Excerpt from A Lily of France Last of all came two children, little girls of ten or eleven years, dressed alike in gowns of coarse white cloth fastened plainly about the throat and falling to the feet, confined at the waist by a girdle. Each wore on her head a white linen coif, from which hung a square of white muslin, forming a short and scanty veil. 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.