Don't cry, pore little fellar, she would say.

When the proliferation of turkeys in the theaters began to sap her energy […], and there are only so many observations to be made about how easily the young audiences are tumbling for chintzier and chintzier pictures, she searches for a new style: brisker, more shorthand.

a tiny speck of soot

, Book I (New York 2001 edition), p.148: Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […]