{"product_id":"2940015872583","title":"CUPID IN AFRICA","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e                                PART I\u003cbr\u003e                        THE MAKING OF BERTRAM\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                                                           PAGE\u003cbr\u003e           I  _Major Hugh Walsingham Green_                          7\u003cbr\u003e          II  _Mr. Charles Stayne-Brooker (or Herr Karl             10\u003cbr\u003e              Stein-Brücker)_\u003cbr\u003e         III  _Mrs. Stayne-Brooker—and Her Ex-Stepson_              13\u003cbr\u003e                               PART II\u003cbr\u003e                     THE BAKING OF BERTRAM BY WAR\u003cbr\u003e           I  _Bertram Becomes a Man of War_                        16\u003cbr\u003e          II  _And is Ordered to East Africa_                       28\u003cbr\u003e         III  _Preparations_                                        40\u003cbr\u003e          IV  _Terra Marique Jactatus_                              45\u003cbr\u003e           V  _Mrs. Stayne-Brooker_                                 59\u003cbr\u003e          VI  _Mombasa_                                             61\u003cbr\u003e         VII  _The Mombasa Club_                                    70\u003cbr\u003e        VIII  _Military and Naval Manœuvres_                        78\u003cbr\u003e          IX  _Bertram Invades Africa_                              97\u003cbr\u003e           X  _M’paga_                                             105\u003cbr\u003e          XI  _Food and Feeders_                                   112\u003cbr\u003e         XII  _Reflections_                                        123\u003cbr\u003e        XIII  _Baking_                                             137\u003cbr\u003e         XIV  _The Convoy_                                         146\u003cbr\u003e          XV  _Butindi_                                            154\u003cbr\u003e         XVI  _The Bristol Bar_                                    161\u003cbr\u003e        XVII  _More Baking_                                        171\u003cbr\u003e       XVIII  _Trial_                                              180\u003cbr\u003e         XIX  _Of a Pudding_                                       187\u003cbr\u003e          XX  _Stein-Brücker Meets Bertram Greene—and              195\u003cbr\u003e              Death_\u003cbr\u003e                               PART III\u003cbr\u003e                    THE BAKING OF BERTRAM BY LOVE\u003cbr\u003e           I  _Mrs. Stayne-Brooker Again_                       204\u003cbr\u003e          II  _Love_                                            208\u003cbr\u003e         III  _Love and War_                                    217\u003cbr\u003e          IV  _Baked_                                           226\u003cbr\u003e           V  _Finis_                                           236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003eTHE MAKING OF BERTRAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e_Major Hugh Walsingham Greene_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere never lived a more honourable, upright, scrupulous gentleman than\u003cbr\u003eMajor Hugh Walsingham Greene, and there seldom lived a duller, narrower,\u003cbr\u003emore pompous or more irascible one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNor, when the Great War broke out, and gave him something fresh to do and\u003cbr\u003eto think about, were there many sadder and unhappier men.  His had been a\u003cbr\u003eluckless and unfortunate life, what with his two wives and his one son;\u003cbr\u003ehis excellent intentions and deplorable achievements; his kindly heart\u003cbr\u003eand harsh exterior; his narrow escapes of decoration, recognition and\u003cbr\u003epromotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt cards he was _not_ lucky—and in love he . . . well—his first wife,\u003cbr\u003ewhom he adored, died after a year of him; and his second ran away after\u003cbr\u003ethree months of his society.  She ran away with Mr. Charles\u003cbr\u003eStayne-Brooker (elsewhere the Herr Doktor Karl Stein-Brücker), the man of\u003cbr\u003eall men, whom he particularly and peculiarly loathed.  And his son, his\u003cbr\u003eonly son and heir!  The boy was a bitter disappointment to him, turning\u003cbr\u003eout badly—a poet, an artist, a musician, a wretched student and\u003cbr\u003e“intellectual,” a fellow who won prizes and scholarships and suchlike by\u003cbr\u003ethe hatful, and never carried off, or even tried for, a “pot,” in his\u003cbr\u003elife.  Took after his mother, poor boy, and was the first of the family,\u003cbr\u003esince God-knows-when, to grow up a dam’ civilian.  Father fought and bled\u003cbr\u003ein Egypt, South Africa, Burma, China, India; grandfather in the Crimea\u003cbr\u003eand Mutiny, great-grandfather in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, ancestors\u003cbr\u003ewith Marlborough, the Stuarts, Drake—scores of them: and this chap, _his_\u003cbr\u003eson, _their_ descendant, a wretched creature of whom you could no more\u003cbr\u003emake a soldier than you could make a service saddle of a sow’s ear!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a comfort to the Major that he only saw the nincompoop on the rare\u003cbr\u003eoccasions of his visits to England, when he honestly did his best to hide\u003cbr\u003efrom the boy (who worshipped him) that he would sooner have seen him win\u003cbr\u003eone cup for boxing, than a hundred prizes for his confounded literature,\u003cbr\u003eart, music, classics, and study generally.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157670281456,"sku":"2940015872583","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015872583","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}