{"product_id":"2940013411333","title":"THE PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I MR. AND MRS. BLITHERS DISCUSS MATRIMONY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II TWO COUNTRIES DISCUSS MARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III MR. BLITHERS GOES VISITING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV PROTECTING THE BLOOD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V PRINCE ROBIN is ASKED TO STAND UP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI THE PRINCE AND MR. BLITHERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII A LETTER FROM MAUD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII ON BOARD THE JUPITER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX THE PRINCE MEETS MISS GUILE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X AN HOUR ON DECK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI THE LIEUTENANT RECEIVES ORDERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII THE LIEUTENANT REPORTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII THE RED LETTER B\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV THE CAT IS AWAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV THE MICE IN A TRAP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI THREE MESSAGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVII THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIX \"WHAT WILL MY PEOPLE DO\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XX LOVE IN ABEYANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXI MR. BLITHERS ARRIVES IN GRAUSTARK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XXII A VISIT TO THE CASTLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXIII PINGARI'S\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV JUST WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer eyes were starry bright, her red lips were parted.\u003cbr\u003e_Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You will be her choice,\" said the other, without the quiver of an\u003cbr\u003eeye-lash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I shall pray for continuous rough weather.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dignified Ministry of Graustark sat agape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMR. AND MRS. BLITHERS DISCUSS MATRIMONY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"My dear,\" said Mr. Blithers, with decision,\" you can't tell me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I know I can't,\" said his wife, quite as positively. She knew when\u003cbr\u003eshe could tell him a thing and when she couldn't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was quite impossible to impart information to Mr. Blithers when he\u003cbr\u003ehad the tips of two resolute fingers embedded in his ears. That\u003cbr\u003ehappened to be his customary and rather unfair method of conquering\u003cbr\u003eher when an argument was going against him, not for want of logic on\u003cbr\u003ehis part, but because it was easier to express himself with his ears\u003cbr\u003eclosed than with them open. By this means he effectually shut out the\u003cbr\u003evoice of opposition and had the discussion all to himself. Of course,\u003cbr\u003eit would have been more convincing if he had been permitted to hear\u003cbr\u003ethe sound of his own eloquence; still, it was effective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was sure to go on talking for two or three minutes and then\u003cbr\u003esubside in despair. A woman will not talk to a stone wall. Nor will\u003cbr\u003eshe wantonly allow an argument to die while there remains the\u003cbr\u003eslightest chance of its survival. Given the same situation, a man\u003cbr\u003ewould get up and leave his wife sitting there with her fingers in her\u003cbr\u003eears; and, as he bolted from the room in high dudgeon, he would be\u003cbr\u003emean enough to call attention to her pig-headedness. In most cases, a\u003cbr\u003ewoman is content to listen to a silly argument rather than to leave\u003cbr\u003ethe room just because her husband elects to be childish about a\u003cbr\u003eperfectly simple elucidation of the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Blithers had lived with Mr. Blithers, more or less, for twenty-\u003cbr\u003efive years and she knew him like a book. He was a forceful person who\u003cbr\u003ewould have his own way, even though he had to put his fingers in his\u003cbr\u003eears to get it. At one period of their joint connubial agreement,\u003cbr\u003ewhen he had succeeded in accumulating a pitiful hoard amounting to\u003cbr\u003ebut little more than ten millions of dollars, she concluded to live\u003cbr\u003eabroad for the purpose of educating their daughter, allowing him in\u003cbr\u003ethe meantime to increase his fortune to something like fifty millions\u003cbr\u003ewithout having to worry about household affairs. But she had\u003cbr\u003esojourned with him long enough, at odd times, to realise that, so\u003cbr\u003elong as he lived, he would never run away from an argument--unless,\u003cbr\u003eby some dreadful hook or crook, he should be so unfortunate as to be\u003cbr\u003edeprived of the use of both hands. She found room to gloat, of\u003cbr\u003ecourse, in the fact that he was obliged to stop up his ears in order\u003cbr\u003eto shut out the incontrovertible.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145746989296,"sku":"2940013411333","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013411333_p0.jpg?v=1763946503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013411333","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}