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interrupted Canivet ; `` on the contrary , you seem to me inclined to apoplexy . Besides , that does n't astonish me , for you chemist fellows are always poking about your kitchens , which must end by spoiling your constitutions . Now just look at me . I get up every day at four o'clock ; I shave with cold water -LRB- and am never cold -RRB- . I do n't wear flannels , and I never catch cold ; my carcass is good enough ! I live now in one way , now in another , like a philosopher , taking pot-luck ; that is why I am not squeamish like you , and it is as indifferent to me to carve a Christian as the first fowl that turns up . Then , perhaps , you will say , habit !