text:  The eagerness of appetite that one can fairly see in the watery and sensual eyes of men to whom _eating_ has become the aim and joy of their existence--the absorption of every faculty in the gluttonous pursuit--the animal indulgence and delight--these are sickening; then the deliberate and cold-blooded torture of the creatures whose marrowy bones are _crunched_ by the epicure without a thought of the suffering that preceded his intensely pleasurable emotions and the bare mention of which in this narrative is almost more than sufficient then worst of all the wilful prodigality and waste--the wickedness of casting to the dogs the healthy food for which whole families widows and beggared orphans are pining in the neighbouring street--the guilty indifference of him who finds the wealth for the profusion and the impudent recklessness of the underling who abuses it