faint-hearted youth and the three tigers.
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