{"product_id":"2940014607759","title":"THE LOST STRADIVARIUS","description":"MISS SOPHIA MALTRAVERS' STORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour father, John Maltravers, was born in 1820 at Worth, and succeeded\u003cbr\u003ehis father and mine, who died when we were still young children. John\u003cbr\u003ewas sent to Eton in due course, and in 1839, when he was nineteen years\u003cbr\u003eof age, it was determined that he should go to Oxford. It was intended\u003cbr\u003eat first to enter him at Christ Church; but Dr. Sarsdell, who visited us\u003cbr\u003eat Worth in the summer of 1839, persuaded Mr. Thoresby, our guardian, to\u003cbr\u003esend him instead to Magdalen Hall. Dr. Sarsdell was himself Principal of\u003cbr\u003ethat institution, and represented that John, who then exhibited some\u003cbr\u003esymptoms of delicacy, would meet with more personal attention under his\u003cbr\u003ecare than he could hope to do in so large a college as Christ Church.\u003cbr\u003eMr. Thoresby, ever solicitous for his ward's welfare, readily waived\u003cbr\u003eother considerations in favour of an arrangement which he considered\u003cbr\u003econducive to John's health, and he was accordingly matriculated at\u003cbr\u003eMagdalen Hall in the autumn of 1839.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Sarsdell had not been unmindful of his promise to look after my\u003cbr\u003ebrother, and had secured him an excellent first-floor sitting-room, with\u003cbr\u003ea bedroom adjoining, having an aspect towards New College Lane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI shall pass over the first two years of my brother's residence at\u003cbr\u003eOxford, because they have nothing to do with the present story. They\u003cbr\u003ewere spent, no doubt, in the ordinary routine of work and recreation\u003cbr\u003ecommon in Oxford at that period.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070723244272,"sku":"2940014607759","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014607759","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}