He was not ambitious enough to shove his way past others, or to make an important parade of doing nothing when there was really nothing doing. It was partly this, no doubt, that had made his success in the Service less striking than it might have been.
Both were included in his job, and he made the best of them, but he was always ready to give way to any one else who could function as well or better. No one was capable of harder work, when it had to be done, and few could better shoulder responsibility but the facts remained that he was not passionately fond of activity, and did not enjoy responsibility at all.
“There was also in his nature a trait which some people might have called laziness, though it was not quite that.
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