He was clad, I remember, in his flowing brocade dressing-gown, as was his custom before he set off for his club, and his foot was extended upon a stool--for Abernethy had just been in to treat him for an incipient attack of the gout.
Il était vêtu, je m'en souviens, de son ample habit de brocart, qu'il portait ordinairement pour aller à son club, et il avait le pied posé sur une chaise, car Abernethy, qui venait de sortir, le traitait pour un commencement de goutte.