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'in exasperation he doubled the gold in his palm and held it out again with a pointed look at the baby lying scarcely covered in its cradle, the young matron of the house looked at him with mute reproach, and pushed his fingers closed over it before she pointed at the door.'

Laurence, Laurence, what's she gonna get with your gold if you soldiers buy all the food

Everything is pointing to this battle being absolute slaughter and I'm frickin' stress eating

I will never recover from this heart wrenching paragraph