morphia-habit

Updated: May 22, 2025

But the exposure of a bitter winter's night, risked in the struggle across one of the bleakest flats of the district to carry the Sacrament to a dying parishioner, had brought on a peculiar and agonising form of neuralgia. And from this pain, so nobly earned, had sprung oh! mystery of human fate! a morphia-habit, with all that such a habit means for mind and body.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Marcella