The atmosphere of prose, to be sure, is less favorable to Heine's habitual indulgence in romantic tropes.

Such an awful circumstance as this might well have impressed me, but habitual indulgence had almost rendered me impervious to salutary impressions.

In other words, the habitual indulgence of a certain anticipation tends to an illusory view, not only of the "when?"

"Less," said Asad, provoked out of his habitual indulgence of her licences of speech.