ten o'clock before
Christianity alone can make us good soldiers in any cause , for he who knows how to live , is always the least afraid to die . Pendennyss and his companions pushed their way over the ground occupied before the battle by the enemy ; descended into and through that little valley , in which yet lay , in undistinguished confusion , masses of the dead and dying of either side ; and again over the ridge , on which could be marked the situation of those gallant squares which had so long resisted the efforts of the horse and artillery by the groups of bodies , fallen where they had bravely stood , until even the callous Harmer sickened with the sight of a waste of life that he had but a few hours before exultingly contributed to increase . Appeals to their feelings as they rode through the field had been frequent , and their progress was much retarded by attempts to contribute to the ease of a wounded or a dying man ; but as the courier constantly urged speed , as the only means of securing the object of their ride , these halts were reluctantly abandoned . It was ten o'clock before they reached the farm-house , where , in the midst of hundreds of his countrymen , lay the former lover of Jane . As the subject of his confession must be anticipated by the reader , we will give a short relation of his life , and of those acts which more materially affect our history . Henry Egerton had been turned early on the world , hundreds of his countrymen , without any principle to counteract the arts of infidelity , or resist the temptations of life . His father held a situation under government , and was devoted to his rise in the diplomatic line .