Weeks did not have to pass before it was forced upon his knowledge that Tuesday, the fourteenth (let us say), had been a good Tuesday.

He knew it the moment he waked at 7 A.M.and perceived the Tuesday sunshine making patterns of bright light upon the floor.

The sunshine rejoiced him and the knowledge that even before breakfast there was vouchsafed to him a whole hour of life.

That day began with attentions to his physical well-being.

There were exercises conducted with great vigor and rejoicing, followed by a tub, artesian cold, and a loud and joyous singing of ballads.
At fifty R.H.D.might have posed to some Praxiteles and, copied in marble, gone down the ages as "statue of a young athlete." He stood six feet and over, straight as a Sioux chief, a noble and leonine head carried by a splendid torso.