Jeffrey, indeed, never goes to bed till sleep comes on him overpoweringly, and never rises till forced up by business or hunger.

He is extremely well in health; so that I could not help suspecting him of being very hypochondriac; for all his late letters to me have been filled with lamentations about his various maladies.

His wife told me, when I congratulated her on his recovery, that I must not absolutely rely on all his accounts of his own diseases.

I really think that he is, on the whole, the youngest-looking man of fifty that I know, at least when he is animated.
His house is magnificent.

It is in Moray Place, the newest pile of buildings in the town, looking out to the Forth on one side, and to a green garden on the other.