for though kuranes was a monarch in the land of dream , with all imagined pomps and marvels , splendours and beauties , ecstasies and delights , novelties and excitements at her command , she would gladly have resigned forever the whole of her power and luxury and freedom for one blessed day as a simple girl in that pure and quiet england , that ancient , beloved england which had moulded her being and of which she must always be immutably a part .