Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to Chat of the Social World, gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

Turning now to the animacy of the possessum, this is on the face of it less promising as a predictor.

Could John, as a cabbalizing Jew, have thus confounded superior and inferior Sephiroth , and thus made a mixture revolting to the feelings of all Cabbalists ?

Her features had a delicate cast to them.