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Title: Carnival

Author: Compton Mackenzie

Release Date: June 28, 2010 [EBook #33012]

Language: English

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CARNIVAL

BY

COMPTON MACKENZIE

AUTHOR OF "THE PASSIONATE ELOPEMENT"

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published March, 1912_

Printed in the United States of America

TO
MARTIN SECKER

_"Put out the light; and then--put out the light."_

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE BIRTH OF COLUMBINE 1

II. FAIRIES AT THE CHRISTENING 8

III. DAWN SHADOWS 18

IV. THE ANCIENT MISCHIEF 30

V. PRETTY APPLES IN EDEN 40

VI. SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR 51

VII. AMBITION WAKES 61

VIII. AMBITION LOOKS IN THE GLASS 71

IX. LIFE, ART, AND LOVE 89

X. DRURY LANE AND COVENT GARDEN 108

XI. THE ORIENT PALACE OF VARIETIES 120

XII. GROWING OLD 131

XIII. THE BALLET OF CUPID 140

XIV. RAIN ON THE ROOF 152

XV. CRAS AMET 153

XVI. LOVE'S HALCYON 165

XVII. COLUMBINE ASLEEP 175

XVIII. SWEET AND TWENTY 176

XIX. THE GIFT OF OPALS 186

XX. FETE GALANTE 199

XXI. EPILOGUE 216

XXII. THE UNFINISHED STATUE 221

XXIII. TWO LETTERS 234

XXIV. JOURNEY'S END 241

XXV. MONOTONE 249

XXVI. IN SCYROS 255

XXVII. QUARTETTE 271

XXVIII. ST.