"I hope not," said she; "but it is impossible to judge by what he says; for through the sharpest pain of the attack he never complained." I admire him more, I think, than any man whom I know.

He is only fifty-seven, or fifty-eight.

He is precisely the man to whom health would be particularly valuable; for he has the keenest zest for those pleasures which health would enable him to enjoy.

He is, however, an invalid, and a cripple.

He passes some weeks of every year in extreme torment.