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Title: Plashers Mead
A Novel

Author: Compton Mackenzie

Illustrator: Alfred James Dewey

Release Date: July 20, 2010 [EBook #33206]

Language: English

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_Plashers Mead_

Compton Mackenzie

PLASHERS MEAD

[Illustration: GUY AND PAULINE]

PLASHERS MEAD

BY
COMPTON MACKENZIE

AUTHOR OF _CARNIVAL_

[Illustration]

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK & LONDON

Copyright, 1915, by Harper & Brothers

TO
GENERAL
SIR IAN HAMILTON
G.C.B., D.S.O.
AND THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. AUTUMN
SEPTEMBER: OCTOBER: NOVEMBER 3

II. WINTER
DECEMBER: JANUARY: FEBRUARY 55

III. SPRING
MARCH: APRIL: MAY 99

IV. SUMMER
JUNE: JULY: AUGUST 155

V. ANOTHER AUTUMN
SEPTEMBER: OCTOBER: NOVEMBER 205

VI. ANOTHER WINTER
DECEMBER: JANUARY: FEBRUARY 253

VII. ANOTHER SPRING
MARCH: APRIL: MAY 297

VIII. ANOTHER SUMMER
JUNE: JULY: AUGUST 339

IX. EPIGRAPH
GUY: PAULINE 371

AUTUMN

SEPTEMBER

The slow train puffed away into the unadventurous country; and the bees
buzzing round the wine-dark dahlias along the platform were once again
audible. The last farewell that Guy Hazlewood flung over his shoulder to
a parting friend was more casual than it would have been had he not at
the same moment been turning to ask the solitar