{"product_id":"2940013480667","title":"WE AND THE WORLD PART II","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"A friend in need is a friend indeed.\"--_Old Proverb_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have often thought that the biggest bit of good luck (and I was\u003cbr\u003elucky), which befell me on my outset into the world, was that the man I\u003cbr\u003esat next to in the railway carriage was not a rogue. I travelled third\u003cbr\u003eclass to Liverpool for more than one reason--it was the cheapest way,\u003cbr\u003ebesides which I did not wish to meet any family friends--and the man I\u003cbr\u003espeak of was a third-class passenger, and he went to Liverpool too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the time I was puzzled to think how he came to guess that I was\u003cbr\u003erunning away, that I had money with me, and that I had never been to\u003cbr\u003eLiverpool before; but I can well imagine now how my ignorance and\u003cbr\u003eanxiety must have betrayed themselves at every station I mistook for the\u003cbr\u003eend of my journey, and with every question which I put, as I flattered\u003cbr\u003emyself, in the careless tones of common conversation, I really wonder I\u003cbr\u003ehad not thought beforehand about my clothes, which fitted very badly on\u003cbr\u003ethe character I assumed, and the company I chose; but it was not perhaps\u003cbr\u003eto be expected that I should know then, as I know now, how conspicuous\u003cbr\u003eall over me must have been the absence of those outward signs of\u003cbr\u003ehardship and poverty, which they who know poverty and hardship know so\u003cbr\u003ewell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI wish _I_ had known them, because then I should have given the man some\u003cbr\u003eof my money when we parted, instead of feeling too delicate to do so. I\u003cbr\u003ecan remember his face too well not to know now how much he must have\u003cbr\u003eneeded it, and how heroic a virtue honesty must have been in him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt did not seem to strike him as at all strange or unnatural that a lad\u003cbr\u003eof my age should be seeking his own fortune, but I feel sure that he\u003cbr\u003ethought it was misconduct on my part which had made me run away from\u003cbr\u003ehome. I had no grievance to describe which he could recognize as\u003cbr\u003egrievous enough to drive me out into the world. However, I felt very\u003cbr\u003eglad that he saw no impossibility in my earning my own livelihood, or\u003cbr\u003eeven anything very unusual in my situation.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070027546864,"sku":"2940013480667","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013480667","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}