{"product_id":"2940013564756","title":"Afloat in the Forest","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BROTHERS AT HOME.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty years ago, not twenty miles from the Land's End, there lived a\u003cbr\u003eCornish gentleman named Trevannion.  Just twenty years ago he died,\u003cbr\u003eleaving to lament him a brace of noble boys, whose mother all three had\u003cbr\u003emourned, with like profound sorrow, but a short while before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Squire\" Trevannion, as he was called, died in his own house, where his\u003cbr\u003eancestors for hundreds of years before him had dispensed hospitality.\u003cbr\u003eNone of them, however, had entertained so profusely as he; or rather\u003cbr\u003eimprovidently, it might be said, since in less than three months after\u003cbr\u003ehis death the old family mansion, with the broad acres appertaining to\u003cbr\u003eit, passed into the hands of an alien, leaving his two sons, Ralph and\u003cbr\u003eRichard, landless, houseless, and almost powerless.  One thousand pounds\u003cbr\u003eapiece was all that remained to them out of the wreck of the patrimonial\u003cbr\u003eestates.  It was whispered that even this much was not in reality\u003cbr\u003etheirs, but had been given to them by the _very respectable_ solicitor\u003cbr\u003ewho had managed their father's affairs, and had furthermore _managed_ to\u003cbr\u003esucceed him in the ownership of a property worth a rental of three\u003cbr\u003ethousand a year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAny one knowing the conditions under which the young Trevannions\u003cbr\u003ereceived their two thousand pounds must have believed it to be a gift,\u003cbr\u003esince it was handed over to them by the family solicitor with the\u003cbr\u003eprivate understanding that they were to use it in pushing their fortunes\u003cbr\u003eelsewhere,--anywhere except in Cornwall!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079579877616,"sku":"2940013564756","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013564756_p0.jpg?v=1763582819","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013564756","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}