D. J. Taylor - Derby Day (2011)

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Boulogne out of season is not much of a place. The wind tears in off the sea and sends the masts of the fishing smacks drawn up in the harbor all a-clatter, and, blowing in against the sails hung up for repair in the chandlers' yards, makes the most melancholy sound ever known.

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The gillyflowers were blooming in the window boxes, there was a patch of bright green grass growing in the dust before the statue of the shepherd boy, and the old porter had been sufficiently animated by the joys of the season as to take his chair out into the courtyard and read his newspaper in full view of the passing traffic.

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