Chapter I: Front Matter

ANDERBY WOLD

By WINIFRED HOLTBY

LONDON
JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD

First published 1923
Reprinted 1938
Reprinted 1939
Reprinted 1948

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LOWE AND BRYDONE PRINTERS LTD., London, N.W.10
for JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, LTD.
8 Bury Place, London, W.C.1

TO
DAVID AND ALICE HOLTBY
IS DEDICATED
THIS IMAGINARY STORY OF
IMAGINARY EVENTS ON AN
IMAGINARY FARM

CONTENTS

I. FULL SUZERAINTY

II. THE TOAST

III. THE KINGDOM

IV. THE QUEEN

V. THE TREES OF THE VALLEY

VI. THE PERFECT GUEST

VII. THE SALVATION OF SOCIETY

VIII. THE STRANGER AT THE CROSS-ROADS

IX. THE ENEMIES OF SOCIETY

X. THE PROPHET AND THE MOON

XI. A DEFINITION OF FELICITY

XII. THE FRUITFUL GROUND

XIII. THE SHADOW ON THE KINGDOM

XIV. THE SHADOW ON THE WHEAT

XV. BEFORE THE HARVEST

XVI. HARVEST AT ANDERBY

XVII. LADIES AT MARKET BURTON

XVIII. GENTLEMEN AT ANDERBY

XIX. THE ROAD TO ANDERBY

XX. ABDICATION

ANDERBY WOLD

"_Felicity is a continual progresse of the desire from one object
to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to
the later ... so that, in the first place, I put for a generall
inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of
power after power which ceaseth only after death ... and there
shall be no contentment but proceeding._"

HOBBES LEVIATHAN, I, ii.