Excerpt from The House of Windows In the bustling Stores of Angers and Son, the ribbon counter, so lately the storm centre of a throng of struggling shoppers, was slowly resuming its normal aspect. The shimmering piles of ribbons, which had collapsed under the onslaught of frenzied women, were being deftly rebuilt by the weary clerks. Order was emerging out of chaos, and something like neatness reigned once more in the glass cases and on the open shelves. In a word, the Bargain Sale was over, for the day. It had not been an ordinary one-day-a-week Bargain Sale - far from it. The clerks, standing knee-deep in paper from the unwound bolts of ribbon, were proof enough of its exceptional nature. Great Semi-annual SaleSacrifice Of All Ribbons Without ReserveEverything Slaughtered!9 To 5 Daily. This had been the announcement on the handbills, and apparently the demand for slaughtered ribbons had been bloodthirsty, for now the clerks were straightening up, knee-deep, so to speak, in corpses of the slain. "My! But I'm tired! 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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