{"product_id":"2940016291628","title":"Jude the Obscure","description":"AT MARYGREEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for\u003cbr\u003e    women, and become servants for their sakes.  Many also\u003cbr\u003e    have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.... O\u003cbr\u003e    ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing\u003cbr\u003e    they do thus?\"--ESDRAS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.\u003cbr\u003eThe miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and\u003cbr\u003ehorse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty\u003cbr\u003emiles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the\u003cbr\u003edeparting teacher's effects.  For the schoolhouse had been partly\u003cbr\u003efurnished by the managers, and the only cumbersome article possessed\u003cbr\u003eby the master, in addition to the packing-case of books, was a\u003cbr\u003ecottage piano that he had bought at an auction during the year in\u003cbr\u003ewhich he thought of learning instrumental music.  But the enthusiasm\u003cbr\u003ehaving waned he had never acquired any skill in playing, and the\u003cbr\u003epurchased article had been a perpetual trouble to him ever since in\u003cbr\u003emoving house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rector had gone away for the day, being a man who disliked the\u003cbr\u003esight of changes.  He did not mean to return till the evening, when\u003cbr\u003ethe new school-teacher would have arrived and settled in, and\u003cbr\u003eeverything would be smooth again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe blacksmith, the farm bailiff, and the schoolmaster himself were\u003cbr\u003estanding in perplexed attitudes in the parlour before the instrument.\u003cbr\u003eThe master had remarked that even if he got it into the cart he\u003cbr\u003eshould not know what to do with it on his arrival at Christminster,\u003cbr\u003ethe city he was bound for, since he was only going into temporary\u003cbr\u003elodgings just at first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little boy of eleven, who had been thoughtfully assisting in the\u003cbr\u003epacking, joined the group of men, and as they rubbed their chins he\u003cbr\u003espoke up, blushing at the sound of his own voice: \"Aunt have got a\u003cbr\u003egreat fuel-house, and it could be put there, perhaps, till you've\u003cbr\u003efound a place to settle in, sir.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A proper good notion,\" said the blacksmith.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071256609008,"sku":"2940016291628","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016291628_p0.jpg?v=1763632388","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016291628","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}