The Prime Minister

With quick, but still with gentle and apparently unhurried steps, he walked down before the flying engine--and in a moment had been knocked into bloody atoms.

Lopez plot ends under the Inverness express — adventurer arc closed by railway violence before Matching coda — so plot scores 92.

When the party had been about a week collected at Gatherum Castle, Ferdinand Lopez had manifestly become the favourite of the Duchess for the time, and had, at her instance, promised to remain there for some further days. He had hardly spoken to the Duke since he had been in the house,--but then but few of that motley assembly did talk much with the Duke.

Duchess favour without Duke speech — Glencora cast drives Lopez into the coalition house — so cast scores 91.

Sir Orlando Drought must have felt bitterly the quiescence with which he sank into obscurity on the second bench on the opposite side of the House. One great occasion he had on which it was his privilege to explain to four or five hundred gentlemen the insuperable reasons which caused him to break away from those right honourable friends

Mid-book dilates on ministerial retirement bitterness before Tenway acceleration — so pace scores 87.

It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as of persons who were themselves somebodies in their time.

Pedigree essay as comic-serious opening — procedural prose launching Lopez ambition — so prose scores 89.

When the party had been about a week collected at Gatherum Castle, Ferdinand Lopez had manifestly become the favourite of the Duchess for the time, and had, at her instance, promised to remain there for some further days.

Gatherum as motley coalition hospitality — Palliser country-house as political machine — so world scores 91.

It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as of persons who were themselves somebodies in their time.

Ancestry anxiety before Lopez named in chapter title — social climb hooked as thesis — so hook scores 88.

At that moment there came a shriek louder than all the other shrieks, and the morning express down from Euston to Inverness was seen coming round the curve at a thousand miles an hour. Lopez turned round and looked at it, and again walked towards the edge of the platform.

Railway express as political-novel climax — sensation modernity inside coalition epic — so innov scores 93.

The ex-Prime Minister did not carry out his purpose of leaving London in the middle of the season and travelling either to Italy or Norway. He was away from London at Whitsuntide longer perhaps than he might have been if still in office, and during this period regarded himself as a man from whose hands all work had been taken,--as one who had been found unfit to carry any longer a burden serviceably

Escape cancelled; work stripped; Matching holds the ex-PM — summit closed without exile — so ending scores 91.