{"product_id":"2940013054363","title":"The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories","description":"Friends and family influence mustered strong for Ludovic at the trial six weeks later. His lawyer's speech was the finest effort, it was said, ever listened to by an Idaho jury. The ladies went to hear it, and to look at the handsome prisoner, who seemed to grow visibly old as the days of the trial went by.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut those who are acquainted with the average Western jury need not be told that it was not influence that did it, nor the lawyer's eloquence, nor the court's fine-spun legal definitions, nor even the women's tears. They looked at the boy, and thought of their own boys, or they looked inside, and thought of themselves; and they concluded that society might take its chances with that young man at large. They stayed out an hour, out of respect to their oath, and then brought in a verdict of \"Not guilty;\" and the audience had to be suppressed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut after the jury's verdict there is society, and all the tongues that will talk, long after the tears are dry. And then comes God in the silence—and Phebe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe men all say she is too good for him, whose name has been in everybody's mouth. They say it, even though they do not know the cruel way in which he won her love. But the women say that Phebe, though undeniably a saint (and \"the sweetest thing that ever lived\"), is yet a woman, incapable of inflicting judgment upon the man she loves.","brand":"Del Williams Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069648552176,"sku":"2940013054363","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013054363_p0.jpg?v=1763575820","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013054363","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}