Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out, had a heart of glass

This novel did no good, for the NewgateCalendar for the following quarter presented many extra cases of abduction, seduction, and reduction, five of forgery, and eight of Unclecide.

This home familiarity […] opens the sluices of sensibility. The stream flowing through a floodgate.

[..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.