| George Charles Moore Smith - 1903 - 496 страници
...master, to console him, said, smiling, ' My friend, this is nothing.' " He was then placed on a mattrass on the floor and supported by Anderson, who had saved...will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them — everything. Say to my mother ! ' Here his voice faltered, he became excessively agitated, and not... | |
| James Lumsden - 1903 - 360 страници
...wished to die this way." He then asked, " Are the French beaten ? I hope the people of England'will be satisfied. I hope my Country will do me justice. Anderson, you will see my friends as soon as possible. Tell them everything ! My mother " — Here his voice failed, and he was excessively agitated.... | |
| Margaret Bertha Synge - 1903 - 258 страници
...saw there was no hope. " You know I have always wished to die this way," whispered the dying man. " I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice," he added. And as night fell and the thunder of battle grew fainter and more faint, the hero of Coruna... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 страници
...unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed : " I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice." In a few minutes afterwards he died, and his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the... | |
| Herbert Strang - 1904 - 462 страници
...and the commanders who had served him and England so well during the bitter days of the retreat. " I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice." He spoke of Paget, asking to be remembered to him. "General Paget, I mean; he is a fine fellow." He... | |
| Walter Wood - 1910 - 284 страници
...this way," He lingered for a few hours at his lodgings, and just before he passed away he murmured : " I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice." It was almost a repetition of the glorious death of Nelson in Trafalgar Bay, 600 miles below Corunna,... | |
| William Morley Egglestone - 1912 - 132 страници
...I had rather it should go out of the field with me." As his officers gathered around him he said : "I hope the people of England will be satisfied ; I hope my people will do me justice." After some more touching conversation--" Death, undreaded, approached;... | |
| Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1914 - 500 страници
...He then asked, ' Are the French beaten ? ' which he repeated to every one he knew as they came in. ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied. ....will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them — everything. Say to my mother' — here his voice quite failed and he was excessively agitated.... | |
| Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1914 - 510 страници
...e then asked, ' Are the French beaten ?' which he repeated to every one he knew as they came in. ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied. ....Anderson— you will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them—everything. Say to my motner'—here his voice quite failed and he was excessively agitated.... | |
| Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1914 - 496 страници
...repeated to every one he knew as they came in. 4 1 hope the people of England will be satisfied. . . . 1 hope my country will do me justice. . . . Anderson...will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them— everything. Say to my mother' — here his voice quite failed and he was excessively agitated. 4 Hope... | |
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