{"product_id":"2940013365841","title":"GENTLE JULIA","description":"GENTLE JULIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuperciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the\u003cbr\u003ehabit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently\u003cbr\u003eprojected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go\u003cbr\u003ethrough life looking like the King of Spain. This was once foretold as a\u003cbr\u003eprobable culmination of Florence Atwater's still plastic profile, if\u003cbr\u003eFlorence didn't change her way of thinking; and upon Florence's\u003cbr\u003eremarking dreamily that the King of Spain was an awf'ly han'some man,\u003cbr\u003eher mother retorted: \"But not for a girl!\" She meant, of course, that a\u003cbr\u003egirl who looked too much like the King of Spain would not be handsome,\u003cbr\u003ebut her daughter decided to misunderstand her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why, mamma, he's my Very Ideal! I'd marry him to-morrow!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Atwater paused in her darning, and let the stocking collapse\u003cbr\u003eflaccidly into the work-basket in her lap. \"Not at barely thirteen,\u003cbr\u003ewould you?\" she said. \"It seems to me you're just a shade too young to\u003cbr\u003ebe marrying a man who's already got a wife and several children. Where\u003cbr\u003edid you pick up that 'I'd-marry-him-to-morrow,' Florence?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, I hear that everywhere!\" returned the damsel, lightly. \"Everybody\u003cbr\u003esays things like that. I heard Aunt Julia say it. I heard Kitty Silver\u003cbr\u003esay it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"About the King of Spain?\" Mrs. Atwater inquired.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don't know who they were saying it about,\" said Florence, \"but they\u003cbr\u003ewere saying it. I don't mean they were saying it together; I heard one\u003cbr\u003esay it one time and the other say it some other time. I think Kitty\u003cbr\u003eSilver was saying it about some coloured man. She proba'ly wouldn't want\u003cbr\u003eto marry any white man; at least I don't expect she would. She's _been_\u003cbr\u003emarried to a couple of coloured men, anyhow; and she was married twice\u003cbr\u003eto one of 'em, and the other one died in between. Anyhow, that's what\u003cbr\u003eshe told me. She weighed over two hunderd pounds the first time she was\u003cbr\u003emarried, and she weighed over two hunderd-and-seventy the last time she\u003cbr\u003ewas married to the first one over again, but she says she don't know\u003cbr\u003ehow much she weighed when she was married to the one in between. She\u003cbr\u003esays she never got weighed all the time she was married to that one. Did\u003cbr\u003eKitty Silver ever tell you that, mamma?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, often!\" Mrs. Atwater replied. \"I don't think it's very\u003cbr\u003eentertaining; and it's not what we were talking about. I was trying to\u003cbr\u003etell you----\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I know,\" Florence interrupted. \"You said I'd get my face so's my\u003cbr\u003eunderlip wouldn't go back where it ought to, if I didn't quit turning up\u003cbr\u003emy nose at people I think are beneath contemp'. I guess the best thing\u003cbr\u003ewould be to just feel that way without letting on by my face, and then\u003cbr\u003ethere wouldn't be any danger.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No,\" said Mrs. Atwater. \"That's not what I meant. You mustn't let your\u003cbr\u003efeelings get _their_ nose turned up, or their underlip out, either,\u003cbr\u003ebecause feelings can grow warped just as well as----\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut her remarks had already caused her daughter to follow a trail of\u003cbr\u003ethought divergent from the main road along which the mother feebly\u003cbr\u003estruggled to progress. \"Mamma,\" said Florence, \"do you b'lieve it's true\u003cbr\u003eif a person swallows an apple-seed or a lemon-seed or a watermelon-seed,\u003cbr\u003ef'r instance, do you think they'd have a tree grow up inside of 'em?\u003cbr\u003eHenry Rooter said it would, yesterday.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Atwater looked a little anxious. \"Did you swallow some sort of\u003cbr\u003eseed?\" she asked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It was only some grape-seeds, mamma; and you needn't think I got to\u003cbr\u003etake anything for it, because I've swallowed a million, I guess, in my\u003cbr\u003etime!\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147521835248,"sku":"2940013365841","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013365841_p0.jpg?v=1763591514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013365841","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}