{"product_id":"2940014306416","title":"After the Storm","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Would you have me assent if he said black was white?\" she answered to her father's remonstrance one day, balancing her little head firmly and setting her lips together in a resolute way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It might be wiser to say nothing than to utter dissent, if, in so doing, both were made unhappy,\" returned her father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And so let him think me a passive fool?\" she asked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No; a prudent girl, shaming his unreasonableness by her self-control.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have read somewhere,\" said Irene, \"that all men are self-willed tyrants--the words do not apply to you, my father, and so there is an exception to the rule.\" She smiled a tender smile as she looked into the face of a parent who had ever been too indulgent. \"But, from my experience with a lover, I can well believe the sentiment based in truth. Hartley must have me think just as he thinks, and do what he wants me to do, or he gets ruffled.","brand":"Sheba Blake Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180440109296,"sku":"2940014306416","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014306416_p0.jpg?v=1763605501","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014306416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}