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The Third Book of Swords Quotes
The Third Book of Swords
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“There had been another alliance that Mark had meant to ask for. But it was too late now. 'Sir Andrew has just been killed.'
'I know that.'
The calmness in the Emperor's voice seemed inhuman. Suddenly Mark's anger was not dead after all. 'He died not half a kilometer from here. If you would be our ally, why aren't you fighting harder on our side? Doing more?'
His father - it was suddenly possible now to think of this man also in those terms- was not surprised by the reproach, or perturbed either. He let go the stirrup, and stroked the riding beast's injured neck. Mark thought he saw, though afterward he was not sure, one of the small wounds there wiped away as if it had been no more than a dead leaf fallen on the skin. Mark's newly acceptable father said, "When you are as old as I am, my son, and able to understand as much, then you can intelligently criticize the way I am behaving now.”
― The Third Book of Swords
'I know that.'
The calmness in the Emperor's voice seemed inhuman. Suddenly Mark's anger was not dead after all. 'He died not half a kilometer from here. If you would be our ally, why aren't you fighting harder on our side? Doing more?'
His father - it was suddenly possible now to think of this man also in those terms- was not surprised by the reproach, or perturbed either. He let go the stirrup, and stroked the riding beast's injured neck. Mark thought he saw, though afterward he was not sure, one of the small wounds there wiped away as if it had been no more than a dead leaf fallen on the skin. Mark's newly acceptable father said, "When you are as old as I am, my son, and able to understand as much, then you can intelligently criticize the way I am behaving now.”
― The Third Book of Swords