{"product_id":"2940013746442","title":"The Haunted Cove","description":"Commonplace in itself and showing positive vulgarity in the style in\u003cbr\u003ewhich its pleasure-grounds are laid out, Clyffe, near Berwick-on-\u003cbr\u003eTweed, has yet one delightful feature of its own,--to wit, a private\u003cbr\u003ebay to which access is obtained by a tunnel seventy or eighty yards\u003cbr\u003elong, cut through the soft formation of the cliff from the sloping\u003cbr\u003egardens above. The result is that, if you are a visitor at Clyffe, you\u003cbr\u003ehave your own private bathing ground, your own private beach where the\u003cbr\u003echildren may play, without fear of being encroached upon, unless,\u003cbr\u003eindeed, a boat should be run in among the rocks from seaward. In the\u003cbr\u003eearly nineties of the last century, the only daughter of the house of\u003cbr\u003eClyffe was engaged to be married to a young officer quartered at the\u003cbr\u003emilitary depot at Berwick. They were a blameless but not particularly\u003cbr\u003einteresting couple, and one of their hobbies was to meet and promenade\u003cbr\u003eon the smooth sands of Clyffe bay in the brilliant autumn moonlight.\u003cbr\u003eIn order to prevent possible intrusion from the sea, the seaward end\u003cbr\u003eof the tunnel was closed by a heavy iron gate, and upon the inner side\u003cbr\u003eof this gate the Lieutenant was to wait until his fiancee should steal\u003cbr\u003eforth bringing with her the key which should give access to the beach.\u003cbr\u003eIt was all very foolish and romantic, no doubt, for they might have\u003cbr\u003emet just as conveniently in the conservatory of Clyffe House, where\u003cbr\u003etheir privacy would have been equally respected, and where Miss Alix's\u003cbr\u003esatin shoes and diaphanous draperies would have exposed her to no risk\u003cbr\u003eof a chill. Lovers are like that, however, and had they not been so on\u003cbr\u003ethis occasion, I should have had no story to tell.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070309122288,"sku":"2940013746442","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013746442","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}