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_Title:_ Rogue Herries
_Date of first publication:_ 1930
_Author:_ Hugh Walpole (1884-1941)
_Date first posted:_ April 2, 2014
_Date last updated:_ April 2, 2014
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—————_BOOKS BY HUGH WALPOLE_—————

_THE LONDON NOVELS_
Fortitude
The Duchess of Wrexe
The Green Mirror
The Captives
The Young Enchanted
Wintersmoon
Hans Frost
Captain Nicholas
The Joyful Delaneys
_SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE_
The Cathedral
The Old Ladies
Harmer John
The Inquisitor
_HERRIES_
The Bright Pavilions
Katherine Christian
Rogue Herries
Judith Paris
The Fortress
Vanessa

* * * * *

The Wooden Horse
Maradick at Forty
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
The Prelude to Adventure
The Dark Forest
The Secret City
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair
Above the Dark Circus
A Prayer for My Son
John Cornelius
The Sea Tower
The Blind Man’s House
The Killer and the Slain
Jeremy
Jeremy and Hamlet
Jeremy at Crale

* * * * *

_SHORT STORIES_
The Golden Scarecrow
The Silver Thorn
The Thirteen Travellers
All Souls’ Night
Head in Green Bronze
Mr. Huffam and Other Stories

* * * * *

Joseph Conrad (_A Critical Study_)
Anthony Trollope (_English Men of Letters_)
The Apple Trees (_Golden Cockerel Press_)
The Crystal Box
The English Novel (_Rede Lecture_)
Reading (_An Essay_)
The Waverley Pageant
The Cathedral (_A Play_)
Roman Fountain

* * * * *

(_With J. B. Priestley_)
Farthing Hall (_A Novel in Letters_)

ROGUE HERRIES

A NOVEL

BY
HUGH WALPOLE

LONDON
MACMILLAN & CO LTD
NEW YORK • ST MARTIN’S PRESS
1961

_This book is copyright in all countries which_
_are signatories to the Berne Convention_

_First Edition March 1930_
_Crown 8vo Edition November 1931_
_Reprinted December 1931 (twice), 1932, 1933,_
_1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1961_

MACMILLAN AND COMPANY LIMITED
_London Bombay Calcutta Madras Melbourne_

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED
_Toronto_

ST MARTIN’S PRESS INC
_New York_

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

[Illustration]

FOR
A TRUSTED FRIEND
AND
IN LOVE OF CUMBERLAND

Why are we alive if not to change body into soul?

• • • • • •

Oh, how good it was to live! I thank Thee, God,
Thou Who gavest me life!

_King David_
René Morax

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