"The victim begins to shrink spiritually; he develops a fancy for
parlours with a regulated atmosphere, and takes his morality on the
principle of tin shoes and tepid milk. The care of one important
body or soul becomes so engrossing that all the noises of the outer
world begin to come thin and faint into the parlour with the
regulated temperature; and the tin shoes go equally forward over
blood and ruin" (_New Arabian Nights_).