• He never was the same after that girl, if you’ll pardon my saying so, missus
• Frustrated nighttime moor-walking
• ‘Twas the mines
• Cuckoldry-induced lung troubles
• His best friend held the knife!
• Unspecified moral turpitude
• Things never were like they ought to have been round here ever since he came back from the War so changed, mum
• Never went to Eton but tried to be friends with men who went to Eton
• His secrets, what only the boy he brought back with him from Cairo knew the likes of
• The pitiless Sea!

Things Men In Literature Have Died From (via penguinrandomhouse)