Quotes About Protheroe

I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.

An opinionated boor," he [Dr. Stone about Colonel Protheroe] said with heat. "Yes, yes, I know he is dead, and no one should speak ill of the dead. But death does not alter facts. An opinionated boor describes him exactly...