{"product_id":"2940013379145","title":"TO HAVE AND TO HOLD","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER I. IN WHICH I THROW AMBS-ACE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER II. IN WHICH I MEET MASTER JEREMY SPARROW\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER III. IN WHICH I MARRY IN HASTE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH I AM LIKE TO REPENT AT LEISURE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER V. IN WHICH A WOMAN HAS HER WAY\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH WE GO TO JAMESTOWN\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH WE PREPARE TO FIGHT THE SPANIARD\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH ENTERS MY LORD CARNAL\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH TWO DRINK OF ONE CUP\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER X. IN WHICH MASTER PORY GAINS TIME TO SOME PURPOSE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH I MEET AN ITALIAN DOCTOR\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XII. IN WHICH I RECEIVE A WARNING AND REPOSE A TRUST\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH THE SANTA TERESA DROPS DOWN-STREAM\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH WE SEEK A LOST LADY\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH WE FIND THE HAUNTED WOOD\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH I AM RID OF AN UNPROFITABLE SERVANT\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH MY LORD AND I PLAY AT BOWLS\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XVIII. IN WHICH WE GO OUT INTO THE NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH WE HAVE UNEXPECTED COMPANY\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XX. IN WHICH WE ARE IN DESPERATE CASE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXI. IN WHICH A GRAVE IS DIGGED\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH I CHANGE MY NAME AND OCCUPATION\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXIII. IN WHICH WE WRITE UPON THE SAND\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXIV. IN WHICH WE CHOOSE THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXV. IN WHICH MY LORD HATH HIS DAY\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH I AM BROUGHT TO TRIAL\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXVII. IN WHICH I FIND AN ADVOCATE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXVIII. IN WHICH THE SPRINGTIME IS AT HAND\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXIX. IN WHICH I KEEP TRYST\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXX. IN WHICH WE START UPON A JOURNEY\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXI. IN WHICH NANTAUQUAS COMES TO OUR RESCUE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXII. IN WHICH WE ARE THE GUESTS OF AN EMPEROR\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXIII. IN WHICH MY FRIEND BECOMES MY FOE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH I COME TO THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXVI. IN WHICH I HEAR ILL NEWS\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXVII. IN WHICH MY LORD AND I PART COMPANY\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXVIII. IN WHICH I GO UPON A QUEST\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER XXXIX. IN WHICH WE LISTEN TO A SONG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO HAVE AND TO HOLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I IN WHICH I THROW AMBS-ACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE work of the day being over, I sat down upon my doorstep, pipe in\u003cbr\u003ehand, to rest awhile in the cool of the evening. Death is not more still\u003cbr\u003ethan is this Virginian land in the hour when the sun has sunk away, and\u003cbr\u003eit is black beneath the trees, and the stars brighten slowly and softly,\u003cbr\u003eone by one. The birds that sing all day have hushed, and the horned\u003cbr\u003eowls, the monster frogs, and that strange and ominous fowl (if fowl it\u003cbr\u003ebe, and not, as some assert, a spirit damned) which we English call the\u003cbr\u003ewhippoorwill, are yet silent. Later the wolf will howl and the panther\u003cbr\u003escream, but now there is no sound. The winds are laid, and the restless\u003cbr\u003eleaves droop and are quiet. The low lap of the water among the reeds is\u003cbr\u003elike the breathing of one who sleeps in his watch beside the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI marked the light die from the broad bosom of the river, leaving it\u003cbr\u003ea dead man's hue. Awhile ago, and for many evenings, it had been\u003cbr\u003ecrimson,--a river of blood. A week before, a great meteor had shot\u003cbr\u003ethrough the night, blood-red and bearded, drawing a slow-fading fiery\u003cbr\u003etrail across the heavens; and the moon had risen that same night\u003cbr\u003eblood-red, and upon its disk there was drawn in shadow a thing most\u003cbr\u003emarvelously like a scalping knife. Wherefore, the following day being\u003cbr\u003eSunday, good Mr. Stockham, our minister at Weyanoke, exhorted us to be\u003cbr\u003eon our guard, and in his prayer besought that no sedition or rebellion\u003cbr\u003emight raise its head amongst the Indian subjects of the Lord's anointed.\u003cbr\u003eAfterward, in the churchyard, between the services, the more timorous\u003cbr\u003ebegan to tell of divers portents which they had observed, and to recount\u003cbr\u003eold tales of how the savages distressed us in the Starving Time. The\u003cbr\u003ebolder spirits laughed them to scorn, but the women began to weep and\u003cbr\u003ecower, and I, though I laughed too, thought of Smith, and how he ever\u003cbr\u003eheld the savages, and more especially that Opechancanough who was now\u003cbr\u003etheir emperor, in a most deep distrust; telling us that the red men\u003cbr\u003ewatched while we slept, that they might teach wiliness to a Jesuit, and\u003cbr\u003ehow to bide its time to a cat crouched before a mousehole. I thought\u003cbr\u003eof the terms we now kept with these heathen; of how they came and went\u003cbr\u003efamiliarly amongst us, spying out our weakness, and losing the salutary\u003cbr\u003eawe which that noblest captain had struck into their souls; of how many\u003cbr\u003ewere employed as hunters to bring down deer for lazy masters; of how,\u003cbr\u003ebreaking the law, and that not secretly, we gave them knives and arms, a\u003cbr\u003esoldier's bread, in exchange for pelts and p","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152636592368,"sku":"2940013379145","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013379145_p0.jpg?v=1763580408","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013379145","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}