The Queen's Shilling A Soldier's Story Author:Arthur Griffiths General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: H.S. King Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and ther... more »e may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. KING'S LILIES. " /was a child and she was a child In this kingdom by the sea ; But we loved with a love that was more than love -- I and my Annabel Lee -- With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me." Edgar Allan Poe. On the Saturday that he was invited, Alured hired a dog-cart, and drove himself over to King's Lilies. It was not a very large place, and had been settled upon Lady Moynehan when she married as a dower-house. Not far from the road, and with no big park surrounding it, but lying among the trees like a nest; tall bushes of laurestina and rhododendron hid the highway, and broke the sound of wheels rattling back and forward to the chief town of Bankshire. The house might be said to have two fronts, one to which the avenue led, and in which was the hall door, and the other overlookingthe lawn, and the pleasant meadow that carried the view on to the trees above the- river. Along this side were all the reception rooms, leading one into the other, and every window of them opened on to the lawn. In summer time Lady Moynehan and her company overflowed, as it were, and floated from the pretty rooms out upon the smooth soft grass, where they grouped themselves about picturesquely on garden chairs, low seated, or on rugs spread over the rich green velvet carpet. You might have thought that Millicent and her friends in their gay colours were gorgeous exotics, transplanted from far o...« less