In health I am as well as ever I was in my life.

Time glides fast.

One day is so like another that, but for a habit which I acquired soon after I reached India of pencilling in my books the date of my reading them, I should have hardly any way of estimating the lapse of time.

If I want to know when an event took place, I call to mind which of Calderon's plays, or of Plutarch's Lives, I was reading on that day.

I turn to the book; find the date; and am generally astonished to see that, what seems removed from me by only two or three months, really happened nearly a year ago.
I intend to learn German on my voyage home, and I have indented largely, (to use our Indian official term), for the requisite books.