{"product_id":"2940016021171","title":"The Corsican Brothers","description":"The Corsican Brothers, a Novel by Alexandre Dumas, Translated by Henry Frith, 1880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedicated to Henry Irving, the Latest Representative of the Twin Brothers\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN the beginning of March, 1841, I was travelling in Corsica.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing is more picturesque and more easy to accomplish than a journey in Corsica. You \u003cbr\u003ecan embark at Toulon, in twenty hours you will be in Ajaccio, and then in twenty-four hours more you are at Bastia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce there you can hire or purchase a horse. If you wish to hire a horse you can do so for five francs a-day; if you purchase one you can have a good animal for one hundred and fifty francs. And don’t sneer at the moderate price, for the horse hired or purchased will perform as great feats as the famous Gascon horse which leaped over the Pont Neuf, which neither Prospero nor Nautilus, the heroes of Chantilly and the Champ de Mars could do. He will traverse roads which Balmat himself could not cross without crampons, and will go over bridges upon which Auriol would need a balancing pole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs for the traveller, all he has to do is to give the horse his head and let him go as he pleases; he does not mind the danger. We may add that with this horse, which can go anywhere, the traveller can accomplish his fifteen leagues a day without stopping to bait.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom time to time, while the tourist may be halting to examine some ancient castle, built by some old baron or legendary hero, or to sketch a tower built ages ago by the Genoese, the horse will be contented to graze by the road side, or to pluck the mosses from the rocks in the vicinity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs to lodging for the night, it is still more simple in Corsica. The traveller having arrived at a village, passes down through the principal street, and making his own choice of the house wherein he will rest, he knocks at the door. An instant after, the master or mistress will appear upon the threshold, invite the traveller to dismount; offer him a share of the family supper and the whole of his own bed, and next morning, when seeing him safely resume his journey, will thank him for the preference he has accorded to his house.","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080998830320,"sku":"2940016021171","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016021171_p0.jpg?v=1763636315","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016021171","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}