{"product_id":"2940013740426","title":"Cressage","description":"When Walter Garnet, in his rooms at Stafford College, Oxford,\u003cbr\u003elearned from the shouting of an uproarious friend in the quad that\u003cbr\u003ehe had got his First in Greats, he threw down the book he had been\u003cbr\u003ereading, and leaned out of the window, to be greeted by a torrent\u003cbr\u003eof congratulation to which he replied, \"Thanks very much!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I never saw such an old slug!\" said his breathless friend.\u003cbr\u003e\"Aren't you going to DO anything?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Come up and see!\" said Garnet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTommy Hobday clattered up the narrow wooden stairs.  The room, a\u003cbr\u003epleasant little panelled place, was half dismantled.  On the table\u003cbr\u003ewas a pile of books and a smaller pile of notebooks and papers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hullo,\" said Tommy, \"I didn't know you were going to clear out so\u003cbr\u003equick.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, I am off to-morrow.  I shall just come back to take my\u003cbr\u003edegree.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don't believe you are a bit pleased!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, I am--very much.  At least I should have been furious if I\u003cbr\u003ehadn't got my First.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, you are the coolest fish!  I should have been all over the\u003cbr\u003eplace by now, if I had been you.  But what are we going to do?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, I'll give you a dinner somewhere to-night if you will order\u003cbr\u003eit and get the men.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Won't I just!  Do you run to champagne?\" asked Tommy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, anything you like.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone in particular?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, Bim and Menzies and any of the old lot, not more than eight\u003cbr\u003ebeside ourselves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe irrepressible Tommy looked at him.  \"What's the matter with\u003cbr\u003eyou, Walter?  You seem to have begun practising to be a Don\u003cbr\u003ealready.  Whence this dejected mien?\" and Hobday burst into a few\u003cbr\u003ebars of an opera-bouffe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why, 'at such a time as this,' as the Dean said in his sermon on\u003cbr\u003eSunday, 'the mind naturally reverts to its spiritual horizon.  What\u003cbr\u003ebrave designs, what meagre fulfilment!'\" and Walter rolled his\u003cbr\u003eeyes, and extended a sidelong forefinger at Tommy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Come, that's a little better.  Now I'll go and rout the guys out.\u003cbr\u003eAny preference as to place?\"","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070308827376,"sku":"2940013740426","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013740426_p0.jpg?v=1763589614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013740426","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}