{"product_id":"2940013580213","title":"The Child Wife","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ISLE OF PEACE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAquidnec--\"Isle of Peace!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOh, Coddington, and ye Assistants of the General Court! what craze\u003cbr\u003epossessed you to change this fair title of the red aboriginal for the\u003cbr\u003epetty appellation of \"Rhodes?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut upon your taste--your classic affectation!  Out upon your\u003cbr\u003eignorance--to mistake the \"Roodt\" of the old Dutch navigator for that\u003cbr\u003ename appertaining to the country of the Colossus!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the title bestowed by Block there was at least appropriateness--even\u003cbr\u003esomething of poetry.  Sailing around Sachuest Point, he beheld the grand\u003cbr\u003ewoods, red in the golden sun-glow of autumn.  Flashed upon his delighted\u003cbr\u003eeyes the crimson masses of tree foliage, and the festoonery of scarlet\u003cbr\u003ecreepers.  Before his face were bright ochreous rocks cropping out from\u003cbr\u003ethe cliff.  Down in his log-book went the \"Red Island!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOh, worthy Coddington, why did you reject the appellation of the Indian?\u003cbr\u003eOr why decree such clumsy transformation to that of the daring\u003cbr\u003eDutchman?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI shall cling to the old title--\"Isle of Peace\"; though in later times\u003cbr\u003eless apt than when the Warapanoag bathed his bronzed limbs in the\u003cbr\u003etranquil waters of the Narraganset, and paddled his light canoe around\u003cbr\u003eits rock-girt shores.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince then, Aquidnec! too often hast thou felt the sore scathing of war.\u003cbr\u003eWhere now thy virgin woods that rejoiced the eyes of Verrazano, fresh\u003cbr\u003efrom Tuscan scenes?  Where thy grand oaks elms, and maples?  Thy green\u003cbr\u003epines and red cedars?  Thy birches that gave bark, thy chestnuts\u003cbr\u003eaffording food; thy sassafras laurel, restorer of health and life?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGone--all gone!  Swept away by the torch and axe of the ruthless\u003cbr\u003esoldier-destroyer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite thy despoliation, Aquidnec, thou art still a fair spot.  Once\u003cbr\u003emore the Isle of Peace, the abode of Love--its very Agapemone; every\u003cbr\u003einch of thy turf trodden by lovers' feet--every ledge of thy cliffs\u003cbr\u003elistening to the old, old story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewport, in the year of our Lord 18--, in the \"height of the season.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn apartment in that most hospitable of American hostelries, the Ocean\u003cbr\u003eHouse, with a window looking westward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the _troisieme etage_, commanding a continuous balcony, with a view\u003cbr\u003eof the Atlantic, spreading broad and blue, beyond the range of the\u003cbr\u003etelescope.  Sachuest Point on the left, with the spray, like snowflakes,\u003cbr\u003ebreaking over the Cormorant Rock; on the right, Beaver Tail, with its\u003cbr\u003ebeacon; between them a fleet of fishing-craft, dipping for striped-bass\u003cbr\u003eand tautog; in the far offing the spread sails of a full-rigged ship,\u003cbr\u003eand the plume-like smoke soaring up from a steamer--both broadside to\u003cbr\u003ethe beholder, on their way between the two great seaports of Shawmut and\u003cbr\u003eManhattan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA noble view is this opening of the great estuary of Narraganset--one\u003cbr\u003eupon which beautiful eyes have often rested.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164810232048,"sku":"2940013580213","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013580213_p0.jpg?v=1763582587","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013580213","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}