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"After this," said the author, "I walk ten miles along a level road, and three through a hilly country, during the last mile of the latter practising the deep-breathing exercises so highly recommended by the medical faculty." Scratch, scratch, the pink cheek flag deepening with pleasure.
This scared me into abandoning the exercise as it seemed fraught with danger. Having read that deep and systematic breathing was considered by many as being the royal road to health for all whose stock of vitality is below par, I determined to give it a thorough trial. Deep-breathing was a pleasant exercise and easy to take; I kept it up for some time perhaps ten days.
'Gilles, Gilles, says he, 'be sure you get me alone in the world when next you strike at my back. Now get you up, Norman, and fight a flying enemy, if you please. I will await your return. De Gurdun saluted, but avoided his lord's face, and rode after the Turks. Des Barres stood, deep-breathing, by the King. 'Will he come back, sire? asked the French knight.
'You don't mean to say that you're thinking of her like that? she exclaimed. 'It's no use, Colin. 'Probably not, he answered composedly. 'Tell me, how does she take it? 'Deadly seriously. She's practising Deep-breathing and Concentration to try and drive the man from her thoughts. 'What! Oh, you mean Theosophy and that kind of thing.
We had collected enough evidence to hang him ten times over ... But that was the least of it. For your little old cipher, Dick, gave us a line on Ivery. I asked how, and Blenkiron told me the story. He had about a dozen cross-bearings proving that the organization of the 'Deep-breathing' game had its headquarters in Switzerland.
As I dozed and ruminated in the way a man does after fever, I was struck by the tremendous display of one advertisement in the English press. It was a thing called 'Gussiter's Deep-breathing System, which, according to its promoter, was a cure for every ill, mental, moral, or physical, that man can suffer.
I wasn't willing to be bored for any reward they had to offer me. It's cynical to be bored. It's the worst immorality there is. Well, and I never have been." It wasn't all autobiographical and narrative. There was a lot of his deep-breathing, spacious philosophy of life mixed up in it. And this the girl, consciously, and deliberately, provoked. It didn't need much.
If he could get to the telephone, well and good; but if he couldn't get past so many deep-breathing ladies, then he must break out of the front door and hunt me a cab on foot. I felt as if I were about to be immured within a harem. "He had scarcely dashed off when the host called my name several times outside the door. Then he knocked and walked in, uninvited.
The hot-water ordeal was gone through, the children were turned out speckless from their bedrooms, the bedclothes were put to air, and not even her own "deep-breathing exercises" were omitted. But then she missed Max and Lynn.
And this is more especially true if much exercise of this character is taken regularly, day after day, all the year round. But where the occupation and surroundings are such that one cannot indulge in such active pastimes, or where the time for such exercises is necessarily limited, frequent voluntary deep-breathing exercises can be highly commended.
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