When Christian reaches an English camp, his cousin Marcus even has trouble recognizing him and it is his horse, Marcus took care of him, which assures everyone this is indeed his former owner.
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Why didn't the French just kill him? See, Girard, Christian's main guard/torturer has skillfully and perhaps irrationally kept Christian on the edge of life and death, even when it became apparent that Christian would not reveal any army secrets. When Christian is released, he is severely malnourished and mentally and physically damaged.
Why is a Duke in the cavalry at all? Apparently my friends, even a Duke's life can be described as all that glitters in not gold. Why is an officer and peer of the realm not afforded the usually respect? Well, Christian was captured when he was out of uniform, he was bathing, and this means he is accounted as a spy. The Duke of Mercia, Christian, is taken prisoner by the French and systematically tortured over a couple months.
This story is red wine, it's deep, dark, alluring, and multilayered, and will probably not fit the taste palete of the average reader.
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