{"product_id":"2940013253070","title":"THE CHILDREN'S PILGRIMAGE","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"THREE ON A DOORSTEP.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a poor part of London, but not in the very poorest part--two\u003cbr\u003echildren sat on a certain autumn evening, side by side on a doorstep.\u003cbr\u003eThe eldest might have been ten, the youngest eight. The eldest was a\u003cbr\u003egirl, the youngest a boy. Drawn up in front of these children,\u003cbr\u003elooking into their little faces with hungry, loving, pathetic eyes,\u003cbr\u003elay a mongrel dog.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three were alone, for the street in which they sat was a cul-de-sac\u003cbr\u003e--leading nowhere; and at this hour, on this Sunday evening,\u003cbr\u003eseemed quite deserted. The boy and girl were no East End waifs; they\u003cbr\u003ewere clean; they looked respectable; and the doorstep which gave them\u003cbr\u003ea temporary resting-place belonged to no far-famed Stepney or Poplar.\u003cbr\u003eIt stood in a little, old-fashioned, old-world court, back of\u003cbr\u003eBloomsbury. They were a foreign-looking little pair--not in their\u003cbr\u003edress, which was truly English in its clumsiness and want of\u003cbr\u003epicturesque coloring--but their faces were foreign. The contour was\u003cbr\u003epeculiar, the setting of the two pairs of eyes--un-Saxon. They sat\u003cbr\u003every close together, a grave little couple. Presently the girl threw\u003cbr\u003eher arm round the boy's neck, the boy laid his head on her shoulder.\u003cbr\u003eIn this position those who watched could have traced motherly lines\u003cbr\u003eround this little girl's firm mouth. She was a creature to defend and\u003cbr\u003eprotect. The evening fell and the court grew dark, but the boy had\u003cbr\u003efound shelter on her breast, and the dog, coming close, laid his head\u003cbr\u003eon her lap.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079365738736,"sku":"2940013253070","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013253070_p0.jpg?v=1763578823","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013253070","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}