{"product_id":"2940012964533","title":"Born in Exile","description":"Part I\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003eThe summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session of Whitelaw\u003cbr\u003eCollege was marked by a special ceremony, preceding the wonted\u003cbr\u003edistribution of academic rewards. At eleven in the morning (just as\u003cbr\u003ea heavy shower fell from the smoke-canopy above the roaring streets)\u003cbr\u003ethe municipal authorities, educational dignitaries, and prominent\u003cbr\u003eburgesses of Kingsmill assembled on an open space before the College\u003cbr\u003eto unveil a statue of Sir Job Whitelaw. The honored baronet had\u003cbr\u003ebeen six months dead. Living, he opposed the desire of his\u003cbr\u003efellow-citizens to exhibit even on canvas his gnarled features and\u003cbr\u003ebald crown; but when his modesty ceased to have a voice in the\u003cbr\u003ematter, no time was lost in raising a memorial of the great\u003cbr\u003emanufacturer, the self-made millionaire, the borough member in three\u003cbr\u003eParliaments, the enlightened and benevolent founder of an institute\u003cbr\u003ewhich had conferred humane distinction on the money-making Midland\u003cbr\u003etown. Beneath such a sky, orations were necessarily curtailed; but\u003cbr\u003eSir Job had always been impatient of much talk. An interval of two\u003cbr\u003eor three hours dispersed the rain-clouds and bestowed such grace of\u003cbr\u003esunshine as Kingsmill might at this season temperately desire; then,\u003cbr\u003ewhilst the marble figure was getting dried,--with soot-stains\u003cbr\u003ewhich already foretold its negritude of a year hence,--again\u003cbr\u003estreamed towards the College a varied multitude, official, parental,\u003cbr\u003epupillary. The students had nothing distinctive in their garb, but\u003cbr\u003ehere and there flitted the cap and gown of Professor or lecturer,\u003cbr\u003esignal for doffing of beavers along the line of its progress.\u003cbr\u003eAmong the more deliberate of the throng was a slender, upright,","brand":"unique5stardeals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173551816944,"sku":"2940012964533","price":4.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012964533_p0.jpg?v=1763574514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012964533","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}