[Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookArms and the Woman CHAPTER XII 26/27
It is the only place in the world to die--on a battlefield.
Fear passes away as a cloud from the face of the sun. The enemy is bringing you glory--or death.
Yes, I would give a good deal for a regiment, and a bad moment for our side.
But the regiment non est; still, there is left--" "Dan, what are you talking about ?" I cried. "Death; grim, gaunt and gray death, whose footstep is as noiseless as the fall of snow; death, the silent one, as the Indian calls him." He knocked the ash from his pipe and stuffed the briar into his pocket. "Jack, I am weary of it all.
If I cannot die artistically, I wish to die a sudden and awful death.
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