He had expected, if called upon to yield his life, to purchase with it some great good for his country.

But to perish uselessly as he is doing, as if bitten by a snake, is terrible.

Here we are.

I will tell you before we go in that he has a bullet wound through the body, just grazing an artery and it is only a question of a short time, and the slightest shock, when a fatal hemorrhage will ensue.

Be very quiet and careful." He untied a rope stretched across the entrance to a little wing of the building to keep unnecessary footsteps at a distance.
"How is he this morning ?" he asked of a gray-haired nurse seated in front of a door curtained with a blanket.
"Quiet and cheeful as ever," answered the nurse, rising and pulling the blanket aside that they might enter.
The face upon which Rachel's eyes fell when she entered the room impressed her as an unusual combination of refinement and strength.
Beyond this she noted little as to the details of the patient's countenance, except that he had hazel eyes, and a clear complexion asserting itself under the deep sun-burning.
When they entered he was languidly fanning himself with a fan which had been ingeniously constructed for him by some inmate, out of a twig of willow bent into a hoop, and covered by pasting paper over it.