Furthermore when the bacteria become pathogenic, the nasopharynx is the port-of-entry of the infection.

acting with no especial goal

[…] the company of a group of young athletes: and this athletic principle included even the sprinkling of oddities (one of them a lame young hunchback with features of aquiline delicacy, who was cherished for a memoryful of sporting statistics) […]

A person who's on good terms with their exes is probably a better human being and a better potential boyfriend/girlfriend/enbyfriend than someone who hates all their exes.