{"product_id":"2940015412437","title":"The White Virgin","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY A THREAD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a long, thin, white finger, one which had felt the throbbing of\u003cbr\u003ehundreds and thousands of pulses, and Doctor Praed, after viciously\u003cbr\u003eflicking at a fly which tried persistently to settle upon his\u003cbr\u003eivory-white, shiny, bald head, hooked that finger into Clive Reed's\u003cbr\u003ebutton-hole, just below the white rosebud Janet had given him a little\u003cbr\u003eearlier in the evening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mind the flower.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All right, puppy.  Come here.  I want to talk to you.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"About Janet?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pish! mawkish youth.  Great ugly fellow like you thinking of nothing\u003cbr\u003eelse but Janet.  Wait till you've been her slave as I have for eighteen\u003cbr\u003eyears.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pleasant slavery, Doctor,\" said the young man, smiling, as he allowed\u003cbr\u003ehimself to be led out on to the verandah just over the gas-lamp which\u003cbr\u003ehelped to light up Great Guildford Street, W.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is it, sir?  You don't know what a jealous little she-tartar she is.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I warn you I shall tell her every word you say, Doctor.  But it's of no\u003cbr\u003egood.  I shall not back out.  Look at her dear face now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReed caught the little Doctor by the shoulder, and pointed to where his\u003cbr\u003edaughter sat with the light of one of the shaded lamps falling upon her\u003cbr\u003epretty, animated face, as she laughed at something a sharp-looking,\u003cbr\u003ehandsome young man was saying--an anecdote of some kind which amused the\u003cbr\u003erest of the group in old Grantham Reed's drawing-room.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh yes, she's pretty enough,\" said the Doctor testily.  \"I wish she\u003cbr\u003eweren't.  Don't let that brother of yours be quite so civil to her, boy.\u003cbr\u003eI don't like Jessop.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nor me?\" said the young man, smiling.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177193292016,"sku":"2940015412437","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015412437","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}