But he was interested in what the clergyman was saying, and wished to hear what further he might adduce in favor of the health influence of pure wine.
"I have always used wine, and a little good brandy too, and am as free from any inordinate appetite as your most confirmed abstainer; but then I take especial care to have my liquor pure." "A thing not easily done," said the clergyman, replying to their host.
"Not easy for every one, but yet possible.

I have never found much difficulty." "There will be less difficulty, I presume," returned Mr.Elliott, "when this country becomes, as it soon will, a large wine producing region.
When cheap wines take the place of whisky, we will have a return to temperate habits among the lower classes, and not, I am satisfied, before.

There is, and always has been, a craving in the human system for some kind of stimulus.

After prolonged effort there is exhaustion and nervous languor that cannot always wait upon the restorative work of nutrition; indeed, the nutritive organs themselves often need stimulation before they can act with due vigor.

Isn't that so, Dr.
Hillhouse ?" And the clergyman addressed a handsome old man with hair almost as white as snow who stood listening to the conversation.