{"product_id":"the-moonstone-by-wilkie-collins-copy","title":"The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first part of ROBINSON CRUSOE, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ''Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.''Only yesterday, I opened my ROBINSON CRUSOE at that place. Only this morning (May twenty-first, Eighteen hundred and fifty), came my lady's nephew, Mr. Franklin Blake, and held a short conversation with me, as follows: -''Betteredge,'' says Mr. Franklin, ''I have been to the lawyer's about some family matters; and, among other things, we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond, in my aunt's house in Yorkshire, two years since. Mr. Bruff thinks as I think, that the whole story ought, in the interests of truth, to be placed on record in writing-and the sooner the better.''Not perceiving his drift yet, and thinking it always desirable for the sake of peace and quietness to be on the lawyer's side, I said I thought so too. Mr. Franklin went on.''In this matter of the Diamond,'' he said, ''the characters of innocent people have suffered under suspicion already-as you know. The memories of innocent people may suffer, hereafter, for want of a record of the facts to which those who come after us can appeal. There can be no doubt that this strange family story of ours ought to be told. And I think, Betteredge, Mr. Bruff and I together have hit on the right way of telling it.''Very satisfactory to both of them, no doubt. But I failed to see what I myself had to do with it, so fa'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67705102237770,"sku":"4638i","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4638i.jpg?v=1792122210","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-moonstone-by-wilkie-collins-copy","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}