In Court and Kampong _ Being Tales and Ske - Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

all this because he had had words with his wife, and, having gone further than he
had intended in the beginning, felt that it would be an unclean thing for him to
continue to live upon the surface of a comparatively clean planet. A white man
who had stabbed his wife in the heat of the moment might not improbably have
committed suicide in his remorse, which would have been far more convenient
for his neighbours; but that is one of the many respects in which a white man
differs from a Malay.