Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
"But, who lives in this house?" asked Mr. Ellison. "You have said nothing about them, have you? They must be poor enough to need attention, judging from the outside of the dwelling and its surroundings."
"But, who lives in this house?" asked Mr. Ellison. "You have said nothing about them, have you? They must be poor enough to need attention, judging from the outside of the dwell...
2. CHAPTER II.CELIA MERRITT had just returned from church, and was engaged, with some assistance from her little brothers, in getting ready the scanty dinner. Mrs. Merritt was sitting in a ea...
3. CHAPTER III.AFTER thinking the matter over a good deal, Mr. Vanderburgh came to the conclusion that the best way he could make amends to Robert for his hasty speech, would be by employing h...
4. CHAPTER IV.THE next morning, Bob dressed himself as neatly as he was able with his limited means, and at an early hour presented himself at Mr. Vanderburgh's office. The clerks had not yet...
5. CHAPTER V.AS soon as Celia had finished her evening's work, she dressed herself and went up to Mrs. Huntley to ask her advice, in the matter of going into the factory. The lady was very k...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE next Monday after the conversation recorded in the last chapter, Robert went to live at Dr. Huntley's. He had anticipated a good deal of opposition from his father, but in t...
7. CHAPTER VII."I knew it would be just so," continued the gentleman, taking a chair; "I never expected any thing else. He is a regular hard case, and will come to the gallows as sure as he is...
8. CHAPTER VIII.BY the time that the weather became settled in the spring, Robert's health was again fully established, and he was able to do more work than ever. His horticultural tastes found...
9. CHAPTER IX.THE Sunday before she was to go to her place, as Celia took her accustomed seat in church, she was surprised to find her old associate Lydia Hinds in the pew before her. She had...
10. CHAPTER X.THE lessons which Celia had received at Mrs. Hewson's, as we remarked in the last chapter, did her a great deal of good, inasmuch as they made her very willing to take pains wit...
11. CHAPTER XI.WE must now ask our readers to pass hastily over a period of about two years, during which time nothing particularly worthy of notice occurred to our hero and heroine.
12. CHAPTER XII.WE shall not attempt to follow our friend Robert through his whole college career; suffice it to say, that he worked hard, and kept himself conscientiously out of the way of tem...