These seats are situated on each side of the building, at the rear, and in the gallery; and they will be dying of inanition by and bye if somebody doesn't come to the rescue.

It was true that since the great singer had closed her long career and had retired to live in the country, in Provence, she dressed with such simplicity as made it possible for her to exist without the long-faithful, all-skilful, and iron-handed Alphonsine; and the maid, on her side, was so thoroughly a professional theatrical dresser that she must have died of inanition in what she would have called private life.

Dex evidently heard him, for he twitched back one ear, but maintained his attitude of keen interest in an invisible somethinga something that had drawn him from drowsy inanition to a quietly tense statue of alertness.