{"product_id":"2940013225367","title":"GIRLS OF THE FOREST","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GUEST WHO WAS NEITHER OLD NOR YOUNG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a beautiful summer's afternoon, and the girls were seated in a\u003cbr\u003ecircle on the lawn in front of the house. The house was an old\u003cbr\u003eElizabethan mansion, which had been added to from time to time--fresh\u003cbr\u003eadditions jutting out here and running up there. There were all sorts of\u003cbr\u003eunexpected nooks and corners to be found in the old house--a flight of\u003cbr\u003estairs just where you did not look for any, and a baize door shutting\u003cbr\u003eaway the world at the moment when you expected to behold a long vista\u003cbr\u003einto space. The house itself was most charming and inviting-looking; but\u003cbr\u003eit was also, beyond doubt, much neglected. The doors were nearly\u003cbr\u003edestitute of paint, and the papers on many of the walls had completely\u003cbr\u003elost their original patterns. In many instances there were no papers,\u003cbr\u003eonly discolored walls, which at one time had been gay with paint and\u003cbr\u003erendered beautiful with pictures. The windows were destitute of curtains;\u003cbr\u003ethe carpets on the floors were reduced to holes and patches. The old\u003cbr\u003epictures in the picture gallery still remained, however, and looked down\u003cbr\u003eon the young girls who flitted about there on rainy days with kindly, or\u003cbr\u003esearching, or malevolent eyes as suited the characters of those men and\u003cbr\u003ewomen who were portrayed in them.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082659643632,"sku":"2940013225367","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013225367_p0.jpg?v=1763578416","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013225367","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}