{"product_id":"2940013697485","title":"The Devil of the Marsh","description":"It was nigh upon dusk when I drew close to the Great Marsh, and\u003cbr\u003ealready the white vapours were about, riding across the sunken levels\u003cbr\u003elike ghosts in a churchyard. Though I had set forth in a mood of wild\u003cbr\u003edelight, I had sobered in the lonely ride across the moor and was now\u003cbr\u003euneasily alert. As my horse jerked down the grassy slopes that fell\u003cbr\u003eaway to the jaws of the swamp I could see thin streams of mist rise\u003cbr\u003eslowly, hover like wraiths above the long rushes, and then, turning\u003cbr\u003egradually more material, go blowing heavily away across the flat. The\u003cbr\u003eappearance of the place at this desolate hour, so remote from human\u003cbr\u003esociety and so darkly significant of evil presences, struck me with a\u003cbr\u003ecertain wonder that she should have chosen this spot for our meeting.\u003cbr\u003eShe was a familiar of the moors, where I had invariably encountered\u003cbr\u003eher; but it was like her arrogant caprice to test my devotion by some\u003cbr\u003esuch dreary assignation. The wide and horrid prospect depressed me\u003cbr\u003ebeyond reason, but the fact of her neighbourhood drew me on, and my\u003cbr\u003espirits mounted at the thought that at last she was to put me in\u003cbr\u003epossession of herself. Tethering my horse upon the verge of the swamp,\u003cbr\u003eI soon discovered the path that crossed it, and entering struck out\u003cbr\u003eboldly for the heart. The track could have been little used, for the\u003cbr\u003ereeds, which stood high above the level of my eyes upon either side,\u003cbr\u003estraggled everywhere across in low arches, through which I dodged, and\u003cbr\u003ebroke my way with some inconvenience and much impatience. A full half\u003cbr\u003ehour I was solitary in that wilderness, and when at last a sound other\u003cbr\u003ethan my own footsteps broke the silence the dusk had fallen.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152655630576,"sku":"2940013697485","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013697485","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}