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...Maybe they're having races today," thought Vag, as he approached the young official. "I'd like to get a boat for an hour or so may be I'd better try a wherry to start with." "I'll put you on the list," said the man with the clipboard, "but we're sort of crowded." "How long?" "Well, I don't see how we could fit you in this afternoon...
Cakes and Ale: or The Skeleton in the Clipboard is a novel without a hero. Narrator is William Ashenden, middle-aged bachelor writer, through whose disillusioned eyes you see unfolded the story of Edward Drimeld and the lovely Rosie. When Edward Drimeld died his late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason...