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KISSING THE ROD.

LONDON:
HOBSON AND SON, GREAT NORTHERN PRINTING WORKS,
PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.

KISSING THE ROD.

A Novel.

BY

EDMUND YATES,

AUTHOR OF "BROKEN TO HARNESS," "RUNNING THE GAUNTLET,"
"LAND AT LAST," ETC.

"The heart knoweth its own bitterness."

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18 CATHERINE ST. STRAND.
1866.

[All rights of translation and reproduction reserved.]

Inscribed to
THE COUNTESS OF FIFE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
CHAP.
I.	DAZZLED.
II.	A MORNING CALL.
III.	WITHIN THE PALE.
IV.	MR. GUYON'S FRIEND.
V.	HESTER GOULD.
VI.	IN CHAMBERS.
VII.	KATHARINE GUYON.
VIII.	AMARYLLIS IN A MARQUEE.
IX.	INVESTMENTS.
X.	STRUGGLE.
XI.	LEFT LAMENTING.
XII.	VICTORY.

KISSING THE ROD.

CHAPTER I.

DAZZLED

There was no name on the doorposts, nothing beyond thenumber--"48"--to serve as a guide; and yet it may be doubtedwhether any firm in the City was better known to the postman, thebankers'-clerks, and all who had regular business to transact withthem, than that of Streightley and Son. The firm had been Streightleyand Son, and it had been located at 48 Bullion Lane, for the lasthundred and fifty years. They were money-brokers and scrip-sellers atthe time of the South-Sea bubble, and were among the very few who werenot ruined by that disastrous swindle. So little ruined were they thatthey prospered by it, and in the next generation extended theirbusiness and enlarged their profits; both of whi

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