Fics like Old Men's Bodies

Francis is back in England, newly knighted, lacking a hand and feeling unsteady in his body. He and James recover together and reconnect with Sophia Cracroft. They made him walk and then they made him kneel. The sword cold and heavy on his shoulder. It made Francis think of the North; of the mutineers, their violence; of his long and final humiliation, that walk, his near total defeat. But here he was alive and kneeling, all dressed up his epaulettes and his proper boots and his big hat. He could hardly hold his head up under it. But he bore it, the parade and the kneeling. Kept his knees from buckling, just about. Walking, in England and knighted. “You look handsome,” James had said to him, helping him dress that morning and – worse – James had meant it.

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