Excerpt from The Copper Queen, Vol. 2: A Romance of to-Day and YesterdayEnilda soon found herself a queen in a small sovereignty. Her father had so well prepared the way for her reception, that Gotham's best opened its doors wide to the young stranger. Besides her reputed great wealth, she possessed beauty Of so perfect a type, that in a land Of pretty women it was still only the more remarkable. Her manners were a strange mixture Of western frankness and acquired New York graciousness. There was a sweetness in her disposition, a simplicity in her deportment, which won all hearts. Heaven having given her beauty, the world accorded her wit, in reality her intelligence was such, that after a versation with her one forgot her appearance. There'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.