{"product_id":"2940013415669","title":"HIS FAMILY","description":"HIS FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was thinking of the town he had known. Not of _old_ New York--he had\u003cbr\u003eheard of that from old, old men when he himself had still been young and\u003cbr\u003ehad smiled at their garrulity. He was thinking of a _young_ New York, the\u003cbr\u003emighty throbbing city to which he had come long ago as a lad from the New\u003cbr\u003eHampshire mountains. A place of turbulent thoroughfares, of shouting\u003cbr\u003edrivers, hurrying crowds, the crack of whips and the clatter of wheels; an\u003cbr\u003euproarious, thrilling town of enterprise, adventure, youth; a city of\u003cbr\u003epulsing energies, the center of a boundless land; a port of commerce with\u003cbr\u003eall the world, of stately ships with snowy sails; a fascinating pleasure\u003cbr\u003etown, with throngs of eager travellers hurrying from the ferry boats and\u003cbr\u003erolling off in hansom cabs to the huge hotels on Madison Square. A city\u003cbr\u003ewhere American faces were still to be seen upon all its streets, a cleaner\u003cbr\u003eand a kindlier town, with more courtesy in its life, less of the vulgar\u003cbr\u003escramble. A city of houses, separate homes, of quiet streets with rustling\u003cbr\u003etrees, with people on the doorsteps upon warm summer evenings and groups of\u003cbr\u003eyoungsters singing as they came trooping by in the dark. A place of music\u003cbr\u003eand romance. At the old opera house downtown, on those dazzling evenings\u003cbr\u003ewhen as a boy he had ushered there for the sake of hearing the music, how\u003cbr\u003ethe rich joy of being alive, of being young, of being loved, had shone out\u003cbr\u003eof women's eyes. Shimmering satins, dainty gloves and little jewelled\u003cbr\u003eslippers, shapely arms and shoulders, vivacious movements, nods and smiles,\u003cbr\u003eswift glances, ripples, bursts of laughter, an exciting hum of voices.\u003cbr\u003eThen silence, sudden darkness--and music, and the curtain. The great wide\u003cbr\u003ecurtain slowly rising....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut all that had passed away.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082794877168,"sku":"2940013415669","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013415669_p0.jpg?v=1763581137","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013415669","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}