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emotion, but to stand face to face with circumstances.
To look fortune in the face is the duty of every one not an idiot; to
seek not to understand, but to act.
Presently he asked himself, What could he do?
Gwynplaine being taken, Ursus was placed between two terrors--a fear for
Gwynplaine, which instigated him to follow; and a fear for himself,
which urged him to remain where he was.
Ursus had the intrepidity of a fly and the impassibility of a sensitive
plant. His agitation was not to be described. However, he took his
resolution heroically, and decided to brave the law, and to follow the
wapentake, so anxious was he concerning the fate of Gwynplaine.
His terror must have been great to prompt so much courage.
To what valiant acts will not fear drive a hare!
The chamois in despair jumps a precipice. To be terrified into
imprudence is one of the forms of fear.
Gwynplaine had been carried off rather than arrested. The operation of
the police had been executed so rapidly that the Fair field, generally
little frequented at that hour of the morning, had scarcely taken
cognizance of the circumstance.
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