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THE ALTAR STEPS
BY
COMPTON MACKENZIE
_Author of "Carnival," "Youth's Encounter,"
"Poor Relations," etc._

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
1922


_The only portrait in this book is
of one who is now dead_


THIS BOOK, THE PRELUDE TO
_The Parson's Progress_
I INSCRIBE
WITH DEEPEST AFFECTION
TO MY MOTHER
_S. Valentine's Day, 1922._


CONTENTS
I The Bishop's Shadow
II The Lima Street Mission
III Religious Education
IV Husband and Wife
V Palm Sunday
VI Nancepean
VII Life at Nancepean
VIII The Wreck
IX Slowbridge
X Whit-Sunday
XI Meade Cantorum
XII The Pomeroy Affair
XIII Wych-on-the-Wold
XIV St. Mark's Day
XV The Scholarship
XVI Chatsea
XVII The Drunken Priest
XVIII Silchester College Mission
XIX The Altar for the Dead
XX Father Rowley
XXI Points of View
XXII Sister Esther Magdalene
XXIII Malford Abbey
XXIV The Order of St. George
XXV Suscipe Me, Domine
XXVI Addition
XXVII Multiplication
XXVIII Division
XXIX Subtraction
XXX The New Bishop of Silchester
XXXI Silchester Theological College
XXXII Ember Days


THE ALTAR STEPS

CHAPTER I
THE BISHOP'S SHADOW

Frightened by some alarm of sleep that was forgotten in the moment of
waking, a little boy threw back the bedclothes and with quick heart and
breath sat listening to the torrents of darkness that went rolling by.
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