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Title: Sinister Street, vol. 2

Author: Compton Mackenzie

Release Date: September 22, 2010 [EBook #33798]

Language: English

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SINISTER STREET

BY

COMPTON MACKENZIE

AUTHOR OF "CARNIVAL," "YOUTH'S ENCOUNTER," ETC.

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1919

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

DREAMING SPIRES

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE FIRST DAY 3

II. THE FIRST WEEK 32

III. THE FIRST TERM 47

IV. CHEYNE WALK 63

V. YOUTH'S DOMINATION 84

VI. GRAY AND BLUE 110

VII. VENNER'S 143

VIII. THE OXFORD LOOKING-GLASS 165

IX. THE LESSON OF SPAIN 183

X. STELLA IN OXFORD 209

XI. SYMPATHY 225

XII. 202 HIGH 245

XIII. PLASHERS MEAD 269

XIV. 99 ST. GILES 288

XV. THE LAST TERM 308

XVI. THE LAST WEEK 319

XVII. THE LAST DAY 333

BOOK TWO

ROMANTIC EDUCATION

CHAPTER PAGE

I. OSTIA DITIS 349

II. NEPTUNE CRESCENT 371

III. THE CAFE D'ORANGE 401

IV. LEPPARD STREET 427

V. THE INNERMOST CIRCLE 481

VI. TINDERBOX LANE 496

VII. THE GATE OF IVORY 552

VIII. SEEDS OF POMEGRANATE 583

IX. THE GATE OF HORN 602

X. THE OLD WORLD 652

EPILOGICAL LETTER TO
JOHN NICOLAS MAVROGORADATO 655

BOOK ONE

DREAMING SPIRES

Bright memories of young poetic pleasure
In free companionship, the loving stress
Of all life-beauty, lull'