{"product_id":"2940148553243","title":"Flames","description":"He lay back, puffing violently at his cigarette.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is strange,\" Valentine said, seeing he had finished. \"You know, to live as I do is no effort to me, and so it is absurd to praise me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I won't praise you, but it's outrageous of you to want to feel as I and other men feel.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is it? I don't think so. I think it is very natural. My life is a dead calm, and a dead calm is monotonous.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's better than an everlasting storm.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I wonder!\" Valentine said. \"How curious that I should protect you. I am glad it is so. And yet, Julian, in spite of what you say, I would give a great deal to change souls with you, if only for a day or two. You will laugh at me, but I do long to feel a real, keen temptation. Those agonizing struggles of holy men that one reads of, what can they be like? I can hardly imagine.","brand":"Dons Ebooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122391367920,"sku":"2940148553243","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148553243_p0.jpg?v=1763704473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148553243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}