Excerpt from The King's Achievement The cobbled courtyard in the centre Of the house, where the tall leaded pump stood, was full Of movement. Half a dozen trunks lay there, that had just been carried in from the luggage horses that were now being led away with patient hanging heads towards the stables that stood outside the gatehouse on the right, and three or four dusty men in livery were talking to the house servants who had come out Of their quarters on the left. From the kitchen corner came a clamour Of tongues and dishes, and smoke was rising steadily from the huge outside chimney that rose beyond the roofs. 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.