Leigh Fermor’s prose sometimes tends toward purple. But he can also fashion sentences with sharp, understated wit. Here’s one from A Time of Gifts, about the Barons Schey v. Koromla:
They had once been very rich, but, like everyone else, they were less so now.[If the prose is sometimes purple, at least it’s a good purple.]
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