Excerpt from A Brief Memoir of Mary K. Eagle: With Tributes From Her Friends She took great pride and pleasure in her home. The stranger had only to enter its portals to know that he was in a home where reigned an American queen. Those who frequented that home and noted the taste and order there displayed, found their love and admiration for her continually on the increase. How delightful was that lovely place to me, where the queen of my heart reigned in undisputed sway; but now its charms are vanished, and her portrait, before which I often stand and admire and weep and rejoice, the tastefully decorated walls, the pictures arranged under her direction, the books she loved. All serve but to remind me of the one I loved and'lost. 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.