 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
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 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... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 238 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 544 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...your gold will I touch : poor America has need of The bag dropped from the hand of the officer and fell at the feet of the peddler, where it lay neglected... | |
 | 1902 - 784 pages
...your precious life to battle and the halter? What is there about me to mourn, when such men as vou 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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - Readers - 1908 - 360 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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - Readers - 1908 - 360 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...gold will I touch; poor America has need of it all! " many motives which might govern me, that to you are unknown. Our situations are different: I am known... | |
 | Marion Florence Lansing - College and school drama - 1914 - 264 pages
...think that I have exposed my life, and blasted my character for money ? " "For what, then?" for their country ? No, no, no — not a dollar of your gold will I touch ; poor America has need of it all I" The bag dropped from the hand of the officer, and fell at the feet of the peddler, where it lay... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson, Helen Winslow Dickinson Dickinson - United States - 1917 - 356 pages
...money, what then?" 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 a...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... | |
 | Patriotism - 1919 - 168 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... | |
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