{"product_id":"2940013613171","title":"MOLLY BROWN OF KENTUCKY","description":"CHAPTER                               PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I  A LETTER                        5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II  THE ORCHARD HOME               19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III  KENT BROWN                     37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV  AFTERNOON TEA                  51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V  LETTERS FROM PARIS AND BERLIN  61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI  AT THE TRICOTS'                80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII  A MOTHER'S FAITH               99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII  DES HALLES                    112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IX  THE AMERICAN MAIL             123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        X  THE ZEPPELIN RAID             132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XI  \"L'HIRONDELLE DE MER\"         138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XII  TUTNO                         147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIII  THE \"SIGNY\"                   160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIV  THE CABLEGRAM                 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XV  WELLINGTON AGAIN              185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XVI  IRISHMAN'S CURTAINS           200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVII  HEROES AND HERO WORSHIPERS    221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVIII  CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE       246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIX  WASTED DYE                    263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XX  A WAR BRIDE                   270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XXI  THE FLIGHT                    283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXII  THE WEDDING BREAKFAST         296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIII  THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER      304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMolly Brown of Kentucky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA LETTER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Miss Julia Kean to Mrs. Edwin Green.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                            Giverny, France,\u003cbr\u003e                                                 August, 1914.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDearest old Molly Brown of Kentucky:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou can marry a million Professor Edwin Greens, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., L.D.\u003cbr\u003e(the last stands for lucky dog), and you can also have a million little\u003cbr\u003eGreen Olive Branches, but you will still be Molly Brown of Kentucky to\u003cbr\u003eall of your old friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI came up to Giverny last week with the Polly Perkinses. They are great\u003cbr\u003efun and, strange to say, get on rather better than most married folks.\u003cbr\u003eJo is much meeker than we ever thought she could be, now that she has\u003cbr\u003emade Polly cut his hair and has let her own grow out. Polly is more\u003cbr\u003emanly, too, I think and asserts himself occasionally, much to Jo's\u003cbr\u003edelight. I should not be at all astonished if his falsetto voice turned\u003cbr\u003einto a baritone, if not a deep bass. He walks with quite a swagger and\u003cbr\u003etalks about my wife this and my wife that in such masculine pride that\u003cbr\u003eyou would not know him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis was rather excited when we came through last week. I have been at\u003cbr\u003eQuimperle all summer and only stopped in Paris long enough to get some\u003cbr\u003epaints and canvas. I had actually painted out. Jo had written me to join\u003cbr\u003eher in this little housekeeping scheme at Giverny. I wish you could see\u003cbr\u003ethe house we have taken. It is too wonderful that it is ours! Such peace\u003cbr\u003eand quiet! Especially so, after the turmoil in Paris. I have seen so few\u003cbr\u003epapers that I hardly know what it is all about; no doubt you in Kentucky\u003cbr\u003ewith your _Courier Journal_ know more than I do. They talk of war, but\u003cbr\u003eof course that is nonsense. Anyhow, if there is a war, I bet I am going\u003cbr\u003eto be Johnny on the Spot. But of course there won't be one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI miss Kent,--but I need hardly tell you that. I almost gave in and\u003cbr\u003esailed with him, but it was much best for me to wait in France for my\u003cbr\u003emother and father. They are now in Berlin waiting for the powers that be\u003cbr\u003eto give some kind of a permit for some kind of a road that Bobby is to\u003cbr\u003ebuild from Constantinople to the interior; that is, he is to build it if\u003cbr\u003ehe can get the permission of the Imperial Government. What the Germans\u003cbr\u003ehave to do with Turkey, you can search me, but that is what Bobby writes\u003cbr\u003eme. He has done a lot of work on it already in the way of preliminary\u003cbr\u003eplans. I am to hang around until I hear from them, so I am going to hang\u003cbr\u003earound with the Polly Perkinses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo doubt Kent is home by this time. I envy him, somehow. It is so\u003cbr\u003ewonderful to have a home to go to. Now isn't that a silly line of talk\u003cbr\u003efor Judy Kean to be getting off, I, who have always declared that a\u003cbr\u003eGypsy van was my idea of bliss? I never have had a home and I never\u003cbr\u003ehave wanted one until lately. I fancy that winter in Paris with your\u003cbr\u003emother in the Rue Brea was my undoing. Of course, if Bobby had been\u003cbr\u003eanything but a civil engineer and Mamma had been anything but so much\u003cbr\u003emarried to Bobby that she had to trot around with him from one end of\u003cbr\u003ethe earth to the other, why then, I might have had a home. But Bobby is\u003cbr\u003eBobby and he wouldn't have been himself doing anything but building\u003cbr\u003eroads, and I certainly would not have had Mamma let him build them all\u003cbr\u003eby his lonesome. The truth of the matter is, I was a mistake. I\u003cbr\u003eshould either never have been born or I should have been born a boy.\u003cbr\u003eGeewhillikins!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147589763312,"sku":"2940013613171","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013613171_p0.jpg?v=1763595389","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013613171","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}