But then you see that was written of Syria, a hot dry country, where people live faster than in our temperate climate.
However, I don't think it matters much, so long as a man is healthy and happy while he _is_ alive.

But now, Guest, we are so near to my old kinsman's dwelling-place that I think you had better keep all future questions for him." I nodded a yes; and therewith we turned to the left, and went down a gentle slope through some beautiful rose-gardens, laid out on what I took to be the site of Endell Street.

We passed on, and Dick drew rein an instant as we came across a long straightish road with houses scantily scattered up and down it.

He waved his hand right and left, and said, "Holborn that side, Oxford Road that.

This was once a very important part of the crowded city outside the ancient walls of the Roman and Mediaeval burg: many of the feudal nobles of the Middle Ages, we are told, had big houses on either side of Holborn.