As for Luke, Hector's underling and the man on the ground with Perry, he is another of Mr. le Carré's perfect spies: a man not entirely sure of his own identity but eager to belong to something larger than himself, a man ill at ease with his own family and really only in his element when he's at work.
By pointing at Sadiq Khan and emphasising his supposed otherness, and alleging connections with extremism, Goldsmith was – in a bleak paradox – portraying himself as an extremist, albeit of a different sort: a man ill at ease with the city he aspired to govern.
Wittgenstein's familiar, intense face peers through a coffee stain from the light green cover, bearing the look of a man ill at ease with the world, like some secular saint whose distance from the rest of humanity is both his gift and his curse.
Abramovich sits with arms folded, looking like a man ill at ease.
This year, when the man fell ill with Alzheimer's, Mr. Archilla called him and they reconciled.
In June 2003, this man became ill with fever, diaphoresis, headache, nausea, and anorexia.
Four weeks later, the man became ill with a temperature up to 39°C, malaise, pain in the right arm, headache, feeling of extreme dryness in the mouth, and difficulty swallowing.
Nick marvels at the swift recovery of men deathly ill with scurvy when they were given fresh greens or rob.
When one of the men became ill with a terminal disease, the devoted couple decided to marry before he died.
The final blow comes after lunch, when Pomroy asks us to imagine we are deep in the jungle, when a man falls seriously ill with malaria.
