The first words repeated and contrasted are press and stage.
The sentence containing these words is balanced nicely. In the
following sentence we have four short sentences united into one, and the
first clause contrasts with the second and the third with the fourth.
The sentence beginning "The ostentatious simplicity of their
dress" gives us a whole series of subjects, all resting on a
single short predicate---"were fair game for the laughers."
The next sentence catches up the, word "laughers" and plays upon it.
In the second paragraph we have as subject "those" followed by a whole
series of relative clauses beginning with "who," and this series again
rests on a very short predicate---"were no vulgar fanatics."
And so on through the entire description, we find series after series,
contrast after contrast; now it is a dozen words all in the same
construction, now a number of sentences all beginning in the same way
and ending in the same way.
The first paragraph takes up the subject of the contrast of those who
laughed and those who were laughed at. The second paragraph
enlarges upon good points in the objects of the examination.
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