Here at Mizpah, days remained above freezing and nights, as yet, sel-dom dropped far below it. The Lagoan officer spoke good Algarvian, and didn't try totuni it into Sibian, as Ramalho ineptly kept doing. Talsu couldn't argue with any of that, not even to himself - had heproposed to argue with the colonel and count, jumping off a cliff wouldhave put him out of his rnisery faster and less messily. Hewas a veteran on Obuda, and the soldiers he led new-come reinforce-ments.
He had a stick in his hands and was looking now this way,now that, ready for anything that might happen to him. Droctulf s appearance, however, did not gratify the mar-shal. As far as he was concerned, for the moment survival and efficiency were one and the same. When they got back to the mansion, none of Krasta's servants was insight.
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