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Berry And Co., by Dornford Yates
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Title: Berry And Co.
Author: Dornford Yates
Release Date: January 5, 2006 [EBook #17469]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Produced by Hilary Caws-Elwitt, in honor of Peter Caws
BERRY AND CO.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Published by Ward, Lock & Co.:-- BERRY AND CO. JONAH AND CO. MAIDEN STAKES. THE STOLEN MARCH. ANTHONY LYVEDEN. VALERIE FRENCH. AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH. AS OTHER MEN ARE. THE BROTHER OF DAPHNE. THE COURTS OF IDLENESS.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton:-- BLIND CORNER. PERISHABLE GOODS. BLOOD ROYAL. FIRE BELOW. ADÈLE AND CO.
BERRY AND CO.
BY
DORNFORD YATES
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON AND MELBOURNE
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY PURNELL AND SONS PAULTON (SOMERSET) AND LONDON
DEAR VALERIE,
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul. Yet I make bold to confess that there are in this book some passages which I hold dear--a seeming vanity, which must be explained.
Many times you have found me at work upon these chapters. Often you have taken ill-written pages of manuscript from