At least I daresay they were bad enough.

I wasn't there long enough to find out.

But I shouldn't have died of the drains in any case.

I'm not the kind of man who catches diseases." Sir Gilbert's chest swelled a little as he spoke, and he slowly puffed out a large cloud of smoke.

He was justly proud of his physical health, and was accustomed to hurl defiance at microbes and to heap contempt on the doctor's art.
"I'm sure you're not," said Miss King dutifully.
"What I should have died of," said the judge, "if I had died, would have been starvation.