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Peeps into their interiors reveal dirty, poorly furnished rooms, and large families, pigging squalidly together at meal times, while unkempt men and slatternly women lean from open windows, and scold in French, or chatter with crowds of ragged and bare-legged children, playing in the gutters.
He found to his amusement that the profligate were by many degrees duller than the pious, but that the most tedious of all were the persons who preached promiscuity, and called their system of "pigging" the "New Morality." He went back to the city lovingly, because it was built and adorned for his love.
But by the same token it is not his right to pretend that luxuries are necessities. That is to put himself into the same category with the man who always finds some other excuse for taking a drink than the simple one that he wants it. The Englishman's point of view is that he objects to "pigging it," as he says. "Pigging it" means changing your home habits in any way.
They say that a union of opposites makes the happiest marriage, and perhaps it is on the same principle that men who chum are always so oddly assorted. You shall find a man of letters sharing diggings with an auctioneer, and a medical student pigging with a stockbroker's clerk.
And what will Wood be able to do against those opposed to him? What a Cabinet! 'Misery, says Trinculo, 'makes one acquainted with strange bedfellows' so, it seems, does unlooked-for prosperity. Only fancy Granville, Clarendon, and the rest, pigging heads and tails with John Bright in the same truckle bed!
If you have been accustomed to eating your sardines after a meal, and somebody offers them to you first, that is "pigging it."
He explained how he came to be pigging in Soho: it was so frightfully convenient and so frightfully cheap. "Just why Rickie brings me," said Miss Pembroke. "And I suppose you're here to study life?" said Tilliard, sitting down. "I don't know," said Rickie, gazing round at the waiters and the guests. "Doesn't one want to see a good deal of life for writing?
"Hogs!" returned Randall. "A decent Hampshire hog would scorn to be lodged as many a knight and squire and lady too is now, pigging it in styes and hovels and haylofts by night, and pranking it by day with the best!" "Sooth enough," said Smallbones. "Yea, we have had two knights and their squires beseeching us for leave to sleep under our waggon!
"Next night, when we were pigging it at the Geant cabane, he started again on the same tack. He asked me how I accounted for the fact that animals could find their way back over great tracts of unknown country. I said I supposed it was the homing instinct. "'Rubbish, man, he said. 'That's only another name for the puzzle, not an explanation. There must be some reason for it.
My servants and porters did the best they could by pigging with the cattle, or lying in the shade under the eaves of the huts. Up to this point the villages, as is the case in all central Unyamuezi, are built on the most luxurious principles.
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