Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children
Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children
By Julian Hawthorne
28 Jun, 2020
Brief Extract: AN APPANAGE OF ROYALTY. A good many years ago—before Julius Cæsar landed at Dover, in fact, and while the architect's plans for Stonehenge were still under consideration—England was inhabited by a civilised and prosperous people,
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Brief Extract: AN APPANAGE OF ROYALTY. A good many years ago—before Julius Cæsar landed at Dover, in fact, and while the architect's plans for Stonehenge were still under consideration—England was inhabited by a civilised and prosperous people, who did not care about travelling, and who were renowned for their affability to strangers. The climate was warm and equable; there were no fogs, no smoke, no railways, and no politics. The Government was an absolute monarchy; one king, who was by birth and descent an Englishman, lived in London all the year-round; and as for London, it was the cleanest, airiest, and most beautiful city in the whole world. Less