'Not in drink ?' Miss Graves inquired.

'No,' he said boldly; 'not equally; meats are more insidious.

I say nothing of taking life--of fattening for that express purpose: diseases of animals: bad blood made: cruelty superinduced: it will be seen to be, it will be looked back on, as a form of, a second stage of, cannibalism.

Let that pass.

I say, that for excess in drinking, the penalty is paid instantly, or at least on the morrow.' 'Paid by the drunkard's wife, you should say.' 'Whereas intemperance in eating, corrupts constitutionally, more spiritually vitiates, we think: on the whole, gluttony is the least-generous of the vices.' Colney lured Mr.Pempton through a quagmire of the vices to declare, that it brutalized; and stammeringly to adopt the suggestion, that our breeding of English ladies--those lights of the civilized world--can hardly go with a feeding upon flesh of beasts.