But that was no consolation to me." "Were you much hurt ?" "No, not really; but the fall bruised my knee rather badly and gave me a deuce of a shake up.

I'm too old for that sort of thing, you know." "Most people are," said I.
"True; but you can take a cropper more gracefully at twenty than at fifty-five.

However, the knee is getting on quite well--you shall see it presently--and you observe that I am giving it complete rest.

But that isn't the whole of the trouble or the worst of it.

It's my confounded nerves.