{"product_id":"2940013378919","title":"THE IRON WOMAN","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Climb up in this tree, and play house!\" Elizabeth Ferguson\u003cbr\u003ecommanded. She herself had climbed to the lowest branch of an\u003cbr\u003eapple-tree in the Maitland orchard, and sat there, swinging her\u003cbr\u003ewhite-stockinged legs so recklessly that the three children whom\u003cbr\u003eshe had summoned to her side, backed away for safety. \"If you\u003cbr\u003edon't,\" she said, looking down at them, \"I'm afraid, perhaps,\u003cbr\u003emaybe, I'll get mad.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer foreboding was tempered by a giggle and by the deepening\u003cbr\u003edimple in her cheek, but all the same she sighed with a sort of\u003cbr\u003eimpersonal regret at the prospect of any unpleasantness. \"It\u003cbr\u003ewould be too bad if I got mad, wouldn't it?\" she said\u003cbr\u003ethoughtfully. The others looked at one another in consternation.\u003cbr\u003eThey knew so well what it meant to have Elizabeth \"mad,\" that\u003cbr\u003eNannie Maitland, the oldest of the little group, said at once,\u003cbr\u003ehelplessly, \"Well.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNannie was always helpless with Elizabeth, just as she was\u003cbr\u003ehelpless with her half-brother, Blair, though she was ten and\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth and Blair were only eight; but how could a little girl\u003cbr\u003elike Nannie be anything but helpless before a brother whom she\u003cbr\u003eadored, and a wonderful being like Elizabeth?--Elizabeth! who\u003cbr\u003ealways knew exactly what she wanted to do, and who instantly \"got\u003cbr\u003emad,\" if you wouldn't say you'd do it, too; got mad, and then\u003cbr\u003erepented, and hugged you and kissed you, and actually cried (or\u003cbr\u003egot mad again), if you refused to accept as a sign of your\u003cbr\u003eforgiveness her new slate-pencil, decorated with strips of red-\u003cbr\u003eand-white paper just like a little barber's pole! No wonder\u003cbr\u003eNannie, timid and good-natured, was helpless before such a sweet,\u003cbr\u003efurious little creature! Blair had more backbone than his sister,\u003cbr\u003ebut even he felt Elizabeth's heel upon his neck. David Richie, a\u003cbr\u003esilent, candid, very stubborn small boy, was, after a momentary\u003cbr\u003estruggle, as meek as the rest of them. Now, when she commanded\u003cbr\u003ethem all to climb, it was David who demurred, because, he said,\u003cbr\u003ehe spoke first for Indians tomahawking you in the back parlor.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147525767408,"sku":"2940013378919","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013378919_p0.jpg?v=1763580588","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013378919","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}