One Standard of Class

I seemed to be looking at that statue of Olympian Zeus which Phidias is said to have cast in solid gold. Such was the power that a Jesuit education had over M. de Guermantes, over the body of M. de Guermantes at least, for it did not reign with equal master over the ducal mind. M. de Guermantes laughed at his own jokes, but did not even smile at other people's.

- The Guermantes Way (385)