“I
can’t forgive him for what he did to those poor prisoners of ours, of course,
but I suppose some capricious cruelty is probably necessary in a ruler. All in all, I think, and judging him by the
standards of our own monarchy, we should have to give the Tippoo fairly high
marks.”
“So why the hell are we fighting him, sir?”
McCandless
smiled. “Because we want to be here, and
he doesn’t want us to be here. Two dogs
in a small cage, Sharpe.”
(from Sharpe’s
Tiger by Bernard Cornwell)
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