greenjacketed: (♖ everyone's got a mother tom)
major richard sharpe ([personal profile] greenjacketed) wrote in [personal profile] trinkett 2013-07-19 12:49 am (UTC)

"...Flummoxed?"

Because that was how the books made him feel. They were thick, and cramped with words. Words he barely knew -- where were the regimental notations? The place names? The lines of the quartermaster's list? His vocabulary was limited by his experience, and the moment he tripped across words which didn't crop up in army life? He was lost.

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