POOR RELATIONS BY THE SAME AUTHOR POOR RELATIONS SYLVIA & MICHAEL PLASHERS MEAD SYLVIA SCARLETT ———————————— Harper & Brothers Publishers POOR RELATIONS POOR RELATIONS POOR RELATIONS POOR RELATIONS By COMPTON MACKENZIE Author of "SYLVIA SCARLETT" "SYLVIA AND MICHAEL" ETC. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON POOR RELATIONS Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published February, 1920 B-U THIS THEME IN C MAJOR WITH VARIATIONS IS INSCRIBED TO THE ROMANTIC AND MYSTERIOUS MAJOR C BY ONE WHO WAS PRIVILEGED TO SERVE UNDER HIM DURING MORE THAN TWO YEARS OF WAR CAPRI, APRIL 30, 1919. Poor Relations Poor Relations Poor Relations Poor Relations CHAPTER I THERE was nothing to distinguish the departure of the Murmania from that of any other big liner leaving New York in October for Liverpool or Southampton. At the crowded gangways there was the usual rain of ultimate kisses, from the quayside the usual gale of speeding handkerchiefs. Ladies in blanket-coats handed over to the arrangement of their table-stewards the expensive bouquets presented by friends who, as the case might be, had been glad or sorry to see them go. Middle-aged gentlemen, who were probably not
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