{"product_id":"2940013677142","title":"The Spectral Coach of Blackadon","description":"The old vicarage-house at Talland, as seen from the Looe road, its low\u003cbr\u003eroof and grey walls peeping prettily from between the dense boughs of\u003cbr\u003eash and elm that environed it, was as picturesque an object as you\u003cbr\u003ecould desire to see. The seclusion of its situation was enhanced by\u003cbr\u003ethe character of the house itself. It was an odd-looking, old-\u003cbr\u003efashioned building, erected apparently in an age when asceticism and\u003cbr\u003eself-denial were more in vogue than at present, with a stern disregard\u003cbr\u003eof the comfort of the inhabitant, and in utter contempt of received\u003cbr\u003eprinciples of taste. As if not secure enough in its retirement, a high\u003cbr\u003ewall, enclosing a courtelage in front, effectually protected its\u003cbr\u003einmates from the prying passenger, and only revealed the upper part of\u003cbr\u003ethe house, with its small Gothic windows, its slated roof, and heavy\u003cbr\u003echimneys partly hidden by the evergreen shrubs which grew in the\u003cbr\u003eenclosure. Such was it until its removal a few years since; and such\u003cbr\u003ewas it as it lay sweetly in the shadows of an autumnal evening one\u003cbr\u003ehundred and thirty years ago, when a stranger in the garb of a country\u003cbr\u003elabourer knocked hesitatingly at the wicket gate which conducted to\u003cbr\u003ethe court. After a little delay a servant-girl appeared, and finding\u003cbr\u003ethat the countryman bore a message to the vicar, admitted him within\u003cbr\u003ethe walls, and conducted him along a paved passage to the little, low,\u003cbr\u003edamp parlour where sat the good man. The Rev. Mr Dodge was in many\u003cbr\u003erespects a remarkable man. You would have judged as much of him as he\u003cbr\u003esat before the fire in his high-back chair, in an attitude of thought,\u003cbr\u003earranging, it may have been, the heads of his next Sabbath's\u003cbr\u003ediscourse.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180091949296,"sku":"2940013677142","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013677142_p0.jpg?v=1763583856","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013677142","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}