If Winter Comes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from If Winter Comes

To take Mark Sabre at the age of thirty-four, and in the year 1912, and at the place Penny Green is to necessitate looking back a little towards the time of his marriage in 1904, but happens to find him in good light for observa tion. Encountering him hereabouts, one who had shared school days with him at his preparatory school so much as twenty-four years back would have found matter for recognition.
A usefully garrulous person, one Hapgood, a solicitor, found much.

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To take Mark Sabre at the age of thirty-four, and in the
year 1912, and at the place Penny Green is to necessitate
looking back a little towards the time of his marriage in
1904, but happens to find him in good light for observation.
Encountering him hereabouts, one who had shared
school days with him at his preparatory s·chool so much
as twenty-four years back would have found matter for
recognition.
A usefully garrulous person, one Hapgood, a solicitor,
found much.
" Whom do you think I met yesterday? Old Sabre!
You remember old Sabre at old Wickamote's? . . . Yes,
that's the chap. Used to call him Puzzlehead, lemember?
I Because he used to screw up his forehead over things old
I vVickamote or any of the other masters said and sort of
drawl out, 'Well, I don't see that, sir.' . . . Yes, rather!
And then that other expression of his. Just the
opposite. When old Wickamote or some one had landed
him, or all of us, with some dashed punishment, and we
were gassing

Table of Contents

PART ONE; PAGE; MABEL • • I; PART TWO; NONA • 77; PART THREE; EFFIE • 187; PART FOUR; MABEL - EFFIE - NONA • • 317

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