Jame Retief - Quote

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"Retief..." Hidebinder glared across the table. "I'm not going to press civil charges... However, I may as well tell you at once - your future with the Corps is non-existent. A trifling embezzlement of official funds, I could wink at. Embellished reports, slack performance of duty, cowardice in the face of the enemy - these I could shrug off as youthful peccadilloes. But foot-dragging in the carrying out of Corps policy-" his fist thumped the desk. "Intolerable!"

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