 Walpole , though he was devoted to the works of Trollope , and published a study of him , thought that there was no real comparison between the two of them : " I am far too twisted and fantastic a novelist ever to succeed in catching Trollope 's marvellous <unk> . " Priestley was less impressed by the supposed <unk> side of Walpole 's work , finding some of it formulaic . He was more taken with a darker , <unk> , side that he found in the writing : " suddenly it will transform the pleasant easy scene he is giving us into transparency behind which are bright stars and red <unk> ... No matter how <unk> and <unk> he may appear to be , the fact remains that he possesses an unusually sharp sense of evil . " 
