{"product_id":"2940014738446","title":"Hunted Down:The Detective Stories Of Charles Dickens","description":"I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of us see some romances in life.  In my capacity as Chief\u003cbr\u003eManager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last\u003cbr\u003ethirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however\u003cbr\u003eunpromising the opportunity may, at first sight, seem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I have retired, and live at my ease, I possess the means that I\u003cbr\u003eused to want, of considering what I have seen, at leisure.  My\u003cbr\u003eexperiences have a more remarkable aspect, so reviewed, than they\u003cbr\u003ehad when they were in progress.  I have come home from the Play\u003cbr\u003enow, and can recall the scenes of the Drama upon which the curtain\u003cbr\u003ehas fallen, free from the glare, bewilderment, and bustle of the\u003cbr\u003eTheatre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet me recall one of these Romances of the real world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with\u003cbr\u003emanner.  The art of reading that book of which Eternal Wisdom\u003cbr\u003eobliges every human creature to present his or her own page with\u003cbr\u003ethe individual character written on it, is a difficult one,\u003cbr\u003eperhaps, and is little studied.  It may require some natural\u003cbr\u003eaptitude, and it must require (for everything does) some patience\u003cbr\u003eand some pains.  That these are not usually given to it, - that\u003cbr\u003enumbers of people accept a few stock commonplace expressions of the\u003cbr\u003eface as the whole list of characteristics, and neither seek nor\u003cbr\u003eknow the refinements that are truest, - that You, for instance,\u003cbr\u003egive a great deal of time and attention to the reading of music,\u003cbr\u003eGreek, Latin, French, Italian, Hebrew, if you please, and do not\u003cbr\u003equalify yourself to read the face of the master or mistress looking\u003cbr\u003eover your shoulder teaching it to you, - I assume to be five\u003cbr\u003ehundred times more probable than improbable.  Perhaps a little\u003cbr\u003eself-sufficiency may be at the bottom of this; facial expression\u003cbr\u003erequires no study from you, you think; it comes by nature to you to\u003cbr\u003eknow enough about it, and you are not to be taken in.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080365555952,"sku":"2940014738446","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014738446_p0.jpg?v=1763614476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014738446","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}