![]() ![]() It isn't only your own but the Corps' affair if you snuff it, and mine too." ![]() "I have bit my tongue a dozen times over, because I know it is wretched hard to sit about watching and you haven't been trained up to it, but you are a captain, and you must be more careful of your neck. Granby, you overstate the case, and you overstep your bounds." "Temeraire, this is plain exaggeration," Laurence said. "If the party are sure to be killed, I am not going to let anyone go!" Temeraire said, in high alarm, and sat up sharp, quite prepared to physically hold anyone back who made an attempt to leave. Temeraire, you are not to let him go, do you hear me? He is sure to be killed I give you my word." I am not going back to England to tell them I sat about twiddling my thumbs whilst you got yourself cut to pieces. Send you off to go scrambling about in that warren with no notion where you are going, and nothing more likely than running into a dozen guards round every corner I should like to see myself do it. ![]() ![]() "No, this time I damned well put my foot down, Laurence. "Oh, the devil you will!" Granby exclaimed furiously. “I think we must only a few of us go," Laurence said, low. ![]()
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