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Sir Ratcliffe, in general so grave, was to-day quite joyous, and produced a magnum of claret which he had himself discovered in the old cellars, and of which even Glastonbury, an habitual water-drinker, ventured to partake. As for Lady Armine, she scarcely ever ceased talking; she found a jest in every sentence, and seemed only uneasy when there was silence.
But, in common speech, we are apt to confound with it admonition: as when a friend reminds one that drink is prejudicial to the health, etc. We do not care to be told of that which we know better than the good man that admonishes. M sent to his friend L , who is no water-drinker, a two-penny tract 'Against the Use of Fermented Liquors. L acknowledged the obligation, as far as to twopence.
I had never heard of hydropathy, but I was heartily willing to sing its praises, and I have ever since been a resolute water-drinker. I lay down to rest after my exertions, but my cogitations were not of an agreeable character. I was in different moods.
Hence, youth seeks a preeminence in vice, and age in folly; hence, many boast of errors they would not commit, or claim distinction by investing themselves with an imputation of excess in some popular absurdity duels are courted by the daring, and vaunted by the coward he who trembles at the idea of death and a future state when alone, proclaims himself an atheist or a free-thinker in public the water-drinker, who suffers the penitence of a week for a supernumerary glass, recounts the wonders of his intemperance and he who does not mount the gentlest animal without trepidation, plumes himself on breaking down horses, and his perils in the chace.
When Zarathustra's animals, however, heard these words, they ran away in terror. "Likewise perishing of thirst," continued the soothsayer. "And although I hear water splashing here like words of wisdom that is to say, plenteously and unweariedly, I want WINE! Not every one is a born water-drinker like Zarathustra.
It was large and carelessly furnished; there were no servants other than his three assistants, and his dietary and private life were characterised by a philosophical simplicity. He was a water-drinker, a vegetarian, and all those logical disciplinary things. But the sight of his equipment settled many doubts.
After the food has had time to digest and pass out of the stomach, then, if one is a great water-drinker, take a glass, or so much of a glass as you think is required, and it will be of benefit. Make the heartiest meal come at noon, and eat a light supper at night, using bread and butter for the most part.
Such a man may not miss the pleasure of popularity; for men seldom miss a pleasure which they have long denied themselves. An old tyrant does without popularity just as an old water-drinker does without wine.
Captain Scott, himself a water-drinker, had arranged that no intoxicating beverages, in any form, should appear in the saloon. The steward was strictly forbidden to supply them to any person except Mr. Chantrey himself.
The title, "Our Water-drinker" bandied about the printing house, came to be really an appellation of esteem. The printing press, on which Benjamin worked at Watts' printing house, is now in the Patent Office at Washington, where many visitors go to see it.
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