But there was neither harmony nor melody in their tones, for they belonged to the different stages and shows ; and if the musicians agreed in any thing, it seemed only in the efforts which they made to outscrape, outscreech, outblow and outdrum each other.

Kessler […] said that he decided to run for alderman because he felt that Triplett underrepresented the ward.

(Another example of apocryphal information getting passed along dilettantely until it becomes the truth.)

On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […]was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.