Deep chairs and sofas, with devices for books and light, and for writing in any position.

"When my mind is at work," he said to me once, "I don't like to be reminded of my body at all.

I want to forget that I have one; and so I always say my prayers lying down." He dressed badly, or rather carelessly, for he never gave the subject a moment's thought.

If his friends told him that a suit was shabby, he appeared in a day or two in a new one, till that was similarly noticed; then it was discarded altogether.

He always wore one suit till he had worn it out, never varying it.