{"product_id":"2940013365988","title":"IF WINTER COMES","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE\u003cbr\u003e                      PAGE\u003cbr\u003eMABEL                   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNONA                   77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEFFIE                 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FOUR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMABEL--EFFIE--NONA    317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMABEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIF WINTER COMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo take Mark Sabre at the age of thirty-four, and in the year 1912, and\u003cbr\u003eat the place Penny Green is to necessitate looking back a little towards\u003cbr\u003ethe time of his marriage in 1904, but happens to find him in good light\u003cbr\u003efor observation. Encountering him hereabouts, one who had shared school\u003cbr\u003edays with him at his preparatory school so much as twenty-four years\u003cbr\u003eback would have found matter for recognition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA usefully garrulous person, one Hapgood, a solicitor, found much.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whom do you think I met yesterday? Old Sabre! You remember old Sabre at\u003cbr\u003eold Wickamote's?... Yes, that's the chap. Used to call him Puzzlehead,\u003cbr\u003eremember? Because he used to screw up his forehead over things old\u003cbr\u003eWickamote or any of the other masters said and sort of drawl out, 'Well,\u003cbr\u003eI don't see that, sir.'... Yes, rather!... And then that other\u003cbr\u003eexpression of his. Just the opposite. When old Wickamote or some one had\u003cbr\u003elanded him, or all of us, with some dashed punishment, and we were\u003cbr\u003egassing about it, used to screw up his nut in the same way and say,\u003cbr\u003e'Yes, but I see what he _means_.' And some one would say, 'Well, what\u003cbr\u003edoes he mean, you ass?' and he'd start gassing some rot till some one\u003cbr\u003esaid, 'Good lord, fancy sticking up for a master!' And old Puzzlehead\u003cbr\u003ewould say, 'You sickening fool, I'm not sticking _up_ for him. I'm only\u003cbr\u003esaying he's right from how he looks at it and it's no good saying he's\u003cbr\u003ewrong.'... Ha! Funny days.... Jolly nice chap, though, old Puzzlehead\u003cbr\u003ewas.... Yes, I met him.... Fact, I run into him occasionally. We do a\u003cbr\u003emild amount of business with his firm. I buzz down there about once a\u003cbr\u003eyear. Tidborough. He's changed, of course. So have you, you know. That\u003cbr\u003eVandyke beard, what? Ha! Old Sabre's not done anything outrageous like\u003cbr\u003ethat. Real thing I seemed to notice about him when I bumped into him\u003cbr\u003eyesterday was that he didn't look very cheery. Looked to me rather as\u003cbr\u003ethough he'd lost something and was wondering where it was. Ha!\u003cbr\u003eBut--dashed funny--I mentioned something about that appalling speech\u003cbr\u003ethat chap made in that blasphemy case yesterday.... Eh? yes, absolutely\u003cbr\u003efrightful, wasn't it?--well, I'm dashed if old Sabre didn't puzzle up\u003cbr\u003ehis nut in exactly the same old way and say, 'Yes, but I see what he\u003cbr\u003e_means_.' I reminded him and ragged him about it no end. Absolutely the\u003cbr\u003esame words and expression. Funny chap ... nice chap....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What did he say the blasphemy man meant? Oh, I don't know; some bilge,\u003cbr\u003ejust as he used to about the masters. You know the man talked some\u003cbr\u003erubbish about how the State couldn't have it both ways--couldn't\u003cbr\u003eblaspheme against God by flatly denying that all men were equal and\u003cbr\u003ebasing all its legislation on keeping one class up and the other class\u003cbr\u003edown; couldn't do that and at the same time prosecute him because he\u003cbr\u003esaid that religion was--well, you know what he said; I'm dashed if I\u003cbr\u003elike to repeat it. Joke of it was that I found myself using exactly the\u003cbr\u003esame expression to old Sabre as we used to use at school. I said, 'Good\u003cbr\u003elord, man, fancy sticking up for a chap like that!' And old Sabre--by\u003cbr\u003eJove, I tell you there we all were in a flash back in the playground at\u003cbr\u003eold Wickamote's, down in that corner by the workshop, all kids again and\u003cbr\u003eold Puzzlehead flicking his hand out of his pocket--remember how he used\u003cbr\u003eto?--like _that_--and saying, 'You sickening fool, I'm not sticking _up_\u003cbr\u003efor him, I'm only saying he's right from how he looks at it and it's no\u003cbr\u003egood saying he's wrong!' Rum, eh, after all those years.... No, he\u003cbr\u003edidn't say, 'You sickening fool' this time. I reminded him how he used\u003cbr\u003eto, and he laughed and said, 'Yes; did I? Well, I still get riled, you\u003cbr\u003eknow, when chaps can't see--' And then he said 'Yes, \"sickening fool\";\u003cbr\u003eso I did; odd!' and he looked out of the window as though he was looking\u003cbr\u003ea thousand miles away--this was in his office, you know--and chucked\u003cbr\u003etalking absolutely....","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147517968624,"sku":"2940013365988","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013365988_p0.jpg?v=1763580467","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013365988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}