Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.
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Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.
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