Download or read book Recollections of a Royal Governess written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Royal Governess: With 50 Illustrations, Including a Photogravure Frontispiece and Facsimiles Meanwhile the gold-laced officials mouthed terrible sounding words, waved their hands wildly, and shrugged their shoulders resignedly. I was not doing what they asked, but I was mad, mad English, so they must put up with it! This was written on their faces. And then I was put into the train which had pufied into the station, and sent luggageless upon my way. It was humiliating to be moved about like this, whether one would or no, but such was my first experience in Poland. We had not proceeded far. 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.