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Compton Mackenzie. The Passionate Elopement
The Passionate Elopement
Table of Contents
Chapter the First THE TOILET
Chapter the Second THE PUMP ROOM
Chapter the Third THE BLUE BOAR
Chapter the Fourth CURTAIN MAZE
Chapter the Fifth THE PUBLICK BREAKFAST
Chapter V a THE ORDER OF THE EXQUISITE MOB
Chapter V (resumed)
Chapter the Sixth BAVERSTOCK BARN
Chapter the Seventh SUNDAY MORNING
Chapter the Eighth THE GREAT REBELLION
Chapter the Ninth THE ASSEMBLY
Chapter the Tenth AFTER THE ASSEMBLY
Chapter the Eleventh NOX ALBA
Chapter the Twelfth WET DAYS
Chapter the Thirteenth MONARCHY IN ACTION
Chapter the Fourteenth MONARCHY IN REPOSE
Chapter the Fifteenth PHŒBUS ADEST
Chapter the Sixteenth THE CHINESE MASQUERADE
Chapter the Seventeenth THE GRAND MINUET OF CATHAY
Chapter the Eighteenth THE CONFIDANTE
Chapter the Nineteenth BLACKHART FARM WITH A COCK-FIGHT
Chapter the Twentieth IN WHICH EVERYTHING GROWS BUT THE PLOT
Chapter the Twenty-first CURTAIN POLLS
Chapter the Twenty-second THE CURTAIN ROD
Chapter the Twenty-third SPACE BETWEEN AN HEROICK COUPLET
Chapter the Twenty-fourth DAISH'S ROOMS[2]
Chapter the Twenty-fifth QUARTS OF BURGUNDY
Chapter the Twenty-sixth AND THE DREGS OF THE SAME
Chapter the Twenty-seventh TIME FOR REFLECTION
Chapter the Twenty-eighth THE LOVE CHASE
Chapter the Twenty-ninth THE BASKET OF ROSES
Chapter the Thirtieth SIR GEORGE REPINGTON
Chapter the Thirty-first A TALE WITH AN INTERRUPTED MORAL
Chapter the Thirty-second THE HORRID ADVENTURES OF BEAU RIPPLE AND MRS. COURTEEN
Chapter the Thirty-third THE HIGHWAYMEN
Chapter the Thirty-fourth OLD ACQUAINTANCE
Chapter the Thirty-fifth THE CUTTING OF A DIAMOND
Chapter the Thirty-sixth THE SCARLET DAWN
Chapter the Thirty-seventh APRIL FOOLS
Chapter the Thirty-eighth BEAU LOVELY
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Compton MacKenzie
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Mr. Lovely began to think Tony Clare was confoundedly young, and when one young man begins to think another young man confoundedly young, it is usually a convincing proof that the pensive young man is deep in love.
"What's a fellow to do?" he sighed as he turned into the coffee-room. It was empty, so he called for a draught of ale, put his feet on the window seat and surveyed the passers-by. He wondered what had become of his friends, and why the d——l all the world was gone mad because the sun shone with unwonted brilliance for the middle of February. Then he remembered it was Valentine day and amused himself with the manufacture of paper darts which he shot at the prettiest young women in range. Unluckily, in an attempt to pierce the ripe heart of buxom Miss Page who assisted at the cook-shop, he wounded the Rector on the nose. This set him moralizing on the fortune of Love. Could anything be more incongruous than Love and the Rector. Yet why not? We are all targets of a dimpled nudity. The phrase caught his fancy. Numberless Cupids in attitudes of attack floated before his mind's eye. "Demme!" thought Mr. Lovely, "my brain is like an Italian ceiling. Targets of a dimpled nudity!" He flung back the lattice to its utmost extent and leaned out to the morning whence the chatter of the world without floated into the sunny room.
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