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Infection was so normal that some doctors believed “laudable pus” helped remove “ill humours”.

He showed no ill humour, however, towards his brother, for having pressed him to undertake a useless enterprise, when, undoubtedly, he would have preferred being by the side of Marie de Clairvaut.

There," said he, "old Father, take this other gift from me, to get thee a pint of wine for evening-cup: thy talk has scared away my ill humour.

The amount of brandy he had drunk had increased his ill humour.

Having put him in ill humour with this retort, she fled away rejoicing.