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SIR JOHN DERING

[ii]

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  • The Broad Highway
  • The Amateur Gentleman
  • The Money Moon
  • The Hon. Mr. Tawnish
  • The Chronicles of the Imp
  • Beltane the Smith
  • The Definite Object
  • The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • Our Admirable Betty
  • Black Bartlemy’s Treasure
  • Martin Conisby’s Vengeance
  • Peregrine’s Progress

Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.

[iii]

SIR JOHN DERING

A ROMANTIC COMEDY

BY
JEFFERY FARNOL
AUTHOR OF “THE BROAD HIGHWAY” ETC.

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO. LTD.

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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY PURNELL AND SONS
PAULTON, SOMERSET, ENGLAND

[v]

TO

MY FRIEND OF YEARS
AND RIGHT TRUSTY COMRADE

HERBERT LONDON POPE

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK AS A SMALL TRIBUTETO HIS PATIENCE, FAITHFULNESS, AND UNFALTERINGLOYALTY: WITH THE EARNEST HOPETHAT TIME MAY BUT KNIT US EVER MORE CLOSE

JEFFERY FARNOL

Sussex

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CONTENTS

PAGE
Prologue1
CHAP.
I.Which introduces the Dog with a Bad Name6
II.Which describes a Fortuitous but Fateful Meeting20
III.Telleth of Mrs. Rose, the Guileful Innocent29
IV.Sheweth the Wicked Dering in a New Rôle34
V.The Allure of Simplicity: Moonlight and an Elopement39
VI.Of Souls, Solitude and a Dusty Road46
VII.Which introduces My Lord Sayle
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