"Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard". Dickens refers to these habits as "Bacchanalian propensities". Here we meet Mr Stryver, the lawyer with a "florid countenance" whose face is likened to a flower seeking the sun.
Vocabulary:
carousing - drinking plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way
glib - fluent and voluble but insincere and voluble
repast - meal, banquet, feast e.g. a "compact repast"
Vocabulary:
carousing - drinking plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way
glib - fluent and voluble but insincere and voluble
repast - meal, banquet, feast e.g. a "compact repast"
