 If not for money, what then ?" "What has brought your excellency into the field? For what do you daily and hourly expose your precious life to battle and the halter ? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their all for our country?...  The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground - Page 274by James Fenimore Cooper - 1824Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1825 - 328 pages
...daily and hourly expose your precious life to battle and the halter? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as your excellency risk their all for...gold will I touch ; poor America has need of it all !" VOL. III. O 289 The bag dropped from the hand of the officer and fell at the feet of the pedlar,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 480 pages
...your precious life to battle and the halter ? What is there about me to mourn, ^rhen such men as you risk their all for our country ? No — no — no...pedler, where it lay neglected during the remainder of the interview. The officer looked steadily at the face of his companion, and continued — • " There... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 490 pages
...life to battle and the halter ? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their al 1 for our country ? No — no — no — not a dollar...officer, and fell at the feet of the pedler, where it lay negleeted during the remainder of the interview. The officer looked steadily at the face of his companion,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 486 pages
...your precious life to battle and the halter ? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their all for our country ? No — no — no...the hand of the officer, and fell at the feet of the pcdler, where it lay neglected during the remainder of the interview. The officer looked steadily at... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 pages
...your precious life to battle and the halter? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their all for our country ? No, no, no, — not...pedler, where it lay neglected during the remainder of the interview. The officer looked steadily at the face of his companion, and continued, — " There... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 pages
...your preoious life to battle and the halter? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their all for our country? No, no, no, — not...your gold will I touch ; poor America has need of it nil !" The bng dropped from the hand of the officer, and fell at the feet of the pedler, where it lay... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1880 - 242 pages
...your precious life to battle and the halter ? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their all for our country? No — no — no —...the hand of the officer, and fell at the feet of the peddler, where it lay neglected during the remainder of the interview. The officer looked steadily... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 234 pages
...your precious life to battle and the halter ? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their all for our country ? No — no — no...the hand of the officer, and fell at the feet of the peddler, where it lay neglected during the remainder of the interview. The officer looked steadily... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 548 pages
...your precious life to battle and the halter? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as you risk their all for our country ? No, no, no ! Not...the hand of the officer and fell at the feet of the peddler, where it lay neglected during the remainder of the interview. The officer looked steadily... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 484 pages
...their all for our eountry ? No — no — no — not a dollar of your gold will I toueh ; poor Ameriea has need of it all !" The bag dropped from the hand of the offieer, and fell at the feet of the pedler, where it lay negleeted during the remainder of the interview.... | |
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