{"product_id":"2940015517187","title":"A SON OF PERDITION","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHAP.                                      PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I. LOVE IN IDLENESS                        1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II. THE PROPHECY                           16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III. THE FULFILMENT                         31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV. PLOTTING                               47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V. THE MEETING                            66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI. A CONVERSATION                         83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII. BEHIND THE SCENES                      99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM                    112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IX. THE WARNING                           128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        X. IN CORNWALL                           144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XI. THE SPIDER AND THE FLY                160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XII. SMALL BEER CHRONICLES                 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIII. FURTHER SMALL BEER CHRONICLES         196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIV. PREPARATION                           215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XV. THE TRANCE                            231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XVI. THE DISCIPLE OF LOVE                  248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVII. THE DISCIPLE OF HATE                  267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVIII. THE NIGHT BEFORE                      282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIX. THE MORNING AFTER                     298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XX. THE UNEXPECTED                        317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XXI. THE CHOICE                            333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXII. RIGHT IS MIGHT                        350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIII. THE ETERNAL STRIFE                    368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXIV. DAWN                                  386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLOVE IN IDLENESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How can any one hope to transfer that to canvas?\" asked the artist,\u003cbr\u003esurveying the many-coloured earth and sky and sea with despairing eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Easily enough,\" replied the girl at his elbow, \"those who see twice as\u003cbr\u003evividly as others, can make others see once as vividly as they do. That\u003cbr\u003eis what we call genius.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A large word for my small capabilities, Miss Enistor. Am I a genius?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ask yourself, Mr. Hardwick, for none other than yourself can answer\u003cbr\u003etruly.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutside his special gift the artist was not over clever, so he lounged\u003cbr\u003eon the yielding turf of the slope to turn the speech over in his mind\u003cbr\u003eand wait results. This tall solidly built Saxon only arrived at\u003cbr\u003econclusions by slow degrees of laborious reflection. With his straight\u003cbr\u003eathletic figure, closely clipped fair hair and a bronzed complexion,\u003cbr\u003eagainst which his moustache looked almost white, he resembled a soldier\u003cbr\u003erather than a painter. Yet a painter he was of some trifling fame, but\u003cbr\u003ebeing only moderately creative, he strove to supply what was wanting by\u003cbr\u003etoilsome work. He had not so much the steady fire of genius as the\u003cbr\u003ecrackling combustion of talent. Thus the grim Cornish country and the\u003cbr\u003efar-stretching Atlantic waters, so magically beautiful under an\u003cbr\u003eopalescent sunset, baffled him for the moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have the beginnings of genius,\" he finally decided, \"that is, I can\u003cbr\u003esee for myself, but I cannot pass the vision on to others by\u003cbr\u003eproduction.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Half a loaf is better than none,\" said Miss Enistor soothingly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I am not so sure that your proverb is true, so I reply with another. If\u003cbr\u003eindeed appetite comes with eating, as the French say, it is useless to\u003cbr\u003einvite it with half a loaf, when, for complete satisfaction, one\u003cbr\u003erequires the whole.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is something in that,\" admitted the girl, smiling, \"but try and\u003cbr\u003esecure your desired whole loaf by sitting mousey-quiet and letting what\u003cbr\u003eis before you sink into your innermost being. Then you may create.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrossing his legs and gripping his ankles, Hardwick, seated in the\u003cbr\u003eapproved attitude of a fakir, did his best to adopt this advice,\u003cbr\u003ealthough he might well despair of fixing on canvas the fleeting vision\u003cbr\u003eof that enchanted hour. From the cromlech, near which the couple were\u003cbr\u003estationed, a purple carpet of heather rolled down to a winding road,\u003cbr\u003ewhite and dusty and broad. On the hither side of the loosely built wall\u003cbr\u003ewhich skirted this, stretched many smooth green fields, divided and\u003cbr\u003esubdivided by boundaries of piled stones, feathery with ferns and coarse\u003cbr\u003egrasses. Beyond the confines of this ordered world, a chaos of bracken\u003cbr\u003eand ling, of small shrubs and stunted trees, together with giant masses\u003cbr\u003eof silvery granite, islanded amidst a sea of gold-besprinkled gorse,\u003cbr\u003etumbled pell-mell to the jagged edge of the cliffs. Finally, the bluish\u003cbr\u003eplain of ocean glittered spaciously to the far sharp horizon-line.\u003cbr\u003eThence rose billowy clouds of glorious hues threaded with the fires of\u003cbr\u003ethe sinking sun, heaping themselves in rainbow tints higher and higher\u003cbr\u003etowards the radiant azure of the zenith.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069566599408,"sku":"2940015517187","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015517187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}