Excerpt from The Heir Presumptive, Vol. 2 of 2: A Love Story And she is resolved that Gladys shall not be ashamed of her old home. So the balconies and windows teem with scented blossoms and glossy leaves, and the house has been fitted with new aesthetic blinds, and the lace curtains are from the most expensive foreign looms. The guest cham bers have been refurnished also and made fit for the reception of so great a personage, and the ser vants have been ordered to assume their new liveries. It is amusing sometimes to watch the sudden dignity gained in the family circle by an accession of rank or riches. Gladys, who but two short years ago was in the schoolroom, and scolded by her mother if she wore her best dresses upon ordinary occasions, who slept in one of the smallest apart ments of the house, and was highly delighted when her father sent her a couple of sovereigns for a birthday present, nothing is too good now for Gladys, for whom at that period anything was good enough. 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.