{"product_id":"2940013537538","title":"AUNT JANE'S NIECES IN SOCIETY","description":"LIST OF CHAPTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I   UNCLE JOHN'S DUTY\u003cbr\u003e   II   A QUESTION OF \"PULL\"\u003cbr\u003e  III   DIANA\u003cbr\u003e   IV   THE THREE NIECES\u003cbr\u003e    V   PREPARING FOR THE PLUNGE\u003cbr\u003e   VI   THE FLY IN THE BROTH\u003cbr\u003e  VII   THE HERO ENTERS AND TROUBLE BEGINS\u003cbr\u003e VIII   OPENING THE CAMPAIGN\u003cbr\u003e   IX   THE VON TAER PEARLS\u003cbr\u003e    X   MISLED\u003cbr\u003e   XI   LIMOUSINE\u003cbr\u003e  XII   FOGERTY\u003cbr\u003e XIII   DIANA REVOLTS\u003cbr\u003e  XIV   A COOL ENCOUNTER\u003cbr\u003e   XV   A BEWILDERING EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003e  XVI   MADAME CERISE, CUSTODIAN\u003cbr\u003e XVII   THE MYSTERY DEEPENS\u003cbr\u003eXVIII   A RIFT IN THE CLOUDS\u003cbr\u003e  XIX   POLITIC REPENTANCE\u003cbr\u003e   XX   A TELEPHONE CALL\u003cbr\u003e  XXI   THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS\u003cbr\u003e XXII   GONE\u003cbr\u003eXXIII   THE CRISIS\u003cbr\u003e XXIV   A MATTER OF COURSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUNCLE JOHN'S DUTY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You're not doing your duty by those girls, John Merrick!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gentleman at whom this assertion was flung in a rather angry tone\u003cbr\u003edid not answer his sister-in-law. He sat gazing reflectively at the\u003cbr\u003epattern in the rug and seemed neither startled nor annoyed. Mrs.\u003cbr\u003eMerrick, a pink-cheeked middle-aged lady attired in an elaborate morning\u003cbr\u003egown, knitted her brows severely as she regarded the chubby little man\u003cbr\u003eopposite; then, suddenly remembering that the wrinkles might leave their\u003cbr\u003edreadful mark on her carefully rolled and massaged features, she\u003cbr\u003ebanished them with a pass of her ringed hand and sighed dismally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It would not have mattered especially had the poor children been left\u003cbr\u003ein their original condition of friendless poverty,\" she said. \"They were\u003cbr\u003ethen like a million other girls, content to struggle for a respectable\u003cbr\u003elivelihood and a doubtful position in the lower stratas of social\u003cbr\u003ecommunion. But you interfered. You came into their lives abruptly,\u003cbr\u003eappearing from those horrid Western wilds with an amazing accumulation\u003cbr\u003eof money and a demand that your three nieces become your special\u003cbr\u003e_protégées_. And what is the result?\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179684741360,"sku":"2940013537538","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013537538_p0.jpg?v=1763582684","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013537538","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}