The Day Of Days: An Extravaganza

...His occupation had fitted his head and shoulders with a deceptive but none the less perennial stoop. His means had endowed him with a single outworn suit of ready-made clothing which, shrinking sensitively on each successive application of the tailor's sizzling goose, had come to disclose his person with disconcerting candour-sleeves too short, trousers at once too short and too narrow, waistcoat buttons straining over his chest, coat buttons refusing to recognise a buttonhole save that at the waist. Circumstances these that added measurably to his apparent age, lending him the semblance of maturity attained while still in the shell of youth...

• | Author: Louis Joseph Vance
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 194 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 154050073X
• | ISBN-13: 9781540500731