They are all worked up, and keen for a chance to prove that they are braves in more than in name.

You give them the very opportunity you wish to avoid.
Now hear my plan," she continued, her voice eager, keen, hard, in the intensity of her purpose.

"I ride into camp to-morrow morning to see the sick boy.

I promised I would and I really want to.

I find him in a fever, for a fever he certainly will have.