{"product_id":"2940013415850","title":"LIFE AND GABRIELLA","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK FIRST--THE AGE OF FAITH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                              PAGE\u003cbr\u003e     I. Presents a Shameless Heroine    3\u003cbr\u003e    II. Poor Jane                      30\u003cbr\u003e   III. A Start in Life                61\u003cbr\u003e    IV. Mirage                         90\u003cbr\u003e     V. The New World                 122\u003cbr\u003e    VI. The Old Serpent               148\u003cbr\u003e   VII. Motherhood                    176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK SECOND--THE AGE OF KNOWLEDGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. Disenchantment.               211\u003cbr\u003e    II. A Second Start in Life        241\u003cbr\u003e   III. Work                          274\u003cbr\u003e    IV. The Dream and the Years       300\u003cbr\u003e     V. Success                       331\u003cbr\u003e    VI. Discoveries                   368\u003cbr\u003e   VII. Readjustments                 406\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. The Test                      444\u003cbr\u003e    IX. The Past                      476\u003cbr\u003e     X. Dream and the Reality         501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK FIRST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE AGE OF FAITH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRESENTS A SHAMELESS HEROINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw\u003cbr\u003ea golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour. On the\u003cbr\u003ewindow-sill, midway between the white curtains, a pot of blue hyacinths\u003cbr\u003estood in a cracked china plate, and as the sunlight shone into the room,\u003cbr\u003ethe scent of the blossoms floated to the corner where Gabriella was\u003cbr\u003epatiently pulling basting threads out of the hem of a skirt. For a\u003cbr\u003eminute her capable hands stopped at their work, and raising her smooth\u003cbr\u003edark head she looked compassionately at her sister Jane, who was\u003cbr\u003esitting, like a frozen image of martyrdom, in the middle of the long\u003cbr\u003ehorsehair sofa. Three times within the last twelve months Jane had fled\u003cbr\u003efrom her husband's roof to the protection of her widowed mother, a weak\u003cbr\u003eperson of excellent ancestry, who could hardly have protected a sparrow\u003cbr\u003ehad one taken refuge beneath her skirt. Twice before Mrs. Carr had wept\u003cbr\u003eover her daughter's woes and returned her, a sullen saint, to the arms\u003cbr\u003eof the discreetly repentant Charley; but to-day, while the four older\u003cbr\u003echildren were bribed to good behaviour with bread and damson preserves\u003cbr\u003ein the pantry, and the baby was contentedly playing with his rubber ring\u003cbr\u003ein his mother's arms, Gabriella had passionately declared that \"Jane\u003cbr\u003emust never, never go back!\" Nothing so dreadful as this had ever\u003cbr\u003ehappened before, for the repentant Charley had been discovered making\u003cbr\u003elove to his wife's dressmaker, a pretty French girl whom Jane had\u003cbr\u003eengaged for her spring sewing because she had more \"style\" than had\u003cbr\u003efallen to the austerely virtuous lot of the Carr's regular seamstress,\u003cbr\u003eMiss Folly Hatch. \"I might have known she was too pretty to be good,\"\u003cbr\u003emoaned Jane, while Mrs. Carr, in her willow rocking-chair by the window,\u003cbr\u003ewiped her reddened eyelids on the strip of cambric ruffling she was\u003cbr\u003ehemming.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082832462064,"sku":"2940013415850","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013415850_p0.jpg?v=1763581038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013415850","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}