{"product_id":"2940013415027","title":"CHRISTOPHER AND COLUMBUS","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir names were really Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas; but they decided,\u003cbr\u003eas they sat huddled together in a corner of the second-class deck of the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican liner _St. Luke_, and watched the dirty water of the Mersey\u003cbr\u003eslipping past and the Liverpool landing-stage disappearing into mist,\u003cbr\u003eand felt that it was comfortless and cold, and knew they hadn't got a\u003cbr\u003efather or a mother, and remembered that they were aliens, and realized\u003cbr\u003ethat in front of them lay a great deal of gray, uneasy, dreadfully wet\u003cbr\u003esea, endless stretches of it, days and days of it, with waves on top of\u003cbr\u003eit to make them sick and submarines beneath it to kill them if they\u003cbr\u003ecould, and knew that they hadn't the remotest idea, not the very\u003cbr\u003eremotest, what was before them when and if they did get across to the\u003cbr\u003eother side, and knew that they were refugees, castaways, derelicts, two\u003cbr\u003ewretched little Germans who were neither really Germans nor really\u003cbr\u003eEnglish because they so unfortunately, so complicatedly were both,--they\u003cbr\u003edecided, looking very calm and determined and sitting very close\u003cbr\u003etogether beneath the rug their English aunt had given them to put round\u003cbr\u003etheir miserable alien legs, that what they really were, were Christopher\u003cbr\u003eand Columbus, because they were setting out to discover a New World.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's very pleasant,\" said Anna-Rose. \"It's very pleasant to go and\u003cbr\u003ediscover America. All for ourselves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was Anna-Rosa who suggested their being Christopher and Columbus. She\u003cbr\u003ewas the elder by twenty minutes. Both had had their seventeenth\u003cbr\u003ebirthday--and what a birthday: no cake, no candles, no kisses and\u003cbr\u003ewreaths and home-made poems; but then, as Anna-Felicitas pointed out, to\u003cbr\u003ecomfort Anna-Rose who was taking it hard, you can't get blood out of an\u003cbr\u003eaunt--only a month before. Both were very German outside and very\u003cbr\u003eEnglish inside. Both had fair hair, and the sorts of chins Germans have,\u003cbr\u003eand eyes the colour of the sky in August along the shores of the Baltic.\u003cbr\u003eTheir noses were brief, and had been objected to in Germany, where, if\u003cbr\u003eyou are a Junker's daughter, you are expected to show it in your nose.\u003cbr\u003eAnna-Rose had a tight little body, inclined to the round.\u003cbr\u003eAnna-Felicitas, in spite of being a twin, seemed to have made the most\u003cbr\u003eof her twenty extra minutes to grow more in; anyhow she was tall and\u003cbr\u003ethin, and she drooped; and having perhaps grown quicker made her eyes\u003cbr\u003emore dreamy, and her thoughts more slow. And both held their heads up\u003cbr\u003ewith a great air of calm whenever anybody on the ship looked at them, as\u003cbr\u003ewho should say serenely, \"We're _thoroughly_ happy, and having the time\u003cbr\u003eof our lives.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082794254576,"sku":"2940013415027","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013415027","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}