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"; when we reached the lot John and Luster and Gabe ( the three mules and the horse too ) were still watching the still-swinging side gate through which Boon had just vanished, carrying the pistol in his hand. John and Father looked at eachother for about ten seconds while the whole edifice of entendre-de-noblesse collapsed into dust. Though the noblesse, the oblige, still remained."
Coming close now to the end of 1004 pages Faulkner and this fragment shows some similarity to the nouned "comme il faut" .
Faulkner is a writer I have to keep a dictionary standby for. Not for the dialect parts, which are fine, but for many maybe a bit out of use words; old but new to me. From the parts I read online I saw I will have to do that also for O'Neill. For new new to me words.
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