...sword was driven into the wound ; an officer attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, ' It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go off the field with me.' He continued to converse calmly, and even cheerfully ; once only his voice...

...against him — " the sword he had never disgraced " — the General said faintly, " No, Harding ; it is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The men shed tears as they bore their dying commander, for in him the soldier had not destroyed the...

...Viscount) Hardinge endeavoured to unbuckle the belt to take it off ; when he said with soldierly feeling, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " His serenity was so striking, that Hardinge began to hope the wound was not mortal : he expressed...

...painfully inconvenient, he refused the kind offices of those who would have removed it, remarking — " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was removed in a blanket by six soldiers, who evinced their sympathy by tears ; and when a spring-...

...officer, who happened to be near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saving, ' w :' and in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight." From the spot where...

...wound. Hardinge would have unbuckled the belt, and have taken, it o^Vro&.xSoffc : dying soldier said, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Hardinge again began to hope, and to say that he hoped the wound would not prove mortal. " No, Hardinge,"...

...officer, who happened to be near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' Tt is as well as it is: I had rather it should go out of the field with me :' and in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was bome from the fight." From the spot where he...

...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off ; but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." And in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, he was borne from the fight by his devoted men, who went...

...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' His strength was failing fast, and life was just extinct, when, with an unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating...

...against him — " the sword he had never disgraced " — the General said faintly, '* No, Harding ; it is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The men shed tears as they tore their dying commander, for in him the soldier bad not destroyed the...