“Have you ever seen yourself smile? You look like an old soldier.”
He shifted slightly in his seat, embarrassed.
“I don’t know any old soldier smiles.”
“Well I do.” The girl’s eyes darkened. She was searching in her memory. “Once I knew ten thousand men looking for the sea.”
Arturo Pérez-Reverte –The Dumas Club–
(translation by Sonia Soto)
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