Naturally inclined to obesity, I am restricted to a dry diet.

I shook Rouletabille, but could not succeed in waking him.
This, no doubt, was the work of Mademoiselle Stangerson.
She had certainly thought it necessary to guard herself against this young man as well as her father.

I recalled that the steward, in serving us, had recommended an excellent Chablis which, no doubt, had come from the professor's table.
More-than a quarter of an hour passed.

I resolved, under the pressing circumstances, to resort to extreme measures.

I threw a pitcher of cold water over Rouletabille's head.