The Way of all Flesh by Samuel Butler

Pryer had done well to warn Ernest against promiscuous house to house visitation. He had not gone outside Mrs. Jupp's street door, and yet what had been the result?

Mr. Holt had put him in bodily fear; Mr. and Mrs. Baxter had nearly made a Methodist of him; Mr. Shaw had undermined his faith in the Resurrection; Miss Snow's charms had ruined -- or would have done so but for an accident -- his moral character. As for Miss Maitland, he had done his best to ruin hers, and had damaged himself gravely and irretrievably in consequence. The only lodger who had done him no harm was the bellows' mender, whom he had not visited.