To be fair, that kind of verbosity is an obvious belt onion: it was the style at the time. That said, after struggling through it a couple of times, taking tim

To be fair, that kind of verbosity is an obvious belt onion: it was the style at the time. That said, after struggling through it a couple of times, taking time to reread portions, it really painted a vivid picture, casting a Gothic pall over the scene in ways a more to-the-point passage might not.