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`` Not necessarily , '' said Ashe . `` I could eat two portions of that at this very minute and go off to bed and sleep like a little child . '' Mr. Peters raised himself on his elbow and stared at him . They were in the millionaire 's bedroom , the time being one in the morning , and Mr. Peters had expressed a wish that Ashe should read him to sleep . He had voted against Ashe 's novel and produced from the recesses of his suitcase a much-thumbed cookbook . He explained that since his digestive misfortunes had come on him he had derived a certain solace from its perusal . It may be that to some men sorrow 's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things ; but Mr. Peters had not found that to be the case .