Crazy sessions on the turps were all part of the culture.

a thyroid personality

Elsewhere, within the walls of other charity houses, orphans' voices chorused hymns or recitations from Scripture, […]

But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods.