Excerpt from Days Like These: A Novel Broadway below the City Hall was beginning to show the increased life imparted by the thousands of deskmen who issue forth from the neighboring offices at four o'clock. But on this hot July attera there was little animation added to the baked street, most of those who now rapidly increased the numbers of its throng seeming to be already cooked to a condition where an additional baking had no efiect upon them; certainly not in the way of lessening the degree of lifelessness to which their hours in the little sub-ovens of oflices had reduced them. 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.