{"product_id":"2940013365650","title":"Dear Enemy","description":"STONE GATE, WORCESTER,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMASSACHUSETTS,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecember 27.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear Judy:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I\u003cbr\u003eunderstand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the\u003cbr\u003emaking over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that\u003cbr\u003eyou have chosen me to disburse the money? Me--I, Sallie McBride, the\u003cbr\u003ehead of an orphan asylum! My poor people, have you lost your senses, or\u003cbr\u003ehave you become addicted to the use of opium, and is this the raving of\u003cbr\u003etwo fevered imaginations? I am exactly as well fitted to take care of\u003cbr\u003eone hundred children as to become the curator of a zoo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd you offer as bait an interesting Scotch doctor? My dear\u003cbr\u003eJudy,--likewise my dear Jervis,--I see through you! I know exactly\u003cbr\u003ethe kind of family conference that has been held about the Pendleton\u003cbr\u003efireside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Isn't it a pity that Sallie hasn't amounted to more since she left\u003cbr\u003ecollege? She ought to be doing something useful instead of frittering\u003cbr\u003eher time away in the petty social life of Worcester. Also [Jervis\u003cbr\u003espeaks] she is getting interested in that confounded young Hallock, too\u003cbr\u003egood-looking and fascinating and erratic; I never did like politicians.\u003cbr\u003eWe must deflect her mind with some uplifting and absorbing occupation\u003cbr\u003euntil the danger is past. Ha! I have it! We will put her in charge of\u003cbr\u003ethe John Grier Home.\" Oh, I can hear him as clearly as if I were there!\u003cbr\u003eOn the occasion of my last visit in your delectable household Jervis and\u003cbr\u003eI had a very solemn conversation in regard to (1) marriage, (2) the low\u003cbr\u003eideals of politicians, (3) the frivolous, useless lives that society\u003cbr\u003ewomen lead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease tell your moral husband that I took his words deeply to heart,\u003cbr\u003eand that ever since my return to Worcester I have been spending one\u003cbr\u003eafternoon a week reading poetry with the inmates of the Female Inebriate\u003cbr\u003eAsylum. My life is not so purposeless as it appears.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso let me assure you that the politician is not dangerously imminent;\u003cbr\u003eand that, anyway, he is a very desirable politician, even though\u003cbr\u003ehis views on tariff and single tax and trade-unionism do not exactly\u003cbr\u003ecoincide with Jervis's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour desire to dedicate my life to the public good is very sweet, but\u003cbr\u003eyou should look at it from the asylum's point of view.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave you no pity for those poor defenseless little orphan children?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have, if you haven't, and I respectfully decline the position which\u003cbr\u003eyou offer.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147471569136,"sku":"2940013365650","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013365650_p0.jpg?v=1763580281","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013365650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}