Timothy Crump's Ward: A Story of American Life
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Alger Horatio Jr.. Timothy Crump's Ward: A Story of American Life
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCES THE CRUMPS
CHAPTER II. THE EVENTS OF AN EVENING
CHAPTER III. THE LANDLORD’S VISIT
CHAPTER IV. THE NEW YEAR’S PRESENT
CHAPTER V. A LUCKY RESCUE
CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE ENVELOPE CONTAINED
CHAPTER VII. EIGHT YEARS. IDA’S PROGRESS
CHAPTER VIII. A STRANGE VISITOR
CHAPTER IX. A JOURNEY
CHAPTER X. UNEXPECTED QUARTERS
CHAPTER XI. SUSPENSE
CHAPTER XII. HOW IDA FARED
CHAPTER XIII. BAD COIN
CHAPTER XIV. DOUBTS AND FEARS
CHAPTER XV. AUNT RACHEL’S MISHAPS
CHAPTER XVI. THE FLOWER-GIRL
CHAPTER XVII. JACK OBTAINS INFORMATION
CHAPTER XVIII. FINESSE
CHAPTER XIX. CAUGHT IN A TRAP
CHAPTER XX. JACK IN CONFINEMENT
CHAPTER XXI. THE PRISONER ESCAPES
CHAPTER XXII. MR. JOHN SOMERVILLE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAW STEPS IN
CHAPTER XXIV. “THE FLOWER-GIRL.”
CHAPTER XXV. IDA IS FOUND
CHAPTER XXVI. “NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND.”
CHAPTER XXVII. CONCLUSION
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AT this moment the outer door opened, and Timothy Crump entered, not with the quick elastic step of one who brings good tidings, but slowly and deliberately, with a quiet gravity of demeanor, in which his wife could read only too well that he had failed in his efforts to procure work.
His wife, reading all these things in his manner, had the delicacy to forbear intruding upon him questions to which she saw that he could give no satisfactory answers.
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“Then why,” said he, half in extenuation, “why don’t you try to look pleasant and cheerful? Why won’t you be jolly, as Tom Piper’s aunt is?”
“I dare say I ain’t pleasant,” said Aunt Rachel, “as my own nephew tells me so. There is some folks that can be cheerful when their house is a burnin’ down before their eyes, and I’ve heard of one young man that laughed at his aunt’s funeral,” directing a severe glance at Jack; “but I’m not one of that kind. I think, with the Scriptures, that there’s a time to weep.”
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