Class 1. consists of nervous diseases, such as depend on the nervous and muscular systems; the second, of sanguine diseases, such as depend on the sanguiferous system; the third, of secretory diseases, or such as are connected with the state of the secretions; and the fourth, of structural diseases, or those that are connected with the nutritive powers.

Lady Merlumina?! You were well met. She is an ancestor of mine.

The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!

Encourage the 'splatter-gun' effect: The aim here is literally to 'splatter' thoughts onto the page, in a similar way to the stream of consciousness (see Chapter 7).