All our family have wretched constitutions.

If I go to work regularly for a couple of months without a holiday, I sink into absolute decrepitude.

An office-chair has been specially made for me, to hold me up at the desk .-- I beg your pardon for this clowning, Mrs.
Widdowson,' he suddenly added in another voice.

'The air puts me in such spirits.

What air it is! Speaking quite seriously, my mother was saved by coming to live here.