Category: Novels
Both of my parents died while I was still a baby; and I passed my childhood at the home of my father's mother in Norwich Town--which lies upon the left bank of the river Yantic, some three miles to the north of Norwich City, in Eastern Connecticut.
Arthur Ripley, as I have said, meant to be a lawyer. He was full of enthusiasm for his future profession, and never tired of talking about it. In his room at home he had three o...
4. CHAPTER IV--AT MR. FINKELSTEIN'S.So you see me installed at Mr. Finkel-stein's as clerk, errand boy and general assistant. Next morning I entered upon the discharge of my duties, my kind employer showing me wha...
1. CHAPTER I.--THE NEPHEW OF A MARQUIS.Both of my parents died while I was still a baby; and I passed my childhood at the home of my father's mother in Norwich Town--which lies upon the left bank of the river Yantic,...
2. CHAPTER II--I MAKE A FRIEND.I shall not dwell upon my grief. It would be painful, and it would serve no purpose. The spring of 1871 was a very dark and dismal spring to me. It was as though a part--the bes...
3. CHAPTER III.--NEW YORK.I did not feel rich enough to take a stateroom on the City of Lawrence; that would have cost a dollar extra; so I picked out a sofa in the big gilt and white saloon, and sitting...
6. CHAPTER VI--MY UNCLE FLORIMOND.Yes, indeed, it was a very crest-fallen youth who accompanied Arthur Ripley back to New York that bright summer afternoon, and who toward bed-time that evening stole quietly int...