IF WINTER BY A. S. M. HUTCHINSON BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1922 Copyright, 1921, BY A. S. M. HUTCHINSON. All rights reserved
Published August, 1921 Reprinted August, 1921 twice Reprinted
September, 1921 four times Reprinted October, 1921 three times
Reprinted November, 1921 five times Reprinted December, 1921 eight
times Reprinted January, 1922 four times Reprinted February, 1922
twice Reprinted March, 1922 Reprinted April, 1922 Reprinted July,
1922 Reprinted September, 1922 Reprinted November, 1922 FEINTED IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . . . Wind, If Winter comes, can
Spring be far behind SHELLEY 1153502 CONTENTS PART ONE PAGE MABEL i
PART TWO NONA 77 PART THREE EFFIE 187 PART FOUR MABEL EFFIE NONA
317 PART ONE MABEL F WINTER COMES CHAPTER I 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.
Whom do you think I met yesterday Old Sabre You remember old Sabre
at old Wickamotes . . . Yes, that s the chap. Used to call him
Puzzlehead, temember 1 Because he used to screw up his forehead
over things old kWickamote or any of the other masters said and
sort of drawl out, Well, I dont 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, andwe were gassing about it, used to screw up
his nut in the same way and say, Yes, but I see what he means And
some one would say, Well, what does he mean, you ass and he d start
gassing some rot till some one said, Good IF WINTER COMES ford,
fancy sticking up for a master And old Puzzle head would say, You
sickening fool, I m not sticking up for him. I m only saying he s
right from how he looks at it and it s no good saying he s wrong
... Ha Funny days. . . . Jolly nice chap, though, old Puzzle head
was. . . . Yes, I met him. . . . Fact, I ran into him occasionally.
We do a mild amount of business with his firm. I buzz down there
about once a yeat. Tid borough. He s changed, of course. So have
you, you know. That Vandyke beard, what Ha Old Sab e s not done
anything outrageous like that. Real thing I seemed to notice about
him when I bumped into him yes terday was that he did nt look very
cheery. Looked to me rather as though he d lost something and was
wondering where it was. Ha But dashed funny I mentioned something
about that appalling speech that chap made in that blasphemy case
yesterday. ... Eh yes, absolutely frightful, wasnt it well, Im
dashed if old Sabre did nt puzzle up his nut in exactly the same
old way and say, Yes, but I see what he means I reminded him and
ragged him about it no end. Absolutely the same words and
expression. Funny chap . . . nice chap. . . . What did he say the
blasphemy man meant Oh, J dont know some bilge, just as he used to
about the masters. You know the man talked some rubbish aboul how
the State couldnt have it both ways could n 1 blaspheme against God
by flatly denying that all men wen equal and basing all its
legislation on keeping one class uf andthe other class down could
nt do that and at the same time prosecute him because he said that
religion was well, you know what he said I m dashed if I like to
repeat it. Joke of it was that I found myself using exactly the
same expression to old Sabre as we used to ttse at school. I said,
Good lord, man, fancy sticking up for a chap like that And old
Sabre by Jove, I tell
General
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