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Title: Jonah and Co.

Author: Dornford Yates

Release Date: January 9, 2009 [EBook #27079]

Language: English

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JONAH AND CO.

BY

DORNFORD YATES

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED

LONDON AND MELBOURNE

LIBRARY EDITIONS OF "JONAH AND CO."

First Published September 1922
Reprinted 2,000 October 1922
Reprinted 2,000 October 1923
Reprinted 2,000 September 1924
Reprinted 2,000 May 1925
Reprinted 3,000 February 1926
Reprinted 12,000 June 1927
Reprinted 8,000 March 1928
Reprinted 5,000 August 1929
Reprinted 10,000 August 1930
Reprinted 10,000 February 1933
Reprinted 8,000 December 1935
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Reprinted 5,000 February 1942
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BOOK
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CONFORMS TO THE
AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARD.

MADE IN ENGLAND

Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London

To

ELM TREE ROAD

_MY LADY,_

_It is hard, sitting here, to believe that, if I would call for a cab,
I could be in St. James's Street in less than ten minutes of time.
Nevertheless, it is true. I have proved it so many times. Soon I
shall prove it for the last time._

_Better men than I will sit in this study and pace the lawn in the
garden with the high walls. The lilies and laburnums and all the gay
fellowship of flowers will find a new waterman. The thrushes and
blackbirds and wood-pigeons will find a new victualler. The private
forecourt, so richly hung with creeper, will give back my footfalls no
more. Other eyes will dwell gratefully upon the sweet pretty house and
look proudly out of its leaded window-panes._

_The old order changeth, my lady. And so I am going, before I am
driven out._

_Nine years ago there was a farm upon the opposite side of the road--a
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