"Six guineas."
"I'll give you five, old fellow."
"Then, old girl, they are yours. Where shall I send them, and to whom?"
"To the Duchess of ——."
"Oh! I beg Your Grace's pardon; I have been too familiar."
"Not at all. You treated me as I have treated you."
John Burton was an abstemious man, and believed that by moderate diet and moderation in drinking he would—and any man would—live to the age of a hundred. He had framed for himself a code of rules to ensure a long life.
1. Eight hours' sleep and that on your right side, and sleep with the bedroom window open. Fresh air is essential.
2. Do not have your bedstead against the wall, so that the air may circulate about you freely.
3. Take a glass of hot water on rising, and a bath at blood temperature, and take exercise before breakfast.