If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing-flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. (Mervyn Peake)

If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing-flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it.

Mervyn Peake

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