The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

by Lemony Snicket

You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

He wasn’t merely an unsavory drunken brute, but an unsavory, clever drunken brute.