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Most of them were poor; not an honest poverty, but a sham and artificial poverty the inability to dress as others did, and to lose money at "bridge" and "poker", and to pay the costs of their self-indulgences.
Those tenement people had no more notion of self-restraint than had the "better classes" whose self-indulgences maintain the vast army of doctors and druggists.
The sense of her presence was deepened by the fact of those childlike self-indulgences which Alderling's words recalled to me. I made no comment, however, and he asked gloomily, as if with a return of his suspicion, "And you haven't heard of anything happening afterward?" "I don't know what you refer to," I told him, "but I can safely say I haven't, for I haven't heard anything at all."
He has some, and thinks himself lucky, since the bond between the pair is of such a nature as to involve a real partnership a partnership full of perplexity to the working member of it, the ordinary forensic creature of senses, passions, ambitions, and self-indulgences, the eating, sleeping, vainglorious, assertive male of common experience and it is not to be denied that it has been fruitful, nor again that by some freak of fate or fortune the house has kept a decent front to the world at large.
We are at the mercy of our own character, which has been wrongly moulded and formed amiss by the sins and follies, the self-indulgences and the moral slackness of our own past behaviour. We are, indeed, "tied and bound by the chain of our sins." To have realized so much is to have reached the necessary starting- point of any fruitful consideration of the Christian Gospel of redemption.
This has been the notion of artistic genius which has spread among us of late years, just in proportion as the real amount of artistic genius has diminished; till we see men, on the mere ground of being literary men, too refined to keep accounts, or pay their butchers' bills; affecting the pettiest absurdities in dress, in manner, in food; giving themselves credit for being unable to bear a noise, keep their temper, educate their own children, associate with their fellow-men; and a thousand other paltry weaknesses, morosenesses, self-indulgences, fastidiousnesses, vulgarities for all this is essentially vulgar, and demands, not honour and sympathy, but a chapter in Mr.
See how you live; see how you are taken care of, with a maid, I've never had a maid, papa, as you know, thought them self-indulgences, see how you dress," she cast a glance upon the refinements of her mother's black. "How I dress, my child! May I ask what that dress you have on cost you?" "I believe only in getting the best. This, for the best, was inexpensive. One hundred dollars."
Romance, like port wine, after-dinner slumbers, flannel next the skin, and such self-indulgences, should be reserved as a luxury for after-life; under no circumstances must it be permitted to impair the efficiency of manhood in its prime. Dick Stanmore took his punishment with true British pluck and pertinacity. It was a "facer."
Lee, beside his brother, resembled a whirlpool of dust temporarily formed by the wind in a road. Daniel had never married, he had been too cunning for that fragrant trap, as well. What were his vices? But were habits, self-indulgences, held in the background, ruthlessly subordinated to primary activity, vices?
He tried to be economical, and to break himself of his bad habits of chewing, drinking, and other self-indulgences, for a little while, and then sunk down into his old ways and went on as usual.
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