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`` You speak as though you had a monopoly of that form of exercise . I must say you did n't appear to be enjoying yourself . Your aspect was wholly funereal and your demeanor that of a man with a certain number of miles wished on him . '' `` Four a day , '' Archie confessed with an air of resignation ; `` two in the morning and two before dinner . '' `` Then you were doing your morning lap when I passed you . Only four miles a day ? '' `` By the doctor 's orders , '' he assented with the wistful smile that usually evoked sympathetic murmurs in feminine auditors .