Excerpt from The Rebel Queen In the daytime the street is left entirely empty, except for the costers. For obvious reasons there is little social intercourse among housewives in the morning at twelve o'clock the children bring back life to the streets by coming home for dinner towards four in the afternoon there begins movement, windows are thrown up, doors are Opened, ladies who have got on their things come out and converse with each other. This evening, about seven, a young lady, dressed daintily, if not richly, was set down at the end of the street by the tram. She knew her way and tripped along the pavement quickly, without looking about her. 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.