# The Last Penny

Author: Lefevre, Edwin, 1871-1943

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51966

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Last+Penny+Lefevre&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was his second day at home and his third day out of college. Already his undergraduate life seemed far away. His triumphs--of personality rather than of scholarship--lingered as a luminous mist that softened the sterner realities and mellowed them goldenly. When one is young reminiscences of one's youth are apt to take on a tinge of melancholy, but Tommy, not having breakfasted, shook off the mood determinedly. He was two hundred and fifty-five months old; therefore, he decided that no great man ever crosses a bridge until he comes to it. Tommy's bridge was still one long joy-ride ahead. The sign, “Slow down to four miles an hour!” was not yet in sight. The selection of the necktie was...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-penny-51966/chapters/3/index.md)