Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3)

Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3)

BOOK I. FIGURES IN OUTLINE. CHAPTER I. Life in Great Suffolk Street CHAPTER II. Mattie CHAPTER III. Lodgers CHAPTER IV. Mr. Hinchford's Experiment CHAPTER V. Set up in Business CHAPTER VI. The end of the Prologue BOOK II. THE NEW ESTATE. CHAPTER I. Home for Good CHAPTER II. A Girl's Romance CHAPTER III. Our Characters CHAPTER IV. A New Admirer CHAPTER V. Perseverance CHAPTER VI. "In the fulness of the heart," etc. CHAPTER VII. Confidence CHAPTER VIII. Sidney states his Intentions BOOK III. UNDER SUSPICION. CHAPTER I. An old Friend CHAPTER II. Strange Visitors to Great Suffolk Street CHAPTER III. Sidney's Suggestion CHAPTER IV. Perplexity CHAPTER V. Mr. Wesden turns Eccentric CHAPTER VI. A Burst of Confidence CHAPTER VII. The Plan Frustrated CHAPTER VIII. A Sudden Journey It was not an evening party of the first water, or given by people of first-rate position in society, or held in a quarter whither the fashionable classes most do congregate. It was a small partyostensibly a juvenile partyheld on the first floor of a stationer's shop in Great Suffolk Street, Southwark. Not even a first-rate stationers', had the shutters been down and the fog less dense to allow us to inspect Mr. Wesden's wares; but an emporium, which did business in no end of thingscigars, tobacco-pipes, children's toys, glass beads by the skein or ounce, fancy work, cottons and tapes. These, the off-shoots from the stationery business, the news-vending, the circulating of novels in four, five, and six volumes at one penny per volume, if not detained more than three days; a stationery business which report said had not turned out badly for old Wesden, thanks to old Wesden's patience, industry and care, say wethanks to his screwing and his close-fistedness that would not have trusted his own mother, had she lived, said the good peoplefor there are good people everywherein Great Suffolk Street. Certainly, there were but small signs of "close-fistedness" about the premises on that particular evening; the shop had been closed at an earlier hour than business men would have considered suitable. They were wasting the gas in Mr. Wesden's drawing-room; feasting and revelry held dominion there. There had been three separate knocks given at the door from three separate GanymedesNo. 1, with oranges; No. 2, with tarts from the pastry-cook; No. 3, with beer, which last was left in a tin can of colossal proportions, supper not being ready, and beer being liable to flatness in jugsespecially the beer from the Crown. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35290
Author: Robinson, F. W. (Frederick William)
Release Date: Feb 15, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English