the radication of habits

a well done steak

I watched him from the side as he strode along. His walk was quite different; his face too looked tauter.

And if you were only to see the sums which those thoughtless young lads, who have ten times more money than wit to guide it, throw away on useless nigg-nyes, while thousands around them are pinched for the necessaries of life, it would make the very hair of your head, my dear Archy, stand up like the locks of Medusa.