{"product_id":"2940013037588","title":"Helena's Path","description":"CHAPTER                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I AMBROSE, LORD LYNBOROUGH                3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II LARGELY TOPOGRAPHICAL                  15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III OF LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS              33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV THE MESSAGE OF A PADLOCK               52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V THE BEGINNING OF WAR                   70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI EXERCISE BEFORE BREAKFAST              90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII ANOTHER WEDGE!                        110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII THE MARCHESA MOVES                    127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IX LYNBOROUGH DROPS A CATCH              148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        X IN THE LAST RESORT                    171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XI AN ARMISTICE                          186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XII AN EMBASSAGE                          206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIII THE FEAST OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST         223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHELENA'S PATH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Chapter One_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAMBROSE, LORD LYNBOROUGH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommon opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a\u003cbr\u003epeerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week\u003cbr\u003eand a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an eminent\u003cbr\u003eman; as it was, he turned out only a singularly erratic individual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much for common opinion. Let no more be heard of its dull utilitarian\u003cbr\u003ejudgements! There are plenty of eminent men--at the moment, it is\u003cbr\u003ebelieved, no less than seventy Cabinet and ex-Cabinet Ministers (or\u003cbr\u003ethereabouts)--to say nothing of Bishops, Judges, and the British\u003cbr\u003eAcademy,--and all this in a nook of the world! (And the world too is a\u003cbr\u003epoint!) Lynborough was something much more uncommon; it is not, however,\u003cbr\u003equite easy to say what. Let the question be postponed; perhaps the story\u003cbr\u003eitself will answer it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe started life--or was started in it--in a series of surroundings of\u003cbr\u003eunimpeachable orthodoxy--Eton, Christ Church, the Grenadier Guards. He\u003cbr\u003eleft each of these schools of mental culture and bodily discipline, not\u003cbr\u003eunder a cloud--that metaphor would be ludicrously inept--but in an\u003cbr\u003eexplosion. That, having been thus shot out of the first, he managed to\u003cbr\u003eenter the second--that, having been shot out of the second, he walked\u003cbr\u003eplacidly into the third--that, having been shot out of the third, he\u003cbr\u003esuffered no apparent damage from his repeated propulsions--these are\u003cbr\u003ematters explicable only by a secret knowledge of British institutions.\u003cbr\u003eHis father was strong, his mother came of stock even stronger; he\u003cbr\u003ehimself--Ambrose Caverly as he then was--was very popular, and\u003cbr\u003eextraordinarily handsome in his unusual outlandish style.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121045881072,"sku":"2940013037588","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013037588_p0.jpg?v=1763576073","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013037588","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}