{"product_id":"2940149997848","title":"A Country Sweetheart: A Fiction and Literature Classic By Dora Russell! AAA+++","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great surgeon only stayed a few minutes longer in the grief-stricken household after this, and then was driven away. And when he was gone, with a heavy sigh--almost a moan--Mr. Temple began to ascend the staircase, and on the first landing a lady was standing waiting for him with terrible anxiety written on her pale face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Temple looked up when he saw her, and shook his head, and as he did this the lady sprang forward and gripped his hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What did he say?\" she asked in a hoarse whisper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Come in here, my poor Rachel,\" he answered gently, and as he spoke he led her forward into a room on the landing, the door of which chanced to be open, and then closed it behind them. \"My dear--I grieve very much to say--Sir Henry's opinion is not very favorable.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis voice broke and faltered as he said these words, and a sort of gasping sigh escaped the lady's lips as she listened to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What did he say?\" she repeated, with her eyes fixed in a wild stare on Mr. Temple's face.\u003cbr\u003e\"He--he said we must prepare--\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, no! not to lose him!\" cried the lady with a sudden passionate wail. \"Phillip, I can not, I will not! He was so bright a few hours ago--so bright and well--my Phil, my boy--and now, now--it will kill me if he dies!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe flung herself on the floor in a frantic passion of grief before her husband could prevent her, and lay there writhing in a terrible paroxysm of despair, while the gray-haired man beside her bent over her, and tried in vain to comfort or soothe her. She was his wife, but fully twenty years younger than he was; a handsome dark-eyed woman, of some thirty-five years, and the injured boy lying in the darkened room was her only child.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149286097136,"sku":"2940149997848","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149997848_p0.jpg?v=1763728162","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149997848","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}