"I wouldn't mention the boy if I were you. He was in the Foreign Service and blotted his copybook as I dare say you know. It was quite a tragedy. It's never mentioned."
"Is it not? What sort of a man was Colonel Carterette?"
"Pig-headed, quixotic fellow. Obstinate as a mule. One of those pathetically conscientious people who aim so high they get a permanent crick in their conscience."
(from Scales of Justice, by Dame Ngaio Marsh)
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