Cadaverous Mr.Minorkey, the broad-shouldered, sad-looking man with side-whiskers, who complained incessantly of a complication of disorders, which included dyspepsia, consumption, liver-disease, organic disease of the heart, rheumatism, neuralgia, and entire nervous prostration, and who was never entirely happy except in telling over the oft-repeated catalogue of his disgusting symptoms--Mr.Minorkey, as he sat by his daughter, inveighed, in an earnest crab-apple voice, against Grahamism.

He would have been in his grave twenty years ago if it hadn't been for good meat.

And then he recited in detail the many desperate attacks from which he had been saved by beefsteak.

But this pork he felt sure would make him sick.

It might kill him.