life-traditions

Updated: May 24, 2025

And at the sound of that r-r-rip, and at the abhorrent touch of those coarse fingers, this man about town, this finished product of the nineteenth century, dropped his life-traditions and became a savage facing a savage. His face flushed, his lips curled back, he chattered his teeth like an ape, and his eyes those indolent eyes which had always twinkled so placidly were gorged and frantic.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Tragedy of the Korosko