“I still don’t know what they saw in him,” Cooper said quietly. “I’ve always thought he looked so . . . plain.” “That’s why they loved him,” Kit said, “and love him still, or at least some of them. He was a student who became a general; a general who became an emperor. He is a man of infinite ambition, who succeeded, or nearly, at his aims. Everyone wants to succeed.” “You sound as if you admire him,” Cooper said. “I don’t admire him. I admire his talents. He has a nimble mind and a strong will. And if he’d used them to help his people, rather than himself, the world might be a very different
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