Category: Novels
The Climbers
ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by the AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Chapters
1. Part 1
ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by the AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District...
2. Part 2There was something in Jennie’s philosophy that quieted me a little; and drawing her to my side, I tried first to command myself and then comfort her. Excited as the poor child...
3. Part 3“Do right, Marston, and study all you can,” had been his last words. Mr. Jeffries was very kind, and as if to make amends for the last night, gave me an hour to myself after din...
4. Part 4By this time we were near the house, a white two-story building, with a broad veranda looking southward from the last low shelf of the hills, with an ample school-room in the re...
5. Part 5“It is well done,” said Mr. Wentworth with a pleasant smile. “Such examples make boys think; and when once they begin to think, then they begin to learn in reality. Perhaps you...
6. Part 6It was said by a celebrated divine, “What we wish to be, that we become.” And perhaps it is so; for when our Creator allows a great longing to fill the soul, in the wish itself...
7. Part 7“And you will not call it so much lost time?” drawing his chair to the table, and placing his feet on the fender. “To tell the truth, I am ashamed of the life I am leading this...
8. Part 8“I cannot do three years’ work in one. Besides, it is easier to fall into bad habits than to get rid of them. After all, I may get along just as well; but mother expected me to...
9. Part 9“How is this?” said Stevens, eyeing me keenly; “afraid or unwilling to pledge me in a glass of wine?” All eyes were turned upon me, and I felt the blood recede from my face.