Posted by Paul on December 22, 2005 at 23:27:31 from 61.210.184.35 user kobegaijin.
I also believe AR's use of the English-language is several levels
above Blyton.
Remember particularly WH at the end of CH5
"Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall"
and his description at the very start of CH6 of the newly besnowed
landscape as seen from Dorothea's window.
I don't recall Blyton being able to "produce" that kind of English!