SYLVIA &
MICHAEL
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
SYLVIA & MICHAEL
PLASHERS MEAD
SYLVIA SCARLETT
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Harper & Brothers
Publishers
THE LATER ADVENTURES OF SYLVIA SCARLETT
By COMPTON MACKENZIE
Author of "SYLVIA SCARLETT" "PLASHERS MEAD" ETC.
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
SYLVIA & MICHAEL
Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published July, 1919
TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER AND IN DEEP AFFECTION TO MY MOTHER |
SYLVIA &
MICHAEL
Sylvia & Michael
CHAPTER I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
BY the time that Sylvia reached Paris she no longer blamed anybody butherself for what had happened. Everything had come about through her owngreed in trying simultaneously to snatch from life artistic success anddomestic bliss: she had never made a serious attempt to choose betweenthem, and now she had lost both; for she could not expect to run awaylike this and succeed elsewhere to the same degree or even in the sameway as in London. No doubt all her friends would deplore the step shehad taken and think it madness to ruin her career; but after so muchadvertisement of her marriage, after the way she had revealed her mostintimate thoughts to Olive, after the confidence she had shown inArthur's devotion, there was n