Let the Roof Fall In (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Let the Roof Fall In The weather was cold, the sky overcast, there had been several short, sharp showers of rain, and the prospect of a pleasant day´s racing was not even problematic. The stand at Sandown would be half empty, and the difficulty of spotting winners, always great enough in the jumping season, would be doubled by the heaviness of the going. Lady Carrie Carthew had been talking about the weather since nine o´clock, when her maid had called her. It was still the subject of her conversation when, at eleven, she walked to the window and decided it would be quite absurd to venture out. She had had her morning appetizer of rum and milk, followed by a cigarette, she had read her letters, torn up her bills, and yawned over her papers. Four or five dresses had been taken out of the wardrobe, and replaced, discarded definitely for the occasion. She had intended all along to wear the new brown cloth with her sables, and the wallflower toque. But what was the good of dressing-up on a day like this? From the window in Charles Street she had a side glimpse into Berkeley Square, and in Berkeley Square it was miserable enough, the moist air clung like gray fog to the leafless trees, and dripped from brown boughs on to the sodden grass. It would be worse still in the country, slopping across the Park through the grass to the ill-protected stand, spending the rest of the day with shoes and stockings damp and feet cold, shivering while the horses paraded, watching them through obscured field-glasses as they jumped, or fell short, the colors indistinguishable, and the result in doubt until the numbers went up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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