as, he has to remind herself, many a solider has and many a soldier will do. sharpe himself carries scars from moments where his own sense of self-preservation had -- just for a moment -- slipped. but the difference isn't that they weren't children, for many of them were too young to shave. it was that those men had enlisted.
and the games -- as he understood them -- were not a war. they were like the dog-fighting pits in st. giles, where sharpe had spent many an evening in his youth. no finer place to pick pockets.
only he didn't like the notion of these children playing dogs and biting at each others' necks until they bled. it sickened him. ]
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as, he has to remind herself, many a solider has and many a soldier will do. sharpe himself carries scars from moments where his own sense of self-preservation had -- just for a moment -- slipped. but the difference isn't that they weren't children, for many of them were too young to shave. it was that those men had enlisted.
and the games -- as he understood them -- were not a war. they were like the dog-fighting pits in st. giles, where sharpe had spent many an evening in his youth. no finer place to pick pockets.
only he didn't like the notion of these children playing dogs and biting at each others' necks until they bled. it sickened him. ]
It means you've nothing to go back to, don't it?