Word: pomp
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...books. Palliser brings his scenes, no matter how familiar, vividly to life. John's hunted movements through London expose him to the full expanse of the sprawling city and to all tiers of its society. He appears before the Chancery judge in Westminster Hall and marvels wryly at the pomp: "The Master was wearing a costume in which it was so impossible to believe that he had knowingly attired himself, that it seemed that it was only by a polite conspiracy among his observers that no-one drew his attention to it." At one of his nadirs, the boy searches...