->''That much, at least, his wife and daughters had been spared.
Spared, because by good fortune their own house had been seized
by Rajputs during the sack, not Ye-tai or common soldiers. A
Rajput cavalry troop, commanded by a young Rajput lord. A cold
man, that lord; arrogant and haughty as only a Rajput kshatriya
could be. The Rajputs had stripped their home of everything of
value, down to the linen. Had then eaten all the food, and drank
all the wine. But when the inevitable time came, and the
cavalrymen began eyeing their captured women, the Rajput officer
had simply said: "No."'' -->-- ''[[Literature/BelisariusSeries
An Oblique Approach]]''  The tendency of movies to depict the
villain's associated armies, tribes, barbarian hordes, and bands
of mercenaries as being prone to raping the women of a town
they're overrunning, while the armies, tribes, barbarian hordes,
and mercs that are working for the hero are usually clean of
this particular atrocity.  It would preclude all audience
sympathy to portray a h