Excerpt from Puppets, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance Oh, of course the shabby, greedy 'morna, ' monster of snowy white, comes rolling in first, triumphant and contemptuous, the rest a quarter, half an hour, hours behind! Well into the harbour sails the vast yacht, stooping over, her dress ballooning out, the water falling away from before her in ridges of snowy foam. She comes on and on, growing larger every second, until it is thought she will be in on the shore, when bang goes the cannon from the flagship. She has won, and she Whisks round contemptuously. The very magnificence of the demeanour of the unpopular craft extorts a cheer. 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.