East and West
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Excerpt from East and West: The Confessions of a Princess My earliest recollection is of a drab lodging at Shepherd´s Bush, in a small house - long since swept away - that boasted a cat-walk at the back, called by courtesy a garden, in which was one soot-beladen tree, and a tethered goat. This animal returned good for evil - as animals will - giving milk for the use of the disagreeable inmates of the still more disagreeable house. My parents were spoken of as "the ground floor," in the enigmatical language of landladies, and their child as "that brat!" I can see across the space of years the sitting-room, with its mustard-coloured linoleum, on which was laid a pocket-handkerchief of faded carpet; the suite of furniture covered with imitation American leather; the work-box in the window, covered by an antimacassar; the cracked mirror over the mantelshelf, with the clock that never went - flanked by two vases filled with bills and letters. There was also the painfully libellous portrait of the Queen in her coronation robes. Folding doors gave into the bedroom - an indescribably melancholy place, associated in my mind with violent attacks of bronchitis and other minor troubles. Even as a tiny child, "the ground floor" made me want to run away and cry. 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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