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But, as it was generally suspected by the corps that Jonathan was, at best, hen-hearted, he met with little, indeed I may say no sympathy on account of his complaints, but rather with contempt; for there was not a man in our whole regiment, save himself, that did not hate cowardice with his whole heart, and despise it with his whole soul.
'I'll have nothing to do with that, said the other. 'Are you turned hen-hearted, Jack? 'No, by G-d, no more than yourself, but I won't. It was something like that stopped all the trade fifteen or twenty years ago. You have heard of the Loup? G-d, how he used to laugh when he showed us how he fetched him off the perch! 'Well, but it did up the trade for one while, said Jack.
The hen-hearted rascal is so cowardly that he berays himself for fear every day. If thou art so afraid, dunghill, do not go; stay here and be hanged; or go and hide thy loggerhead under Madam Proserpine's petticoat.
"He said, in answer, that he did not wish to live; that he suffered the greatest tortures of mind; and that the only comfort earth held out to him would be to ease his remorse by a full acknowledgment of his crime, and to hope for future mercy by expiating his offence on the scaffold; all this, and much more, to the same purpose, the hen-hearted fellow told me with sighs and groans.
"Oh," said he, "though I never was troubled that gate mysel' there's mony a bold man has turned hen-hearted when it came to a question of the lasses. There's Freddy here, one wad never think it of him, but there has he gotten yon lass that nearly did for me with her twa-pronged fork. She's a smart hizzy, and will make a lively wife to some man.
Didn't you say, you war coming out, that if it was the devil, you'd disparse him?" "You had betther not be mintioning his name, you omadhaun," replied the other; "if I was your age, and hadn't a wife and childre on my hands, it's myself that would trust in God, and go down manfully; but the people are hen-hearted now, besides what they used to be in my time."
Warwick could put division between blood-relatives, she could do worse, and was to be dreaded up to the hour of the nuptials. 'I meant no harm in coming, she said, at the shaking of hands. 'No, no; I understand, said her hostess: 'you are hen-hearted over your adopted brood. The situation is perceptible and your intention creditable.
Come, heave in the sack We were d mn'd fools, for taking such a hen-hearted fellow among us. Lift the sack an end. Why don't you lend a hand, and keep it steady, while I untie it? Do you think a dead man can stand on his legs? D mn my body, the fool is afraid he should bite. 'You are a hardened dog, Randal, bl st me! 'Come, tumble the body out. Lay hold! Here! Heave this way. So: that will do.
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