His [Denis Rearden's] question, or motion, or whatever it was, only fulfils the type of the usual percontations in Parliament. He only put into a Parliamentary shape out-of-door gossip; the club talk, or omnibus talk, or comic journal talk of the hour. And this is just what all sorts of Parliament men are doing every day.

Some began to whisper that prognostically she'd passed her prime.

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Ardent in love[…]He feather'd her a hundred times a day.