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Updated: May 29, 2025
And now Hastings was not afraid to come away out to this remote place with a handful of such soldiers and send them to arrest a native sovereign. The lieutenants imprisoned the Rajah in his own fort. It was beautiful, the pluckiness of it, the impudence of it. The arrest enraged the Rajah's people, and all Benares came storming about the place and threatening vengeance.
Miss Craydocke slipped her lap-board work and all under her bureau, upon the floor, for safety; and then with her quaint, queer expression, in which curiosity, pluckiness, and a foretaste of amusement mingled so as to drive out annoyance, pushed back her bolt, and presented herself to the demand of her visitor, much as an undaunted man might fling open his door at the call of a mob.
But, before a moment was over, the outward gaiety, the blue sky, the glowing sun that streamed into the bedchamber, a nice little breakfast that he ate in bed, his window wide open upon the sea, the whole flavoured with an uncommonly good bottle of Crescia wine it very speedily restored him his former pluckiness.
In some publication, too, at about that time, appeared the tale of the adventures of Captain Gardiner and Captain Daggett in antarctic wastes, seeking the sea-lions' skins, and the story of pluckiness and awful trial affected his imagination deeply.
"It is no more than he ought to have done, for your pluckiness saved Flurry." But to their surprise I turned on them with hot cheeks. "I have done nothing, it is all their kindness and goodness to me: it is far too generous. How ever shall I thank him?"
In many cases the Boers gave from their own scant stock of provisions to the starving men, for whom they expressed the utmost admiration for their pluckiness and determination. Dr. Jameson and his principal officers, including Sir John Willoughby, were brought in separately from the main body of the captured troops.
There he stood, a graceful, well-appointed, fashionable young man, with not a hair awry in his black curls, not a shadow on his handsome face, perfectly satisfied with himself and his fortunes a little flushed, perhaps, it might be, with what he would call the "pluckiness" of coming thus to "beard the lion in his den," to visit the master of his late college.
And now Hastings was not afraid to come away out to this remote place with a handful of such soldiers and send them to arrest a native sovereign. The lieutenants imprisoned the Rajah in his own fort. It was beautiful, the pluckiness of it, the impudence of it. The arrest enraged the Rajah's people, and all Benares came storming about the place and threatening vengeance.
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