My food was furnished in my own room, prepared in the manner which I had previously directed.

Occasionally Ludloe would request my company to breakfast, when an hour was usually consumed in earnest or sprightly conversation.

At all other times he was invisible, and his apartments, being wholly separate from mine, I had no opportunity of discovering in what way his hours were employed.
He defended this mode of living as being most compatible with liberty.
He delighted to expatiate on the evils of cohabitation.

Men, subjected to the same regimen, compelled to eat and sleep and associate at certain hours, were strangers to all rational independence and liberty.

Society would never be exempt from servitude and misery, till those artificial ties which held human beings together under the same roof were dissolved.