Excerpt from Her Majesty: A Romance of to-Day Tween them. It was part of his policy to ignore past defeats. Now one of Queen Honoria's most objectionable characteristics, in the eyes of her Prime Minister, was an inability, or an unwillingness, to carry out her part of these little pretences; accordingly, She Silenced him with a Please do not bring that up again, Baron Hausman. I tell you finally that I will not ap pear in public. I Should feel altogether too flat, trailing around the streets with four horses, as if I were the leading lady in a circus, with claquers throwing up their hats and Shouting 'god Save the Queen ' in front, while the real people, my people, are scowling silently in the background, or turning their heads so as not to see me. I tried it once, and I will never do it again. I know the people are discontented, and I am not sure but that they have a right to be. Then she had ended by an impulsive little appeal out of the depths of her heart, not that She thought it would do any good, but be cause she could not help it: Why need we be SO at cross-purposes, my subjects and I? What is good for the one is surely good for the other. Why can we not have an investigation, ask them for a specific list of their grievances. 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.