If I went to the office at all, he said, I must ride in early, and ride out in the evening.

So much fresh air and exercise were imperative, and I must eat two solid meals a day under no less careful an eye than that of my mother.
She was delighted.

She thought (even more than usual) that Doctor Brown was a very Solomon in spectacles, and I quite agreed with her.

The few words that followed gave a slight shock to her favourable opinion of his wisdom, but I need hardly say that it confirmed mine.
He had given me a kindly slap on the shoulder, which happened at that moment to be the sorest point in my body, and I was in no small pain from head to foot.

I only tightened my lips, but I suppose he bethought himself of what he had done, and he looked keenly at me and said, "You can bear pain, Master Jack ?" "Oh, Jack's a very brave boy," said my dear mother.