Excerpt from Her Majesty's Minister His Excellency unlocked it with his own key, took up his quill, and after searching here and there through the pages, commenced writing a bewildering row of letters and numerals inter mingled, while in the meantime I had gone to the telephone instrument at the opposite end of the room and rung up London, until there came an answering voice from one of the night staff of the Foreign Office. 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.

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Excerpt from Her Majesty: A Romance of to-Day Tween them. It was part of his policy to ignore past defeats. Now one of Queen Honoria's most objectionable characteristics, in the eyes of her Prime Minister, was an inability, or an unwillingness, to carry out her part of these little pretences; accordingly, She Silenced him with a Please do not bring that up again, Baron Hausman. I tell you finally that I will not ap pear in public. I Should feel altogether too flat, trailing around the streets with four horses, as if I were the leading lady in a circus, with claquers throwing up their hats and Shouting 'god Save the Queen!' in front, while the real people, my people, are scowling silently in the background, or turning their heads so as not to see me. I tried it once, and I will never do it again. I know the people are discontented, and I am not sure but that they have a right to be. Then she had ended by an impulsive little appeal out of the depths of her heart, not that She thought it would do any good, but be cause she could not help it: Why need we be SO at cross-purposes, my subjects and I? What is good for the one is surely good for the other. Why can we not have an investigation, ask them for a specific list of their grievances. 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.

Gerald Ingram is a spy for the British Government working in the British Embassy in France. Together with the British Ambassador, Lord Barmouth they await eagerly for a message from the British Foreign secretary. The news they receive is terrible, for their secret plot to secure a crucial interest from French interference has been discovered. Now Ingram must race to discover the source of the leak or war may break out. And how exactly is his former lover Yolande involved with this matter?

Excerpt from The Life of Sir Harry Parkes, K. C. B., G. C. M. G, Vol. 1 of 2: Sometime Her Majesty's Minister to China Japan With Sir Harry's return to China as British Minister at Peking in 1883 my own share of the biography recommences, and here for the first time I have suffered from dearth of materials. The period of his tenure of the Legation was, however, unhappily so short that very little political work of the first importance could have been carried through before his premature death; and the general character of the unremitting toil which hastened his end is perhaps sufficiently indicated in the corre spondence which I have been enabled to quote. From what I have heard on high official authority I doubt whether the publication of his despatches of this anxious period - the time of the Tongking z'mbroglz'o - would add much of permanent interest to the biography, whilst it might very probably revive national animosities which had far better be soothed to sleep. 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.

Excerpt from The Prime Minister, Vol. 2 of 3: An Historical Romance In England, a tailor is looked upon, not only as inferior to other men, but actually to be of no more consideration than the ninth part of a man now, in Portugal, the same unjust sort of prejudice exists against shoemakers; couse quently, cobblers are considered utterly below all notice. 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.

Excerpt from The Secret History of the White Staff, Vol. 2: Being an Account of Affairs Under the Conduct of Some Late Ministers, and of What Might Probably Have Happen'd if Her Majesty Had Not Died Houfe, ' and letting their Country heatfl their Names in an Account lo partica larly agreeable to the Queen; but he did not notice to them, how it would make them hated among their Friends; r and make the Pretender' believe. They had betray'd him. 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.

Excerpt from The Secret History of the White Staff: Being an Account of Affairs Under the Conduct of Some Late Ministers, and of What Might Probably Have Happened if Her Majesty Had Not Died The White Stafir being laid down, was, for the prefent, determined into five White States, of whom the Perlon for whom Fate had defigned it, was not made the Chief at firft, but had the Affair of the Exchequer lo put into his Hands, that in Effect, he might tranlae't Things with more lnfpeetion. 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."