{"product_id":"2940013740648","title":"My Wife's Tempter","description":"Elsie and I were to be married in less than a week. It was rather a\u003cbr\u003estrange match, and I knew that some of our neighbors shook their heads\u003cbr\u003eover it and said that no good would come. The way it came to pass was\u003cbr\u003ethus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI loved Elsie Burns for two years, during which time she refused me\u003cbr\u003ethree times. I could no more help asking her to have me, when the\u003cbr\u003echance offered, than I could help breathing or living. To love her\u003cbr\u003eseemed natural to me as existence. I felt no shame, only sorrow, when\u003cbr\u003eshe rejected me; I felt no shame either when I renewed my suit. The\u003cbr\u003eneighbors called me mean-spirited to take up with any girl that had\u003cbr\u003erefused me as often as Elsie Burns had done; but what cared I about\u003cbr\u003ethe neighbors? If it is black weather, and the sun is under a cloud\u003cbr\u003eevery day for a month, is that any reason why the poor farmer should\u003cbr\u003enot hope for the blue sky and the plentiful burst of warm light when\u003cbr\u003ethe dark month is over? I never entirely lost heart. Do not, however,\u003cbr\u003emistake me. I did not mope, and moan, and grow pale, after the manner\u003cbr\u003eof poetical lovers. No such thing. I went bravely about my business,\u003cbr\u003eate and drank as usual, laughed when the laugh went round, and slept\u003cbr\u003esoundly, and woke refreshed. Yet all this time I loved--desperately\u003cbr\u003eloved--Elsie Burns. I went wherever I hoped to meet her, but did not\u003cbr\u003ehaunt her with my attentions. I behaved to her as any friendly young\u003cbr\u003eman would have behaved: I met her and parted from her cheerfully. She\u003cbr\u003ewas a good girl, too, and behaved well. She had me in her power---how\u003cbr\u003ea woman in Elsie's situation could have mortified a man in mine!--but\u003cbr\u003eshe never took the slightest advantage of it. She danced with me when\u003cbr\u003eI asked her, and had no foolish fears of allowing me to see her home\u003cbr\u003eof nights, after a ball was over, or of wandering with me through the\u003cbr\u003epleasant New England fields when the wild flowers made the paths like\u003cbr\u003eroads in fairyland.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070245748976,"sku":"2940013740648","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013740648_p0.jpg?v=1763589625","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013740648","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}