Richard A. Hocks
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There are many instances of fine description. In the opening scene, Kate goes to visit her father, Lionel. Waiting for him—he was out—she registers the room. The upholstery of glazed cloth on the armchair gave “the sense of the slippery and of the sticky.” One’s reaction is that we’ve been given a description of his character.
When Milly and her traveling companion, Mrs. Stringham arrive in London, and are at a table with twenty other guests at the home of Kate’s aunt, Mrs. Lowder, the prose picks up, matching the glitter of the occasion. A couple of sentences I like very much: “It almost appeared to Milly that their fortune had been unduly precipitated—as if properly they were in the position of having ventured on a small joke and found the answer out of proportion grave” (p. 98 of Norton edition). I like the use of “precipitated.” Shortly before, Milly had been sitting on a rock at a precipitous point in the Alps when she resolved to cut short the continental tour and proceed immediately to London. And then there is this: “Mrs. Lowder’s other neighbor was the Bishop of Murram—a real bishop, such as Milly had never seen, with a complicated costume, a voice like an old-fashioned wind instrument, and a face all the portrait of a prelate. . . .” (p. 99). Well, the last clause was admittedly a disappointment after hitting so well with the wind instrument, but two out of three ain’t bad.
Not a book for everyone, which is why I only give it four stars, but I enjoyed it very much and feel it repaid the time and attention I devoted to it.… (mer)