self-saturnalia

Updated: May 22, 2025

For days together he would drink nothing but water, eat nothing but bread, or hard biscuit, or a couple of eggs; then, having wound up some allotted portion of work, Ardworth would indulge what he called a self-saturnalia, would stride off with old college friends to an inn in one of the suburbs, and spend, as he said triumphantly, "a day of blessed debauch!"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Lucretia — Complete