Sharpe's prey by Bernard Cornwell

Author:Bernard Cornwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780060002527
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2002.
Published: 2008-06-04T23:00:00+00:00

"A foundling home. Same thing. Wasn't quite like this, though. They made us work."

"The children work here too!" she said sternly. "The girls learn to sew and the boys must learn to be sailors, see?" She had led him back into the courtyard where she pointed to a tall flagpole that was rigged like a ship's mast. "The boys must learn to climb it, and the girls make all those flags."

Sharpe listened to the sound of laughter. "It wasn't like this," he said. A dozen children, all in gray dresses or breeches, were playing a complicated game of tag about the flagpole. Three crippled children and one idiot, a girl with her head cocked sideways who twitched and dribbled and made small mewing noises, watched from wicker chairs equipped with wheels. "They seem happy," Sharpe said.

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