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He was now fifty-three years of age, still retaining the air and vigour of a man in his very prime, which, no doubt, he owed as much as to anything to his abstemious and singularly sparing table-habits.
Striker's table-habits, a circumstance which created in Kenneth's questing mind the conviction that she was not new to these parts, despite the garments and airs of the fastidious East. They were vastly interested in the account of his journey through the wilderness. "Nowadays," said Striker, "most people come up the river, 'cept them as hail from Ohio.
The rhythmical tendency which is traceable in all departments of social life which is illustrated in the access of despotism after revolution, or, among ourselves, in the alternation of reforming epochs and conservative epochs which, after a dissolute age, brings an age of asceticism, and conversely, which, in commerce, produces the recurring inflations and panics which carries the devotees of fashion from one absurd extreme to the opposite one; this rhythmical tendency affects also our table-habits, and by implication, the dietary of the young.
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