The life I have led has kept me in health and vigor.

But you?
You are not a man who travels without gaining material." "I have had a few adventures, something like yours, only not so widely diversified.

I wrote some successful short stories about China once.
I have had some good sport, too, here and there." "You live well for a newspaper correspondent," suggested Breitmann, nodding at the bottle of twenty-eight-year-old Burgundy.
"Oh, it's a habit we Americans have," amiably.

"We rough it for a few months on bacon and liver, and then turn our attention to truffles and old wines and Cabanas at two-francs-fifty.

We are collectively, a good sort of vagabond.