...staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him saying, ' It is well as it is. I had rather it should go out of (he field with me.' " Thus was the hero borne from the field of battle. He died before night, and was...

...to Hardinge, who attempted to remove his sword, that the dying hero addressed the energetic words, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" to the same gentleman, and to Col. Anderson, Sir John Moore expressed his satisfaction at falling as...

...him away, the hilt of his sword entered the wound: Captain Harding would have taken it off, but Moore stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me !" It was a long way to the town, and the torture of the motion was great, but the expression of his...

...began to unbuckle it, but the General said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, 'It is as well as it is: I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Six soldiers of the 42d and the Guards bore him. Hardinge, observing his composure, began to hope that...

...sword was driven into the wound ; an officer attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, ' It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go off the field with me.' He continued to converse calmly, and even cheerfully ; once only his voice...

...painfully inconvenient, he refused the kind offices of those who would have removed it, remarking — " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was removed in a blanket by six soldiers, who evinced their sympathy by tears ; and when a spring-...

...against him — " the sword he had never disgraced " — the General said faintly, " No, Harding ; it is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The men shed tears as they bore their dying commander, for in him the soldier had not destroyed the...

...Viscount) Hardinge endeavoured to unbuckle the belt to take it off ; when he said with soldierly feeling, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " His serenity was so striking, that Hardinge began to hope the wound was not mortal : he expressed...

...wound. Hardinge would have unbuckled the belt, and have taken, it o^Vro&.xSoffc : dying soldier said, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Hardinge again began to hope, and to say that he hoped the wound would not prove mortal. " No, Hardinge,"...

...officer, who happened to be near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saving, ' w :' and in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight." From the spot where...