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Dooble Sanny 's character did not improve . He took more and more whisky , his bouts of drinking alternating as before with fits of hopeless repentance . His work was more neglected than ever , and his wife having no money to spend even upon necessaries , applied in desperation to her husband 's bottle for comfort . This comfort , to do him justice , he never grudged her ; and sometimes before midday they would both be drunk -- a condition expedited by the lack of food . When they began to recover , they would quarrel fiercely ; and at last they became a nuisance to the whole street . Little did the whisky-hating old lady know to what god she had really offered up that violin -- if the consequences of the holocaust can be admitted as indicating the power which had accepted it . But now began to appear in Robert the first signs of a practical outcome of such truth as his grandmother had taught him , operating upon the necessities of a simple and earnest nature .