In Kings Houses: A Romance of the Days of Queen Anne

Excerpt from In Kings Houses: A Romance of the Days of Queen AnneNay, but tell me, granny! Think you the King will ride to-day?Dame Dorothy laughed as she drew out the shin ing flax, and then let it coil, a fine silver thread, around the spindle. Robin watched the process as he sat on the floor at her feet, and in the inter est of the moment he almost forgot the unanswered question.Yet the sight was by no means unfamiliar. It seemed to the child that Dame Dorothy was always spinning, Spinning. But presently he bethought him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.