The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait.

a graphite-moderated reactor

Please pass that over to me.

To the charlatans who so desperately strive to perpetuate these pious frauds, such a threatened warm welcome is an essential feature of their gloomy ponerology — hence the puerile solemnity with which it continues to be invoked against all who temerously thumb the nose at their bogus thaumaturgy.