I never remember you looking so ill.
This kind of thing won't do, John.

You'd soon kill yourself at this rate." "Not to be done, my dear fellow.

I am the toughest thing in creation.

I have been sitting up all night for the last week or so, and that does rather impair the freshness of one's complexion; but I assure you there's nothing so good for a man as a week or two of unbroken work.

I have been doing an exhaustive review of Roman literature for one of the quarterlies, and the subject involved a little more reading than I was quite prepared for." "And you have really not been ill ?" "Not in the least.