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And you! You travel five thousand miles to save my life and leave me to be butchered!
— Robin · Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is an angry accusation of betrayal. The speaker points to the enormous distance the listener travelled to rescue them, then charges that they left them to be slaughtered anyway. The bitterness comes from the contrast between such a dramatic effort and the perceived failure at the crucial moment.
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