Quote:
'Your career has been an inspiration to me. Is it really true that you
have Thrombosis of the Heart and Vesicular Emphy?sema of the Lungs?'
'That's right.'
'And that your temperature once went up to 107.5?'
'Twice. When I had Hyperpyrexia.'
Sir Aylmer sighed. '^єhe best I've ever done is 102.2.'
Joe Boffin patted him on the back. 'Well, that's not bad,' he said. 'Not
bad at all.'
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A man who is endeavouring to lower the record for the
dis?tance between Podagra Lodge, which is in Arterio-Sclerosis Avenue, and
the Droitgate Spa Pump Room has little leisure for thinking, but Freddie
managed to put in a certain amount as his feet skimmed the pavement. And
the trend of his thought was such as to give renewed vigour to his legs.
He could scarcely have moved more rapidly if he had been a character in a
two-reel film with the police after him.