English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

A vision of comfort and gladness, that tropical March morning, genial as a July dawn in my own less ardent clime; but the memory of two round, tender arms, and two little dimpled hands, that so lately had made themselves loving fetters round my neck, in the vain hope of holding mamma fast, blinded my outlook; and as, with a nervous tremor and a rude jerk, we came to anchor there, so with a shock and a tremor I came to my hard realities.Leonowens, Anna Harriette is the author of 'English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok', published 2006 under ISBN 9781426431654 and ISBN 1426431651.