{"product_id":"2940013527942","title":"SARA CREWE","description":"In the first place, Miss Minchin lived in London. Her home was a large,\u003cbr\u003edull, tall one, in a large, dull square, where all the houses were\u003cbr\u003ealike, and all the sparrows were alike, and where all the door-knockers\u003cbr\u003emade the same heavy sound, and on still days--and nearly all the days\u003cbr\u003ewere still--seemed to resound through the entire row in which the knock\u003cbr\u003ewas knocked. On Miss Minchin's door there was a brass plate. On the\u003cbr\u003ebrass plate there was inscribed in black letters,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e              +----------------------------------------+\u003cbr\u003e              |                                        |\u003cbr\u003e              |             MISS MINCHIN'S             |\u003cbr\u003e              |                                        |\u003cbr\u003e              |   SELECT SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES.    |\u003cbr\u003e              |                                        |\u003cbr\u003e              +----------------------------------------+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLittle Sara Crewe never went in or out of the house without reading\u003cbr\u003ethat door-plate and reflecting upon it. By the time she was twelve, she\u003cbr\u003ehad decided that all her trouble arose because, in the first place, she\u003cbr\u003ewas not \"Select,\" and in the second, she was not a \"Young Lady.\" When\u003cbr\u003eshe was eight years old, she had been brought to Miss Minchin as a\u003cbr\u003epupil, and left with her. Her papa had brought her all the way from\u003cbr\u003eIndia. Her mamma had died when she was a baby, and her papa had kept her\u003cbr\u003ewith him as long as he could. And then, finding the hot climate was\u003cbr\u003emaking her very delicate, he had brought her to England and left her\u003cbr\u003ewith Miss Minchin, to be part of the Select Seminary for Young Ladies.\u003cbr\u003eSara, who had always been a sharp little child, who remembered things,\u003cbr\u003erecollected hearing him say that he had not a relative in the world whom\u003cbr\u003ehe knew of, and so he was obliged to place her at a boarding-school, and\u003cbr\u003ehe had heard Miss Minchin's establishment spoken of very highly. The\u003cbr\u003esame day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful\u003cbr\u003eclothes--clothes so grand and rich that only a very young and\u003cbr\u003einexperienced man would have bought them for a mite of a child who was\u003cbr\u003eto be brought up in a boarding-school. But the fact was that he was a\u003cbr\u003erash, innocent young man, and very sad at the thought of parting with\u003cbr\u003ehis little girl, who was all he had left to remind him of her beautiful\u003cbr\u003emother, whom he had dearly loved. And he wished her to have everything\u003cbr\u003ethe most fortunate little girl could have; and so, when the polite\u003cbr\u003esaleswomen in the shops said, \"Here is our very latest thing in hats,\u003cbr\u003ethe plumes are exactly the same as those we sold to Lady Diana Sinclair\u003cbr\u003eyesterday,\" he immediately bought what was offered to him, and paid\u003cbr\u003ewhatever was asked. The consequence was that Sara had a most\u003cbr\u003eextraordinary wardrobe. Her dresses were silk and velvet and India\u003cbr\u003ecashmere, her hats and bonnets were covered with bows and plumes, her\u003cbr\u003esmall undergarments were adorned with real lace, and she returned in the\u003cbr\u003ecab to Miss Minchin's with a doll almost as large as herself, dressed\u003cbr\u003equite as grandly as herself, too.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165237133552,"sku":"2940013527942","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013527942_p0.jpg?v=1763582025","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013527942","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}