I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

gross national consumption

‘She slammed the door so hard I figured a window'd break […] .’ ‘I swan,’ I said.

From the oracle the sound did come—or at any rate the sense did, a sense all accordant with the insufflation she had just seen working.