Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant: A Romance of Married Life (Classic Reprint)

Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant A Romance of Married Life FOREWORD i IF you take the Central London Tube to the Bank station ;fight for your place in the lift; climb the tortuous staircase to Lombard Street ;pass along that narrow money-glutted thoroughfare, where scarlet-vested, tophatted bank-messengers take dignified way from the sign of the Grasshopper to the swinging doors of the Credit Lyonnais :if, crossing Gracechurch Street below the clock of the London South-W estern Bank, you enter less-aristocratic Fenchurch Street and take the first zig-zag turning on your left, you will find hidden between a stationers shop and a grocers two swing-doors, each with a brass name-plate, from which the black lettering, P. JACKSON AND COMPANY, CIGAR IM- PORTERS, has been almost erased by forty years of incessant polishing. And if you care to penetrate yet further round that gray, curving Lime Street, past the church of St. Andrew Undershaft, into the heart of Havana cigardom, St. Mary A xe, you will still find clustered round the maroon marble of the Baltic Exchange the warehouses of Schornstein Co., of Beresford Beresford, of Samuel Elkins and Son, and others with whom Peter traded, intrigued, lunched and gossiped, between the years 1903 and 1914. But you will not find, search the City as you may, Peter Jackson, sometime senior partner in Peter Jackson Company, and Chairman of Nirvana Limited, Manufacturers of High-grade Cigarettes. Because whatever War may have accomplished of good or evil to us other millions whom it caught up into its vortex to Peter it came like a great cleansing storm, terrifying in its violence, unfathomable in its purposes, but bearing him at last, past many rocks of doubt and fear, to sure harbourage, to certainty of body and of soul and, better even than these, to Love.
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