undomestic

Updated: September 10, 2025

These briefless barristers in the Temple men with private means, not obliged to hunt for work, with a little fancy for literature, and a little taste for the drama these idle youths, whose only idea of social intercourse is to be gossiping and drinking in one another's rooms all day long, living an undomestic life in chambers, without the public interests or athletic sports of a university these are the chosen victims of alcohol.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - The Golden Calf