It is so often all but impossible to get through the day's work, and yet it is wonderful how the foe can be held at bay when some task has to be done whether or not.
"But a truce to such talk! A soldier has other things to think of than aching joints and weary bones.

A man can but once die for his country, and that is all I ask to do.

That mine will not he a long life I feel a certain assurance.

All I ask is the power to serve my country as long as I am able, and to die for her, sword in hand, when the hour has come." The eyes kindled and the smile flashed forth.

Julian and Humphrey looked into the face of the man whom they had heard described as one of the most promising and intrepid young officers of the English army, and felt a thrill of admiration run through them.