Angels & Ministers: Four Plays of Victorian Shade & Character (Classic Reprint)

The Queen: God Bless Her! A Scene from Home-Life in the Highlands The august Lady is sitting in a garden-tent on the lawn 0/ Balmoral Castle. Her parasol leans besi. de her. lVriting-materials are on the table be/ore Iter, and a small lan, jor it is hot weather; also a dish oj peaches. Sunlight suffuses the tent interior, softening the round contours oj the face, and caressing pleasantly the small plU111,P hand busy at letter-writing. The even flow oj her pel1'ntanship is suddenly disturbed; picking up her parasol, she indulgently beats some unseen object, lying concealed against her sk;rts. QUEEN. Ko: don't scratch! Naughty! Naughty! (Site then picks up a hand-bell, rings it, and continues Irer writing. Presently a fine figure of a 11tan in Highland costume appears in the tent-door. lIe waits awhile, t!zen speaks in the strong Doric of his native wilds.)

Table of Contents

1 THE QUEEN: GOD BLESS HER! • 11; (A Scene from Home-Life in the Highlands); II HIS FAVOURITE FLOWER 45; (A Political Myth Explained); III THE COYFORTER 6I; (A Political Finale); IV POSSESSION 9I; (A Peep-Show in Paradise)

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