Broken Away (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Broken Away

Kate! Called the master of the house once more, shouting boldly over the banisters this time, as one unashamed and free. Tell your mistress to come up to the smoking-room at once; I want her. And tell her to bring me up a cup of tea, a decent cup, and some of the company cake not the other, mind!

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Excerpt from Broken Away

"Are those women gone yet?"

It was the voice of the master of the house. The deep well of the staircase, over which he leaned, carried his words in a sepulchral whisper down to the hall below. Another whisper, thinner in tone, came up from the spot, three stories beneath, where a white cap and apron gleamed through the dusk. There was broad daylight everywhere outside, but the hall was always in semi-darkness.

"No, sir. Just going, sir" - hastily, as a door opened on an intervening landing.

A smell of tea and hot cakes floated up to Stuart Rivington's nose as he cautiously projected it over the banisters; a gush of chatter and laughter, and a rustle of skirts, swept aloft on the draught caused by the open door.

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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.