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Visiting interviewers, expecting an Old Etonian wit and raconteur, maybe even a theorist of the nonintrusive, unexplaining novel, found instead a dazed, haunted figure—or, in Michael Holroyd’s recollection, a body asleep on the staircase.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

He became servile at once, and took pride in being the lackey of her unexplained and unexplaining majesty.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry