{"product_id":"2940013655430","title":"THE INCOMPLETE AMORIST","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I.      THE GIRL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I.      The Inevitable\u003cbr\u003eChapter II.     The Irresistible\u003cbr\u003eChapter III.    Voluntary\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV.     Involuntary\u003cbr\u003eChapter V.      The Prisoner\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI.     The Criminal\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII.    The Escape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK II.     THE MAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII.   The One and the Other\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX.     The Opportunity\u003cbr\u003eChapter X.      Seeing Life\u003cbr\u003eChapter XI.     The Thought\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII.    The Rescue\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIII.   Contrasts\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIV.    Renunciation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III.    THE OTHER WOMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XV.     On Mount Parnassus\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVI.    \"Love and Tupper\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVII.   Interventions\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVIII.  The Truth\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIX.    The Truth with a Vengeance\u003cbr\u003eChapter XX.     Waking-up Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK IV.     THE OTHER MAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXI.    The Flight\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXII.   The Lunatic\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXIII.  Temperatures\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXIV.   The Confessional\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXV.    The Forest\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXVI.   The Miracle\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXVII.  The Pink Silk Story\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXVIII. \"And so--\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePEOPLE OF THE  STORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEustace Vernon.              The Incomplete Amorist\u003cbr\u003eBetty Desmond                The Girl\u003cbr\u003eThe Rev. Cecil Underwood     Her Step-Father\u003cbr\u003eMiss Julia Desmond           Her Aunt\u003cbr\u003eRobert Temple                The Other Man\u003cbr\u003eLady St. Craye               The Other Woman\u003cbr\u003eMiss Voscoe                  The Art Student\u003cbr\u003eMadame Chevillon.            The Inn-Keeper at Crez\u003cbr\u003ePaula Conway                 A Soul in Hell\u003cbr\u003eMimi Chantal                 A Model\u003cbr\u003eVillage Matrons, Concierges, Art Students, Etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INEVITABLE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No. The chemises aren't cut out. I haven't had time. There are enough\u003cbr\u003eshirts to go on with, aren't there, Mrs. James?\" said Betty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We can make do for this afternoon, Miss, but the men they're getting\u003cbr\u003eblowed out with shirts. It's the children's shifts as we can't make\u003cbr\u003eshift without much longer.\" Mrs. James, habitually doleful, punctuated\u003cbr\u003eher speech with sniffs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That's a joke, Mrs. James,\" said Betty. \"How clever you are!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I try to be what's fitting,\" said Mrs. James, complacently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Talk of fitting,\" said Betty, \"If you like I'll fit on that black\u003cbr\u003ebodice for you, Mrs. Symes. If the other ladies don't mind waiting for\u003cbr\u003ethe reading a little bit.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'd as lief talk as read, myself,\" said a red-faced sandy-haired\u003cbr\u003ewoman; \"books ain't what they was in my young days.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If it's the same to you, Miss,\" said Mrs. Symes in a thick rich\u003cbr\u003evoice, \"I'll not be tried on afore a room full. If we are poor we can\u003cbr\u003eall be clean's what I say, and I keeps my unders as I keeps my\u003cbr\u003eoutside. But not before persons as has real imitation lace on their\u003cbr\u003epetticoat bodies. I see them when I was a-nursing her with her fourth.\u003cbr\u003eNo, Miss, and thanking you kindly, but begging your pardon all the\u003cbr\u003esame.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't mention it,\" said Betty absently. \"Oh, Mrs. Smith, you can't\u003cbr\u003ehave lost your thimble already. Why what's that you've got in your\u003cbr\u003emouth?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"So it is!\" Mrs. Smith's face beamed at the gratifying coincidence. \"It\u003cbr\u003ealways was my habit, from a child, to put things there for safety.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These cheap thimbles ain't fit to put in your mouth, no more than\u003cbr\u003ecoppers,\" said Mrs. James, her mouth full of pins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, nothing hurts you if you like it,\" said Betty recklessly. She had\u003cbr\u003ebeen reading the works of Mr. G.K. Chesterton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA shocked murmur arose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, Miss, what about the publy kows?\" said Mrs. Symes heavily. The\u003cbr\u003eothers nodded acquiescence.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158060286192,"sku":"2940013655430","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013655430_p0.jpg?v=1763583990","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013655430","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}