“There's no chance of cheering him up, sir. He likes being miserable, so he does, and the bastard will get over it.”

Sergeant Patrick Harper to Lieutenant Robert Knowles, regarding Captain Sharpe's grumpy attitude, p. 9
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Gold (1981)

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