Is it long since you've taken to it ?" "I've...

I've only put it on to-day." "And do you take your constitutional?
Do you go for a four-mile walk every day as the doctor told you to ?" "N-not...

always." "I knew you didn't! I felt sure of that when I was in Switzerland!" she cried irritably.

"Now you must go not four but six miles a day! You've grown terribly slack, terribly, terribly! You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit....

You shocked me when I first saw you just now, in spite of your red tie, _quelle idee rouge_! Go on about Von Lembke if you've really something to tell me, and do finish some time, I entreat you, I'm tired." "_En un mot,_ I only wanted to say that he is one of those administrators who begin to have power at forty, who, till they're forty, have been stagnating in insignificance and then suddenly come to the front through suddenly acquiring a wife, or some other equally desperate means....
That is, he has gone away now...