Excerpt from Lords and Ladies, Vol. 1 of 3 As all tidy, home-loving, home-glorifying queens of households are allowed to feel at one of those advents of domestic bliss - a thorough house-clean ing - so did she revel and rejoice in the dainty spruceness of her kingdom. They had seen her (and applauded her) only that day, as she chal lenged the world to find spot or blemish, an atom of dust or the minutest spider, in the domestic palace to which she welcomed them so warmly. They had watched her, had admired her, glowing with gratified pride, as she walked through her beautiful and fragrant house. She may (we will not, deny it), she certainly may, under the influence of this most pardonable of all vanities, have demanded their forbearance rather than beseeched it. 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.