overheat

Updated: June 12, 2025

This very day you shall taste of our vintage, which I have hitherto withheld from you, lest it should overheat your languid blood. Many other questions did Basil ask concerning the rule of the monastery. During summer, the cooler hours of morning and afternoon were spent in the field, and the middle of the day in study; winter saw this order reversed.

George Gissing - Veranilda