{"product_id":"2940013537361","title":"AUNT JANE'S NIECES","description":"A LIST OF CHAPTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       I  BETH RECEIVES AN INVITATION\u003cbr\u003e      II  MOTHER AND DAUGHTER\u003cbr\u003e     III  PATSY\u003cbr\u003e      IV  LOUISE MAKES A DISCOVERY\u003cbr\u003e       V  AUNT JANE\u003cbr\u003e      VI  THE BOY\u003cbr\u003e     VII  THE FIRST WARNING\u003cbr\u003e    VIII  THE DIPLOMAT\u003cbr\u003e      IX  COUSINS\u003cbr\u003e       X  THE MAN WITH THE BUNDLE\u003cbr\u003e      XI  THE MAD GARDENER\u003cbr\u003e     XII  UNCLE JOHN GETS ACQUAINTED\u003cbr\u003e    XIII  THE OTHER NIECE\u003cbr\u003e     XIV  KENNETH IS FRIGHTENED\u003cbr\u003e      XV  PATSY MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT\u003cbr\u003e     XVI  GOOD RESULTS\u003cbr\u003e    XVII  AUNT JANE'S HEIRESS\u003cbr\u003e   XVIII  PATRICIA SPEAKS FRANKLY\u003cbr\u003e     XIX  DUPLICITY\u003cbr\u003e      XX  IN THE GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e     XXI  READING THE WILL\u003cbr\u003e    XXII  JAMES TELLS A STRANGE STORY\u003cbr\u003e   XXIII  PATSY ADOPTS AN UNCLE\u003cbr\u003e    XXIV  HOME AGAIN\u003cbr\u003e     XXV  UNCLE JOHN ACTS QUEERLY\u003cbr\u003e    XXVI  A BUNCH OF KEYS\u003cbr\u003e   XXVII  LOUISE MAKES A DISCOVERY\u003cbr\u003e  XXVIII  PATSY LOSES HER JOB\u003cbr\u003e    XXIX  THE MAJOR DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBETH RECEIVES AN INVITATION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor De Graf was sorting the mail at the breakfast table.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Here's a letter for you, Beth,\" said he, and tossed it across the\u003cbr\u003ecloth to where his daughter sat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe girl raised her eyebrows, expressing surprise. It was something\u003cbr\u003eunusual for her to receive a letter. She picked up the square envelope\u003cbr\u003ebetween a finger and thumb and carefully read the inscription, \"Miss\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth De Graf, Cloverton, Ohio.\" Turning the envelope she found on\u003cbr\u003ethe reverse flap a curious armorial emblem, with the word \"Elmhurst.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen she glanced at her father, her eyes big and somewhat startled\u003cbr\u003ein expression. The Professor was deeply engrossed in a letter from\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Lowenstein which declared that a certain note must be paid at\u003cbr\u003ematurity. His weak, watery blue eyes stared rather blankly from behind\u003cbr\u003ethe gold-rimmed spectacles. His flat nostrils extended and compressed\u003cbr\u003elike those of a frightened horse; and the indecisive mouth was\u003cbr\u003etremulous. At the best the Professor was not an imposing personage.\u003cbr\u003eHe wore a dressing-gown of soiled quilted silk and linen not too\u003cbr\u003eimmaculate; but his little sandy moustache and the goatee that\u003cbr\u003edecorated his receding chin were both carefully waxed into sharp\u003cbr\u003epoints--an indication that he possessed at least one vanity. Three\u003cbr\u003edays in the week he taught vocal and instrumental music to the\u003cbr\u003eambitious young ladies of Cloverton. The other three days he rode to\u003cbr\u003ePelham's Grove, ten miles away, and taught music to all who wished to\u003cbr\u003eacquire that desirable accomplishment. But the towns were small and\u003cbr\u003ethe fees not large, so that Professor De Graf had much difficulty in\u003cbr\u003esecuring an income sufficient for the needs of his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stout, sour-visaged lady who was half-hidden by her newspaper at\u003cbr\u003ethe other end of the table was also a bread-winner, for she taught\u003cbr\u003eembroidery to the women of her acquaintance and made various articles\u003cbr\u003eof fancy-work that were sold at Biggar's Emporium, the largest store\u003cbr\u003ein Cloverton. So, between them, the Professor and Mrs. DeGraf managed\u003cbr\u003eto defray ordinary expenses and keep Elizabeth at school; but there\u003cbr\u003ewere one or two dreadful \"notes\" that were constantly hanging over\u003cbr\u003etheir heads like the sword of Damocles, threatening to ruin them at\u003cbr\u003eany moment their creditors proved obdurate.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179382718704,"sku":"2940013537361","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013537361_p0.jpg?v=1763593563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013537361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}