He was absolutely without appetite.

An excellent omelette, and cutlets cooked to perfection, he sent away untasted--he, whose appetite never failed him, whose digestion was still equal to any demands on it! The day was bright and fine.

He sent for a gondola, and was rowed to the Lido.
Out on the airy Lagoon, he felt like a new man.

He had not left the hotel ten minutes before he was fast asleep in the gondola.

Waking, on reaching the landing-place, he crossed the Lido, and enjoyed a morning's swim in the Adriatic.