Excerpt from Queenie's Whim: A Novel After all there is a wonderful moral hidden under these quaint Old stories. Beauty and goodness always go together; the ugly sister, dropping toads instead of diamonds and roses, is only the poetical incarnation Of envy and discontent; truth and mercy and kindness to the aged always unfold themselves under the garb Of a beautiful young girl. And SO the children glean precious stones Of wisdom, odd-shaped and many-coloured, out Of the fanciful borders of fairy-land. Queenie Marriott once compared herself and her little Sister Emmie to the ugly duckling of the fable. There must be two of them, ' She said 'only it was dubious whether either of them would become swans.' 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.