{"product_id":"2940016178325","title":"The Wyvern Mystery Volume I, II, III","description":"In the small breakfast parlour of Oulton, a pretty girl, Miss Alice\u003cbr\u003eMaybell, with her furs and wrappers about her, and a journey of forty\u003cbr\u003emiles before her -- not by rail -- to Wyvern, had stood up to hug and kiss\u003cbr\u003eher old aunt, and bid her good-bye.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Now, do sit down again; you need not be in such a hurry -- you're not to\u003cbr\u003ego for ten minutes or more,\" said the old lady; \"do, there's a darling.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If I'm not home before the sun goes down, aunt, Mr. Fairfield will be\u003cbr\u003eso angry,\" said the girl, laying a hand on each shoulder of kind old\u003cbr\u003eLady Wyndale, and looking fondly, but also sadly, into her face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Which Mr. Fairfield, dear -- the old or the young one?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Old Mr. Fairfield, the Squire, as we call him at Wyvern. He'll really\u003cbr\u003ebe angry, and I'm a little bit afraid of him, and I would not vex him\u003cbr\u003efor the world -- he has always been so kind.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she answered, the young lady blushed a beautiful crimson, and the old\u003cbr\u003elady, not observing it, said --\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Indeed, I don't know why I said young -- young Mr. Fairfield is old\u003cbr\u003eenough, I think, to be your father; but I want to know how you liked\u003cbr\u003eLord Tremaine. I told you how much he liked you. I'm a great believer in\u003cbr\u003efirst impressions. He was so charmed with you, when he saw you in Wyvern\u003cbr\u003eChurch. Of course he ought to have been thinking of something better;\u003cbr\u003ebut no matter -- the fact was so, and now he is, I really think, in love\u003cbr\u003e-- very much -- and who knows? He's such a charming person, and there is\u003cbr\u003eeverything to make it -- I don't know what word to use -- but you know\u003cbr\u003eTremaine is quite a beautiful place, and he does not owe a guinea.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You dear old auntie,\" said the girl, kissing her again on the cheek,\u003cbr\u003e\"wicked old darling -- always making great matches for me. If you had\u003cbr\u003eremained in India, you'd have married me, I'm sure, to a native prince.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Native fiddlestick; of course I could if I had liked, but you never\u003cbr\u003eshould have married a Mahomedan with my consent. Never mind though;\u003cbr\u003eyou're sure to do well; marriages are made in heaven, and I really\u003cbr\u003ebelieve there is no use in plotting and planning. There was your darling\u003cbr\u003emamma, when we were both girls together, I said I should never consent\u003cbr\u003eto marry a soldier or live out of England, and I did marry a soldier,\u003cbr\u003eand lived twelve years of my life in India; and she, poor darling, said\u003cbr\u003eagain and again, she did not care who her husband might be, provided he\u003cbr\u003ewas not a clergyman, nor a person living all the year round in the\u003cbr\u003ecountry -- _that_ no power could induce her to consent to, and yet she did\u003cbr\u003econsent, and to both one and the other, and married a clergyman, and a\u003cbr\u003epoor one, and lived and died in the country. So, after all, there's not\u003cbr\u003emuch use in planning beforehand.\"","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069856760048,"sku":"2940016178325","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016178325_p0.jpg?v=1763630633","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016178325","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}