let it leave me like a long breath

"The English, in repeating to their children, the fairy tale of Cinderella, persist in calling her slipper one of glass (verre), which no lady could dance in, instead of the slipper of vaire (miniver or white fur), which would offer no impediment to the little fairy feet of any sylph of the ball-room."

huh well then that explains a lot

e: huh apparently that too is a metamyth caused by scholars assuming too much about the IGNORANCE OF THE COMMON FOLK