{"product_id":"2940013168671","title":"LITTLE MAID MARIAN","description":"_CONTENTS_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I.  A MUSTARD SEED            9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II.  THE SCHOOL-TEACHER       27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III.  A NEW ROAD               47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV.  COMPANIONS               67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   V.  BLACKBERRIES             87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI.  THE WHITE APRON         105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII.  PATTY'S LETTER          125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII.  A TRIP TO TOWN          143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX.  A VISIT TO PATTY        161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   X.  RUNNING AWAY            179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI.  A LETTER'S REPLY        199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XII.  THE CHRISTMAS TREE      217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_CHAPTER I_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_A Mustard Seed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cat and kitten were both eating supper and Marian was watching\u003cbr\u003ethem. Her own supper of bread and milk she had finished, and had\u003cbr\u003etaken the remains of it to Tippy and Dippy. Marian did not care very\u003cbr\u003emuch for bread and milk, but the cat and kitten did, as was plainly\u003cbr\u003eshown by the way they hunched themselves down in front of the tin\u003cbr\u003epan into which Marian had poured their supper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the next room Grandpa and Grandma Otway were sitting and little\u003cbr\u003ebits of their talk came to Marian's ears once in a while when her\u003cbr\u003ethoughts ceased to wander in other directions. \"If only one could\u003cbr\u003ehave faith to believe implicitly,\" Grandma Otway said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, and should say to that\u003cbr\u003emountain, be ye removed,\" quoted Grandpa Otway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarian sighed. They talked that way very often, she remembered, and\u003cbr\u003eshe herself had grown to consider it quite as difficult as did her\u003cbr\u003egrandmother, to exercise complete faith. She had made numberless\u003cbr\u003emighty efforts, and yet things did not come out as she supposed they\u003cbr\u003eought. She sat gravely watching the cat and kitten lap up the last\u003cbr\u003edrop of milk and carefully clean the sides of the pan in a manner\u003cbr\u003equite inelegant for humans, but no doubt entirely a matter of\u003cbr\u003eetiquette in cat society, and then when Tippy, having done her\u003cbr\u003eduty by the pan, turned her attention to making Dippy tidy,\u003cbr\u003eMarian walked slowly away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sun was setting behind the hills, and touching the tops of the\u003cbr\u003etrees along their base; further away the mountains were very dark\u003cbr\u003eagainst a yellow line of sky. Marian continued her way thoughtfully\u003cbr\u003etoward the garden, turned off before she reached the gate and\u003cbr\u003eclimbed a ladder which leaned against the side of the old brick\u003cbr\u003ewall. From the ladder one could reach a long limb of a scraggy apple\u003cbr\u003etree upon which hung early apples nearly ripe. Marian went up the\u003cbr\u003eladder very carefully, taking care not to catch her frock upon a\u003cbr\u003enail or a projecting twig as she crept along the stout limb to\u003cbr\u003esettle herself in a crotch of the tree. From this spot she could see\u003cbr\u003ethe distant sea, pinky purple, and shimmering silver.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147465507056,"sku":"2940013168671","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013168671_p0.jpg?v=1763588847","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013168671","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}