their dramatic ordonnance of the parts

Flanking this were the sword Napoleon had worn at Lodi, and one of his little Mameluke sabers from Egypt. The unastonishable Alma smiled her set smile at these treasures[…]

The apotheosis of her career was her appointment as chairman.

Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.