{"product_id":"2940013087538","title":"RODNEY STONE","description":"CHAPTER I--FRIAR'S OAK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its\u003cbr\u003eyouth have already warnings which tell us that it has outworn us.\u003cbr\u003eWe put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of\u003cbr\u003ethe great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with\u003cbr\u003eour children that we talk it is a hard matter to make them\u003cbr\u003eunderstand.  We and our fathers before us lived much the same life,\u003cbr\u003ebut they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a\u003cbr\u003edifferent age.  It is true that we can put history-books into their\u003cbr\u003ehands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and\u003cbr\u003etwenty years with that great and evil man.  They can learn how\u003cbr\u003eFreedom fled from the whole broad continent, and how Nelson's blood\u003cbr\u003ewas shed, and Pitt's noble heart was broken in striving that she\u003cbr\u003eshould not pass us for ever to take refuge with our brothers across\u003cbr\u003ethe Atlantic.  All this they can read, with the date of this treaty\u003cbr\u003eor that battle, but I do not know where they are to read of\u003cbr\u003eourselves, of the folk we were, and the lives we led, and how the\u003cbr\u003eworld seemed to our eyes when they were young as theirs are now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf I take up my pen to tell you about this, you must not look for\u003cbr\u003eany story at my hands, for I was only in my earliest manhood when\u003cbr\u003ethese things befell; and although I saw something of the stories of\u003cbr\u003eother lives, I could scarce claim one of my own.  It is the love of\u003cbr\u003ea woman that makes the story of a man, and many a year was to pass\u003cbr\u003ebefore I first looked into the eyes of the mother of my children.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145542910192,"sku":"2940013087538","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013087538_p0.jpg?v=1763576784","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013087538","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}