"He would have made a good soldier." I raised my eyebrows in greater surprise. Modena wasn't just meek, it… — Gregory David Roberts
"He would have made a good soldier."
I raised my eyebrows in greater surprise. Modena wasn't just meek, it seemed to me then, he was a weak man. I couldn't imagine what Abdullah meant. I didn't know then that good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
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