Jon, watching the chaos unfold, is in shock. A Stark in spirit if not blood, he comes to the aid of a woman before she’s raped by a fellow soldier, but mostly, he’s struck dumb by the needless violence playing out around him, eventually able to do little more than exhort everyone to fall back and flee the city.

A little after Zeluco came of age, the aunt fixed her eyes on him as a commodious match for her niece.

He … invites Britain to treat her sister island with kindness and confidence. He deems peace attainable, and thinks that the interests of the empire require that it should be sought.

[…] you might wrest the Caduceus out of my hand, to the adultery and spoil of Nature […]