The Baronet. Book 2. Part 1

— Baron, these townspeople have already repelled three assaults! What next?
— a full-grown man, fifty years old, with sparse short hair sticking up in every direction and looking like a halo, with brown eyes slightly bulging—raised the cup and asked his interlocutor.
They were alone in the tent.
— Maybe it’s time to start ravaging their lands, then, perhaps, this cowardly little baron will crawl out from behind the city walls and, at last, behave like a man—fighting openly together with us?!”