Patrick O'Brien's Life Versus the Plot

Richard Sharpe knew no home other than the regiment, no family except for his company. He had no belongings except what fitted into his pack and pouches. The formula that Cornwell uses for basically all of his historical novels is that he usually likes to take a smaller character driven story. There's like two paragraphs where sharp is like, I'm hanging out with all these rich guys, huh? And I don't know how to feel about it because I'm a man, I'm a common man.