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[CatMtn at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/5/2007 12:22:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
tadler at yeshivanet.com writes:

don't  forget: when we meet ryoval, he only looked like a handsome young  
aristocrat.  actually he was over one hundred (i think) and had  plenty of 
experience in pure nastyness, as well as nasty ideas for hire,  since he had 
committed patricide, fratricide[1], adn torture of sisters  and pretty 
younger brothers.  baron fell was one of hte younger  brothers, (was he 12 
when he and lily climbed thru the sewers? [2]) and he  was seriously feeling 
his age.

metzov, on the other hand, was  heading for upper middle age.  he wasn't old 
enough to retire  yet.  he was definitely nasty, and to be tossed out of the 
barrayaran  army for nastyness takes some doing [3], but he had no refinement 
at  it.



M:
 
That's pretty much what I meant by his having more scope for  villainy.  More 
money, more power, more years, and fewer laws.   Doesn't Miles make a comment 
somewhere that Jackson's Whole has equal  justice--they'd sell it to anybody?
 
Mary