Before that he seemed but a good soldier, true as steel, brave, hardy, resourceful in the field, and nothing more.

"That the son would be as brave and as resourceful as the father.

He had been taken almost by a miracle out of the hands of his foes, and, when he was ill and in his weakness might have been devoured by wild beasts or might have starved to death, the most loyal and resourceful of comrades had been by his side to save him.

As always when danger threatened, he became still and wary, much more resourceful than ordinarily, as if perils were needed to render him complete.