"I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen."

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What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.

— Dorothy Dunnett