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During the course of the last ten or at most fifteen years, a new class of building has, mushroom like, sprung up in the Metropolis, which cannot perhaps better be described in a sentence than as
A long course of successful trade, big warehouses, troops of clerks, fleets of vessels,--by these things and such as these shall a man work out his temporal salvation; and, ther...
10. CHAPTER IX."DEAR AUNT,--(thus Mrs. Mortomley to Miss Gerace)--I have been a little ill, and I am here by the doctor's advice for change of air and scene; but I find that the moaning of the...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Some eighteen months before that especial September of which I am now writing, Mrs. Mortomley's then maid announced her intention of marrying. She did not, however, wish to inco...
11. CHAPTER X.Landing stages and railway bridges, which have altered the aspect of so many other places of business, have left St. Vedast Wharf untouched. And the curious inquirer will find i...
3. CHAPTER II.To this man, prosperous in spite of the reverses he had experienced--contented notwithstanding the recollections his memory must have held--hypocritical to Heaven and his fellow...
6. CHAPTER V.As has been already stated, Mr. Henry Werner assisted at the wedding in the character of best man, and it was to this circumstance that he owed the good fortune of subsequently...
9. CHAPTER VIII.By reason of favourable winds and propitious currents Mrs. Mortomley had almost sailed out of sight of those heavily-freighted merchant ships which hold on one accustomed course...
4. CHAPTER III.For once, however, Mr. Asherill was in earnest. Knowing what liquidation meant to the debtor and the creditors (he had grasped its meaning thoroughly before deciding to make his...
2. CHAPTER I.During the course of the last ten or at most fifteen years, a new class of building has, mushroom like, sprung up in the Metropolis, which cannot perhaps better be described in...
12. CHAPTER XI.This intention, however, was abandoned at the advice of a very shrewd individual who, happening to meet the "conspirators," as he facetiously styled Rupert and his uncle, in the...
7. CHAPTER VI."My dear, you never mean to tell me Richard Halling's son and daughter are _here_ for an indefinite period." It was Mrs. Werner who, dressed in a light summer muslin, which trai...
14. CHAPTER XIII.That was not a pleasant summer at Homewood. True, the sun shone, and the birds sang, and the flowers bloomed, and the fruit ripened, but the Mortomleys could take no enjoyment o...
13. CHAPTER XII.If the atmosphere of the City had proved trying to more than one person on that especial day when Mr. Forde felt it necessary to wonder what, in the event of Mortomley's failing...
8. CHAPTER VII.When Mrs. Mortomley stated that the rich men's wives--the carriage-and-pair and moderate-single-brougham ladies, who had duly called at Homewood and made acquaintance with the c...
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