He is ingenious and full of devices; and he has luck, and luck goes for a great deal.
"I like him, too.

I have observed that he is always lively and cheery, even at the end of the longest day's work.

I notice too that, even though your relation, he never becomes too familiar; and his talk will be refreshing, when I want something to distract my thoughts from weighty matters." So Fergus went with the king, who could ill afford to lose Keith from his side.

With none was he more friendly and intimate and, now that Schwerin had gone, he relied upon him more implicitly than upon any other of his officers.
But Keith had been, for some time, unwell.

He was suffering from asthma and other ailments that rendered rapid travel painful to him; and he would obtain more rest and ease, in Bohemia, than he could find in the rapid journey the king intended to make.
On the fifth day of his march Frederick heard, to his stupefaction, that Schweidnitz had surrendered.