{"product_id":"2940016102955","title":"THE LAST MIRACLE","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY VISIT TO SWANDALE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have been asked by the publishers who bring out this book to add yet a\u003cbr\u003emite to the mass of writing which has appeared in regard to the late\u003cbr\u003eevents, for how are the mighty fallen! and, as when an oak announces its\u003cbr\u003edownfall through the forest, so here it was only natural that the little\u003cbr\u003efowl should fly and flap, with outcries (sometimes) of sharp shrillness!\u003cbr\u003eMuch, then, has been written and said; and if I now place my small word\u003cbr\u003ewith the books already sprung out of what we call \"The Revival\" and,\u003cbr\u003erather blatantly, the \"Abolition of Christianity,\" my excuse lies in the\u003cbr\u003ecircumstance that during those storms I was much with Aubrey Langler,\u003cbr\u003eand that, long before those events, I was probably his closest friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI can, therefore, give details as to that gracious life and the strifes\u003cbr\u003ein which he had a hand not very possible to another writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was my way to stay with Langler at least thrice a year. My crowded\u003cbr\u003etown-life was a rude enough contrast with his eremite mood, so I rarely\u003cbr\u003efailed to avail myself of his invitations. Of these he gave me one in\u003cbr\u003ethe August of the year of the Pope's visit, and shortly afterwards I\u003cbr\u003estarted for Alresford (Swandale lies five miles north-west of Alresford\u003cbr\u003eby carriage-road).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere happened to travel in the rail-train with me a remarkable man:\u003cbr\u003ecertainly, I think that I never beheld a larger human being, except in\u003cbr\u003ean exhibition. We were alone in my carriage, and I was able to take note\u003cbr\u003eof him. His vast jacket was of satin, and from every button ran two\u003cbr\u003ecords of silk, ending in a barrel-shaped ornament of silk, such as used,\u003cbr\u003eI believe, to be called \"frogs\"; his shirt was frilled and limp; and he\u003cbr\u003ewore four or five rings. This was enough to prove him a foreigner,\u003cbr\u003ethough otherwise his dress was ordinary. He sat with his fat legs wide\u003cbr\u003eapart, smiling at the world in the most good-humoured, yet sneering way,\u003cbr\u003eshowing some very long top teeth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the time his hand travelled to and fro, fro and to, in a rub along\u003cbr\u003ethe tightly-clad length of his thigh.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146522902768,"sku":"2940016102955","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016102955","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}