Following passage is cited from "Captain Singleton" by Daniel Defoe
William spoke this with so much warmth, and yet with so much assurance
of our fate, that I began to think a little of the risk I was going to
run. I had no more mind to be murdered than he; and yet I could not for
my life be so faint-hearted in the thing as he.
my question: What does "the thing" refer to?
he means that he could be that coward?
William spoke this with so much warmth, and yet with so much assurance
of our fate, that I began to think a little of the risk I was going to
run. I had no more mind to be murdered than he; and yet I could not for
my life be so faint-hearted in the thing as he.
my question: What does "the thing" refer to?
he means that he could be that coward?
