"You are very hungry," he said.
"I am, sir." It is my way -- it always was my way, by instinct --
ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.
"It is well for you that a low fever has forced you to abstain for
the last three days: there would have been danger in yielding to
the cravings of your appetite at first. Now you may eat, though
still not immoderately."
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