It involves not only external privations, toil, and disgrace, but that unutterable hopelessness which we feel when looking upon the moral debasement of one we have respected, esteemed, and loved." "I am sure, aunt, that I will not attempt to gainsay all that.

If there is any condition in life that seems to me most deplorable and heart-breaking, it is the condition of a drunkard's wife.

But, so far as Edward Lee is concerned, I am sure there does not exist the remotest danger." "There is always danger where there is indulgence.

The man who will drink one glass a day now, will be very apt to drink two glasses in a twelvemonth; and so go on increasing, until his power over himself is gone.

Many, very many, do not become drunkards until they are old men; but, sooner or later, in nine cases out of ten, a man who allows himself to drink habitually, I care not how moderately at first, will lose his self-control." "Still, aunt, I cannot for a moment bring myself to apprehend danger in the case of Edward." "So have hundreds said before you.