{"product_id":"2940013290327","title":"Dorothy's Double Part I","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA slatternly woman was standing at the entrance of a narrow court in one\u003cbr\u003eof the worst parts of Chelsea. She was talking to a neighbour belonging\u003cbr\u003eto the next court, who had paused for a moment for a gossip in her\u003cbr\u003epassage towards a public-house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Your Sal is certainly an owdacious one,' she said. 'I saw her yesterday\u003cbr\u003eevening when you were out looking for her. I told her she would get it\u003cbr\u003ehot if she didn't get back home as soon as she could, and she jest\u003cbr\u003elaughed in my face and said I had best mind my own business. I told her\u003cbr\u003eI would slap her face if she cheeked me, and she said, \"I ain't your\u003cbr\u003ehusband, Mrs. Bell, and if you were to try it on you would find that I\u003cbr\u003ecould slap quite as hard as you can.\"'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'She is getting quite beyond me, Mrs. Bell. I don't know what to do with\u003cbr\u003eher. I have thrashed her as long as I could stand over her, but what is\u003cbr\u003ethe good? The first time the door is open she just takes her hook and I\u003cbr\u003edon't see her again for days. I believe she sleeps in the Park, and I\u003cbr\u003esuppose she either begs or steals to keep herself. At the end of a week\u003cbr\u003emaybe she will come in again, just the same as if she had only been out\u003cbr\u003efor an hour. \"How have you been getting on since I have been away?\" she\u003cbr\u003ewill say. \"No one to scrub your floor; no one to help you when you are\u003cbr\u003etoo drunk to find your bed,\" and then she laughs fit to make yer blood\u003cbr\u003erun cold. Owdacious ain't no name for that wench, Mrs. Bell. Why, there\u003cbr\u003eain't a boy in this court of her own size as ain't afraid of her. She is\u003cbr\u003ea regular tiger-cat, she is; and if they says anything to her, she just\u003cbr\u003egoes for them tooth and nail. I shan't be able to put up with her ways\u003cbr\u003emuch longer. Well, yes; I don't mind if I do take a two of gin with\u003cbr\u003eyou.'","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172053369072,"sku":"2940013290327","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013290327_p0.jpg?v=1763579260","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013290327","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}