Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
Mrs. Irvington was just entering her own door, when she was accosted in this manner. The speaker was a boy apparently less than ten years of age, dressed in torn pants which had evidently belonged to a person much older than himself. These were rolled up at the bottom and fast...
Mrs. Irvington was just entering her own door, when she was accosted in this manner. The speaker was a boy apparently less than ten years of age, dressed in torn pants which had...
2. CHAPTER II.FROM her chamber in the third story Mrs. Irvington could watch all the operations of her little workman without being herself seen. For a time, he took hold in earnest, filling...
3. CHAPTER III."'You wouldn't have got such a nice breakfast if I hadn't called you. I sha'n't work, though. I sarsed her well when she tried to make me, so you'd better believe I'm not going...
4. CHAPTER IV.WHEN Mrs. Irvington returned to her house, she accompanied Arthur to the cellar and explained what was to be done. During her absence, Joseph had accomplished but little. And sh...
5. CHAPTER V.WHEN the first load of chips was nicely stored in the cellar, Mr. Irvington sent a second, still larger. And at this Arthur worked until the Sabbath. It had now become his habit...
6. CHAPTER VI.THERE was once a great big man who lived in a hovel with his wife and five children. They were very poor, indeed,—as poor as they could be; and their hovel was tumbling down ove...
7. CHAPTER VII.JOHNNY was neither dirty nor ragged now. He had a new suit from top to bottom. Bridget, Mrs. Marsh's girl, had given him a bath and then burned his old clothes up. His pretty au...
8. CHAPTER VIII.MR. and Mrs. Olmstead were quiet, home people, who went regularly to church and in pleasant weather to one evening service in a week. But beside this, they seldom ventured into...
9. CHAPTER IX.The woman took the tiny envelope, turning it over and over while she fixed her keen glance on the boy's sweet face. "He had such a wistful, appealing look," she said afterwards,...
10. CHAPTER X.A NEW life now dawned on our little hero,—a life so peaceful and pleasant, so free from care, so abounding in love that the days glided into weeks and the weeks into months almo...
11. CHAPTER XI."WHAT can this mean, husband? I can't understand a word of it," exclaimed Mrs. Olmstead one day, about a month after the accident described in the last chapter, as she held a so...
12. CHAPTER XII.FOR several hours, Arthur was delirious, and imagined himself back in the gloomy cell. It was deeply affecting to those who watched by his side to hear him pour out his prayers...
13. CHAPTER XIII.IF Arthur's very dutiful conduct could have increased, it did so after his adoption. Mrs. Olmstead in her fondness would have had him give up the tasks which had formerly occupi...
14. CHAPTER XIV."I am getting on finely," said Arthur, coming in from the ship-yard one evening with a flush of pride on his cheek. "Mr. Munger says he could trust me to do the whole business o...
15. CHAPTER XV.ARTHUR was soon at Mr. Irvington's door, and was ushered by the servant into the gentleman's office at the end of the hall. He had been in the habit of going there often to do b...
16. CHAPTER XVI."If you were not in trouble, I should not take the liberty to write you. But since I saw you to-night in the office with Mr. Munger, when the gas shone for a minute full on your...
17. CHAPTER XVII.BEFORE I close my little book, I must tell you, my young reader, what effect Arthur's letter had on his old friend, Willie Irvington. We have seen where idleness and lying had l...