...Nothing about him encouraged any hope that he had received his come-upance; on the contrary, the yearners for that stroke of justice must yearn even more itchingly:...mother and the Major, embowered in the big red and gold drawing-room downstairs, to "receive" the guests; and, standing thus together, the trio offered a picturesque...

...politeness was of a kind which democratic people found hard to bear. In a word, M. le Due had returnea from the gay life of the capital to show himself for...mother and the Major, embowered in the big red and gold drawing-room downstairs, to "receive" the guests; and, standing thus together, the trio offered a picturesque...

...received his comeuppance. Cards were out for a ball in his honour, and this pageant of the tenantry was the last of the great long-remembered dances that everybody talked about. Since nothing so far has indicated any loss of magnificence a new mood is set by the word 'last' and...

...images with gentle tristesse and equally delicate irony, tells us that "this pageant of the tenantry was the last of the great, long-remembered dances that 'everybody talked about.'" Welles considered that sequence "the greatest tour de force of my career," with astonishing tracking...