{"product_id":"2940013208452","title":"A GIRL OF THE PEOPLE","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You have kept us waiting an age! Come along, Bet, do.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She ain't going to funk it, surely!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, no, not she,--she's a good 'un, Bet is,--come along, Bet. Joe\u003cbr\u003eWilkins is waiting for us round the corner, and he says Sam is to be\u003cbr\u003ethere, and Jimmy, and Hester Wright: do come along, now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Will Hester Wright sing?\" suddenly demanded the girl who was being\u003cbr\u003eassailed by all these remarks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, tip-top, a new song from one of the music halls in London. Now\u003cbr\u003ethen, be you coming or not, Bet?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, no, she's funking it,\" suddenly called out a dancing little sprite\u003cbr\u003eof a newspaper girl. She came up close to Bet as she spoke, and shook\u003cbr\u003ea dirty hand in her face, and gazed up at her with two mirthful,\u003cbr\u003eteasing, wicked black eyes. \"Bet's funking it,--she's a mammy's\u003cbr\u003egirl,--she's tied to her mammy's apron-strings, he-he-he!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other girls all joined in the laugh; and Bet, who was standing\u003cbr\u003estolid and straight in the centre of the group, first flushed angrily,\u003cbr\u003ethen turned pale and bit her lips.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I ain't funking,\" she said; \"nobody can ever say as there's any funk\u003cbr\u003eabout me,--there's my share. Good-night.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe tossed a shilling on to the pavement, and before the astonished\u003cbr\u003egirls could intercept her, turned on her heel and marched away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mocking laugh or two floated after her on the night air, then the\u003cbr\u003eblack-eyed girl picked up the shilling, said Bet was a \"good 'un,\u003cbr\u003ethough she wor that contrairy,\" and the whole party set off singing\u003cbr\u003eand shouting, up the narrow street of this particular Liverpool slum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBet, when she left her companions, walked quickly in the direction of\u003cbr\u003ethe docks; the pallor still continued on her brown cheeks, and a dazed\u003cbr\u003eexpression filled her heavy eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"They clinched it when they said I wor a mammy's girl,\" she muttered.\u003cbr\u003e\"There ain't no funk in me, but there was a look about mother this\u003cbr\u003emorning that I couldn't a-bear. No, I ain't a mammy's girl, not I.\u003cbr\u003eThere was never nought so good about me, and I have give away my last\u003cbr\u003eshilling,--flung it into the gutter. Well, never mind. I ain't tied\u003cbr\u003eto nobody's apron-strings--no, not I. Wish I wor, wish I wor.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069840900336,"sku":"2940013208452","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013208452_p0.jpg?v=1763577829","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013208452","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}