little-indulgences

Updated: August 22, 2026

Of course all this made up the sum total of a pretty good snack I mean a good, well-sustained feast but whether it was owing to the excellence of the viands, or to the fact that we took our pleasures not sadly but deliberately, I for one cannot remember ever feeling the worse for my little-indulgences. Perhaps something was owing to the glorious continuity of our feasting and pleasure.

Thomas Anderton - A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham: Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"