[But a few sharp words aren't enough to interrupt his attack of nerves. Edgeworth is stubborn and stalwart in most situations - brave, level-headed, able to absorb attacks fairly impartially. But he has some gaping vulnerabilities, and Snape just hammered hard away at one of the worst of them.
And so he mumbles, miserably - ]
I'm - sorry.
[Even though he doesn't wholly know what he's apologizing for or why. It might be simply out of shame - because overlaying all of this, the panic and the fear and the hatred, is humiliation; he is humiliated to be this undone in front of anyone, especially a man like this.]
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[But a few sharp words aren't enough to interrupt his attack of nerves. Edgeworth is stubborn and stalwart in most situations - brave, level-headed, able to absorb attacks fairly impartially. But he has some gaping vulnerabilities, and Snape just hammered hard away at one of the worst of them.
And so he mumbles, miserably - ]
I'm - sorry.
[Even though he doesn't wholly know what he's apologizing for or why. It might be simply out of shame - because overlaying all of this, the panic and the fear and the hatred, is humiliation; he is humiliated to be this undone in front of anyone, especially a man like this.]