It's an Ill Wind (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from It's an Ill Wind The first event of any importance in Rose's life, not counting a visit to the Zoo and one to Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, was her father's death, which occurred on a Sunday, in November, just before her thirteenth birthday. The circumstances were dramatic, for Mr. Harford was actually engaged in delivering his evening sermon when he suddenly collapsed in the pulpit, and died almost immediately, of heart failure. Rose never forgot seeing him crumple up, nor the curious thud he made as he fell. All that happened on that memorable evening impressed itself on her memory. She could recall for years afterwards that scene of hubbub and commotion in the church, the appearance of the ambulance in which her father's body was wheeled back to the Vicarage, and the feeling of excitement and horror induced in her by the unusual darkness of the house, the whisperings of the servants, and the lamentations of her mother. All of it formed her first introduction to "things happening." 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.