{"product_id":"2940013564985","title":"Lost Lenore Volume I","description":"FAMILY AFFAIRS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first important event of my life transpired on the 22nd May, 1831.\u003cbr\u003eOn that day I was born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSix weeks after, another event occurred which no doubt exerted an\u003cbr\u003einfluence over my destiny: I was christened Rowland Stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom what I have read of ancient history--principally as given by the\u003cbr\u003eJews--I have reason to think, that I am descended from an old and\u003cbr\u003eillustrious family.  No one can refute the evidence I have for believing\u003cbr\u003ethat some of my ancestors were in existence many hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe simple fact that I am in existence now is sufficient proof that my\u003cbr\u003efamily is of a descent, ancient and noble, as that of any other on\u003cbr\u003eearth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps there is no family, in its wanderings and struggles towards\u003cbr\u003eremotest posterity, that has not experienced every vicissitude of\u003cbr\u003efortune; sometimes standing in the ranks of the great; and in the lapse\u003cbr\u003eof ages descending to the lower strata of the social scale, and there\u003cbr\u003ebecoming historically lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have not yet found it recorded, that any individual of the family to\u003cbr\u003ewhich I belong ever held a very high position--not, in fact, since one\u003cbr\u003eof them named Noah constructed a peculiar kind of sailing craft, of\u003cbr\u003ewhich he was full owner, and captain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was my misfortune to be brought into existence at a period of the\u003cbr\u003eworld's history, when my father would be thought by many to be a man in\u003cbr\u003e\"humble circumstances of life.\"  He used to earn an honest living by\u003cbr\u003ehard work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was a saddle and harness-maker in an obscure street in the city of\u003cbr\u003eDublin, and his name was William Stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen memory dwells on my father, pride swells up in my soul: for he was\u003cbr\u003ean honest, temperate, and industrious man, and was very kind to my\u003cbr\u003emother and his children.  I should be an unworthy son, not to feel pride\u003cbr\u003eat the remembrance of such a father!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was nothing very remarkable in the character of my mother.  I used\u003cbr\u003eto think different once, but that was before I had arrived at the age of\u003cbr\u003ereason.  I used to think that she delighted to thwart my childish\u003cbr\u003einclinations--more than was necessary for her own happiness or mine.\u003cbr\u003eBut this was probably a fault of my wayward fancy.  I am willing to\u003cbr\u003ethink so now.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079586070768,"sku":"2940013564985","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013564985_p0.jpg?v=1763582808","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013564985","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}