They have no stake in victory but our happiness their daily bread and nation would give them just to have peace and quiet. "But if we have more liberty than we ought," Laurence said, after a moment, struggling through, "it is because they have not enough: the dragons. He had assumed as much himself, after all, in his Navy days: had thought the Corps full of wild, devil-may-care libertines, disregarding law and authority as far as they dared, barely kept in check- to be used for their control over the beasts, and not respected.
― Naomi Novik, quote from Victory of Eagles “Temeraire, you cannot write so to your superior officers,” Laurence said, breaking off.” You had all better not stay where you are at present-“
Dorset had better come, too, and some of the other dragon-surgeons. “Oh, very well, pepper,” Temeraire said, and continuing his list of requests added, “I should very much like Keynes to come here, and also Gong Su, and Emily Roland, who has my talon-sheaths, and the rest of my crew and also we need some surgeons for the wounded me. “And canvas, we must have a lot of canvas-“ “Pepper, put in pepper,” another dragon said, craning her head over she was a middle-weight, yellowish striped with gray, some kind of cross-breed. Lloyd and our herdsmen have done very well, and I should to commend them to your attention, but there are a lot of us, and some more herdsmen would be very useful.” We do not need any rifles, and we have got plenty of powder and shot for our cannons,” Laurence wrote with a vivid awareness of the reactions this should produce, “but we are always in need of more cows and picks and sheep, and goats would also do, if a good deal easier to come by.
"Gentlemen, I am very happy to accept your commission, and we should like to be the eighty-first regiment, if that number is not presently taken. “He settled for writing a letter, in a quiet corner, while Temeraire dictated his own:
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