{"product_id":"2940013374898","title":"Red Pottage","description":"RED POTTAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                        In tragic life, God wot,\u003cbr\u003e     No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:\u003cbr\u003e     We are betray'd by what is false within.\u003cbr\u003e                                --GEORGE MEREDITH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can't get out,\" said Sterne's starling, looking through the bars of\u003cbr\u003ehis cage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I will get out,\" said Hugh Scarlett to himself, seeing no bars, but\u003cbr\u003ehalf conscious of a cage. \"I will get out,\" he repeated, as his hansom\u003cbr\u003etook him swiftly from the house in Portman Square, where he had been\u003cbr\u003edining, towards that other house in Carlton House Terrace, whither his\u003cbr\u003ethoughts had travelled on before him, out-distancing the\u003cbr\u003e_trip-clip-clop, trip-clip-clop_ of the horse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a hot night in June. Hugh had thrown back his overcoat, and the\u003cbr\u003ethrong of passers-by in the street could see, if they cared to see, \"the\u003cbr\u003eglass of fashion\" in the shape of white waistcoat and shirt front,\u003cbr\u003esurmounted by the handsome, irritated face of their owner, leaning back\u003cbr\u003ewith his hat tilted over his eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Trip-clip-clop_ went the horse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great deal of thinking may be compressed into a quarter of an hour,\u003cbr\u003eespecially if it has been long eluded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I will get out,\" he said again to himself with an impatient movement.\u003cbr\u003eIt was beginning to weary him, this commonplace intrigue which had been\u003cbr\u003eso new and alluring a year ago. He did not own it to himself, but he\u003cbr\u003ewas tired of it. Perhaps the reason why good resolutions have earned for\u003cbr\u003ethemselves such an evil repute as paving-stones is because they are\u003cbr\u003eoften the result, not of repentance, but of the restlessness that dogs\u003cbr\u003ean evaporating pleasure. This liaison had been alternately his pride and\u003cbr\u003ehis shame for many months. But now it was becoming something more--which\u003cbr\u003eit had been all the time, only he had not noticed it till lately--a\u003cbr\u003efetter, a clog, something irksome, to be cast off and pushed out of\u003cbr\u003esight. Decidedly the moment for the good resolution had arrived.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145630859504,"sku":"2940013374898","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013374898_p0.jpg?v=1763580582","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013374898","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}