heart-cord

Updated: May 2, 2025

But there is no accounting for a soldier's moods, and something told him something deep down inside him that he could neither name nor understand that he was out now on the adventure of a lifetime, and that the heart-cord which had held him tight to England all these years had been cut. He felt gloomy and dispirited, but not a man of the nine who followed him had the slightest inkling of it.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East