The Queen's Body-Guard

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Excerpt from The Queen's Body-Guard: A Story of American Life for Girls "Gray distance hid each shining sail By ruthless breezes borne from roe, And lessening, lading, faint, and pale. My ships went forth to sea." - George Arnold. Any one happening into Mrs. Stanley's cosy back parlor, on a certain February afternoon, nearly a dozen years ago, would have doubted, at first, whether he had interrupted a council of war, or a treaty of peace. Mrs. Stanley's gentle, tranquil face, with its almost deprecating expression, offered testimony to the latter theory, but the flushed checks and slightly-raised voices of the rest of the family were rather suggestive of imminent war. Two tall girls with brown hair and frank blue eyes Bat hand in hand on the sofa, their bewildering likeness to each other proclaimed them twins, but a close scrutiny revealed a very decided difference of expression. They had just passed their fifteenth birthday, and were in all the dignity of their first long gowns. On a low ottoman by the mother's chair sat Elizabeth, the oldest daughter of the house, she was three years older than the twins, paler and graver-looking, but with a tranquil, determined face, which gave one tho feeling that she might be safely depended upon. Nestling in her lap was Mary, known only in the family by her nickname, May, a delicate-looking child, seven or eight years old. 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.