{"product_id":"2940015494822","title":"A PLUCKY GIRL","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHAP                                     PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. FORTUNE'S BALL                           1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     II. FRIENDS OR QUONDAM FRIENDS              9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III. MY SCHEME                             23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IV. THE VERDICT                            31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. JANE MULLINS                            55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VI. THE BERLIN WOOL ROOM                   74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII. THE PAYING GUESTS                     83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. THE FLOUR IN THE CAKE                96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IX. THE ARTIST'S EYE                      103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     X. HER GRACE OF WILMOT                    116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XI. WHY DID HE DO IT?                     132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XII. TWO EXTREMES                         147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIII. THE UGLY DRESS                      160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIV. ANXIETY                              176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XV. DR. READE                             186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVI. GIVE ME YOUR PROMISE                 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVII. A DASH OF ONIONS                    207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVIII. BUTTERED BREAD                     222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIX. YOU USED TO LOVE US                  234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XX. RUINED                                242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXI. MR. PATTENS                          250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXII. THE MAN IN POSSESSION               262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXIII. ALBERT                             273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXIV. THE BOND                            297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXV. YOU ARE A GOOD MAN                   311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXVI. HAND IN HAND                        319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXVII. TOO LATE                           324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXVIII. THIS DEAR GIRL BELONGS TO US      336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXIX. HAVE I LOST YOU?                    345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXX. THE DUCHESS HAS HER SAY              356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXXI. THE END CROWNS ALL                  368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA PLUCKY GIRL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFORTUNE'S BALL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was born a month after my father's death, and my mother called me\u003cbr\u003eafter him. His name was John Westenra Wickham, but I was Westenra\u003cbr\u003eWickham alone. It was a strange name for a girl, and as I grew up\u003cbr\u003epeople used to comment on it. Mother loved it very much, and always\u003cbr\u003epronounced it slowly. She was devoted to father, and never spoke of\u003cbr\u003ehim as most people do of their dead, but as if he were still living,\u003cbr\u003eand close to her and to me. When a very little child, my greatest\u003cbr\u003etreat was to sit on her knee and listen to wonderful stories of my\u003cbr\u003ebrave and gallant father. He was a handsome man and a good man, and he\u003cbr\u003emust have possessed, in a large degree, those qualities which endear\u003cbr\u003epeople to their fellows, for surely it was no light cause which made\u003cbr\u003emy mother's beautiful brown eyes sparkle as they did when she spoke of\u003cbr\u003ehim, and her whole face awake to the tenderest life and love and\u003cbr\u003ebeauty when she mentioned his name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI grew up, therefore, with a great passionate affection for my dead\u003cbr\u003efather, and a great pride in his memory. He had been a Major-General\u003cbr\u003ein a Lancer regiment, and had fought many battles for his country, and\u003cbr\u003eled his men through untold dangers, and performed himself more gallant\u003cbr\u003efeats than I could count. He received his fatal wound at last in\u003cbr\u003erescuing a brother-officer under fire in Zululand, and one of the last\u003cbr\u003ethings he was told was that he had received his Victoria Cross.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring my father's lifetime mother and he were well off, and for some\u003cbr\u003eyears after his death there did not appear to be any lack of money. I\u003cbr\u003ewas well educated, partly in Paris and partly in London, and we had a\u003cbr\u003epretty house in Mayfair, and when I was eighteen I was presented to\u003cbr\u003eHer Gracious Majesty by mother's special friend, and my godmother, the\u003cbr\u003eDuchess of Wilmot, and afterwards I went a great deal into society,\u003cbr\u003eand enjoyed myself as much as most girls who are spirited and happy\u003cbr\u003eand have kind friends are likely to do. I was quite one and twenty\u003cbr\u003ebefore the collapse came which changed everything. I don't know how,\u003cbr\u003eand I don't know why, but our gold vanished like a dream, and we found\u003cbr\u003eourselves almost penniless.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182381220080,"sku":"2940015494822","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015494822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}