YOU OUGHT TO TELL THAT TO MOST OF THE KNIGHTS IN WESTEROS. MOST ONLY CARE ABOUT CAUSES THAT WILL ADVANCE THEM IN THE EYES OF THEIR LORDS.
[ is this man speaking truly? he was quite certain that such men only existed in tales or times long past.
or their names were Barristan Selmy. ]
HE DID NOT SEEM TO NOTICE. IF ANYTHING, HE WOULD FAVOUR OTHERS. WHEN I WOULD OFFER SUGGESTIONS TO HIM, HE WOULD DISMISS THEM, WHEN I TOLD HIM OF MEN WHO COMMITTED CRIMES UNDER HIS NOSE, HE WOULD LAUGH, AND TELL ME THAT WAS JUST THE WAY OF THINGS. I WAS HIS BROTHER, YET HE WOULD SCARCELY TREAT ME AS SUCH.
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[ is this man speaking truly? he was quite certain that such men only existed in tales or times long past.
or their names were Barristan Selmy. ]HE DID NOT SEEM TO NOTICE. IF ANYTHING, HE WOULD FAVOUR OTHERS. WHEN I WOULD OFFER SUGGESTIONS TO HIM, HE WOULD DISMISS THEM, WHEN I TOLD HIM OF MEN WHO COMMITTED CRIMES UNDER HIS NOSE, HE WOULD LAUGH, AND TELL ME THAT WAS JUST THE WAY OF THINGS. I WAS HIS BROTHER, YET HE WOULD SCARCELY TREAT ME AS SUCH.
[ is he bitter? he is certainly not bitter. ]