A Man at Arms

by Steven Pressfield

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life. TELAMON OF ARCADIA, MERCENARY OF THE PRE- AND POST-CHRISTIAN ERA

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When she addressed the man-at-arms, which she did repeatedly, interrupting him in the middle of a question or speaking before he had put one forward, it was with such prodigality as is taken in affairs only by one personally wronged in the most intimate and grievous manner, as a lover spurned or a comrade played false.

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