Anderby Wold

By WINIFRED HOLTBY
LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD
First published 1923 Reprinted 1938 Reprinted 1939 Reprinted 1948
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TO DAVID AND ALICE HOLTBY IS DEDICATED THIS IMAGINARY STORY OF IMAGINARY EVENTS ON AN IMAGINARY FARM
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.
FULL SUZERAINTY
When Sarah Bannister's dog-cart bowled along the High Street of Market Burton, its progress was observed by several pairs of eyes, peeping discreetly from behind lace-veiled windows.
Look, Lizzie, Sarah Bannister's got a new bonnet.
My word, she'll be late if they don't hurry.