Well, in the first chapter, certainly. I think writers of this period were inclined to greater ornature in the beginnings of their books; I remember* Little Dorrit opened with a very poetic chapter about the disembarkation† of the passengers from a boat.
Of course, it is possible that I'm simply not noticing the unusual words past the first chapter. The plot picks up extremely quickly – were I given to superlatives (which I am), I would be inclined to say it brings the narrative ferocity of an Ian Fleming combined with the intellectual agility of a Dorothy Sayers, even while maintaining the facility of language one would expect from a contemporary of Jerome K. Jerome and near-contemporary of Charles Dickens (or even from Dorothy Sayers herself). But this isn't a review, and I haven't finished the book, so I won't. ;)
* By which I mean: "I vaguely remembered and checked online". † Webster says it (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=disembark); I would have written "disembarkment", myself.
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Of course, it is possible that I'm simply not noticing the unusual words past the first chapter. The plot picks up extremely quickly – were I given to superlatives (which I am), I would be inclined to say it brings the narrative ferocity of an Ian Fleming combined with the intellectual agility of a Dorothy Sayers, even while maintaining the facility of language one would expect from a contemporary of Jerome K. Jerome and near-contemporary of Charles Dickens (or even from Dorothy Sayers herself). But this isn't a review, and I haven't finished the book, so I won't. ;)
* By which I mean: "I vaguely remembered and checked online".
† Webster says it (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=disembark); I would have written "disembarkment", myself.