{"product_id":"2940013055575","title":"Lord Tony's Wife","description":"'Tyrant! tyrant! tyrant!'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was Pierre who spoke, his voice was hardly raised above a murmur, but\u003cbr\u003ethere was such an intensity of passion expressed in his face, in the\u003cbr\u003efingers of his hand which closed slowly and convulsively as if they were\u003cbr\u003eclutching the throat of a struggling viper, there was so much hate in\u003cbr\u003ethose muttered words, so much power, such compelling and awesome\u003cbr\u003edetermination that an ominous silence fell upon the village lads and the\u003cbr\u003emen who sat with him in the low narrow room of the auberge des Trois\u003cbr\u003eVertus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven the man in the tattered coat and threadbare breeches, who ­­\u003cbr\u003eperched upon the centre table---had been haranguing the company on the\u003cbr\u003esubject of the Rights of Man, paused in his peroration and looked down\u003cbr\u003eon Pierre half afraid of that fierce flame of passionate hate which his\u003cbr\u003eown words had helped to kindle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe silence, however, had only lasted a few moments, the next Pierre was\u003cbr\u003eon his feet, and a cry like that of a bull in a slaughter-house escaped\u003cbr\u003ehis throat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In the name of God!' he shouted, 'let us cease all that senseless\u003cbr\u003etalking. Haven't we planned enough and talked enough to satisfy our\u003cbr\u003epuling consciences? The time has come to strike, mes amis, to strike I\u003cbr\u003esay, to strike at those cursed aristocrats, who have made us what we\u003cbr\u003eare---ignorant, wretched, downtrodden--senseless clods to work our\u003cbr\u003efingers to the bone, our bodies till they break so that they may wallow\u003cbr\u003ein their pleasures and their luxuries! Strike, I say!' he reiterated\u003cbr\u003ewhile his eyes glowed and his breath came and went through his throat\u003cbr\u003ewith a hissing sound. 'Strike! as the men and women struck in Paris on\u003cbr\u003ethat great day in July. To them the Bastille stood for tyranny---and the\u003cbr\u003etyrant cowered, cringed, made terms---he was frightened at the wrath of\u003cbr\u003ethe people! That is what happened in Paris! That is what must happen in\u003cbr\u003eNantes. The château of the duc de Kernogan is our Bastille! Let us\u003cbr\u003estrike at it to-night, and if the arrogant aristocrat resists, we'll\u003cbr\u003eraze his house to the ground. The hour, the day, the darkness are all\u003cbr\u003epropitious. The arrangements hold good. The neighbours are ready.\u003cbr\u003eStrike, I say!'","brand":"Purple Cow Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069750919408,"sku":"2940013055575","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013055575_p0.jpg?v=1763576159","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013055575","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}