{"product_id":"2940013225503","title":"KATE'S ORDEAL","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   THE MESSAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   DID SHE FORGET?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IN LONDON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   THE LOST PURSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   A DISCLOSURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   AT THE THEATRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MESSAGE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Do you think Katie Haydon is pretty--I don't?\" and the speaker glanced\u003cbr\u003eat her own bright curls as she spoke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, I don't know whether she is exactly pretty, but she always looks\u003cbr\u003enice, and then she is so pleasant and merry, and----\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And so vain and stuck-up,\" put in the first speaker again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, how can you say so?\" said another, a plain, quiet-looking girl,\u003cbr\u003ewho had not spoken before.  \"Mother says she would make such a nice\u003cbr\u003enurse-maid; so quiet and bright as she is, children would be sure to\u003cbr\u003etake to her.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, I don't know so much about that, Mary, but I know she has asked\u003cbr\u003eteacher about a situation--her mother wants her to go into the nursery.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"My mother wants me to do the same,\" said quiet Mary Green, \"but\u003cbr\u003ealthough I have spoken to teacher I do not expect to hear of anything\u003cbr\u003euntil Katie is suited, for she asked first, and people are sure to\u003cbr\u003echoose her in preference to me.\"  This was said without the least touch\u003cbr\u003eof envy or jealousy.  Before anyone could reply to it, Katie herself\u003cbr\u003ejoined the group.  \"Are we not late?\" she said, breathless with her run\u003cbr\u003eto catch them before they reached the school.  \"I have some news for\u003cbr\u003eyou.  What do you think--I am going to London!\" she panted, fanning\u003cbr\u003eherself with her pocket-handkerchief, and casting a triumphant glance\u003cbr\u003eat Esther Odell, the girl who had called her proud and stuck-up.\u003cbr\u003eEsther was always talking about going to London, and saying disparaging\u003cbr\u003ethings of going to service--servants were vulgar and despised and she\u003cbr\u003enever would be a servant, though her mother and father both said she\u003cbr\u003eought to get a situation.  This was how Esther had talked, and it gave\u003cbr\u003eKate Haydon no small pleasure to be able to come and tell her\u003cbr\u003eschoolfellow that she was going to the wonderful city first.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082350543088,"sku":"2940013225503","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013225503_p0.jpg?v=1763578155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013225503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}