Brave and Bold; Or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton
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Alger Horatio Jr.. Brave and Bold; Or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton
CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG RIVALS
CHAPTER II. PUNISHING A COWARD
CHAPTER III. THE SPECIAL DEPOSIT
CHAPTER IV. THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER V. DISCHARGED
CHAPTER VI. HALBERT'S DISCOMFITURE
CHAPTER VII. THE STRANGE PASSENGER
CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD FARMHOUSE
CHAPTER IX. THE UNWELCOME GUEST
CHAPTER X. UNCLE AND NEPHEW
CHAPTER XI. ROBERT COMES TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XII. ESCAPE
CHAPTER XIII. REVENGE
CHAPTER XIV. TWO UNSATISFACTORY INTERVIEWS
CHAPTER XV. HALBERT'S MALICE
CHAPTER XVI. ON THE RAILROAD TRACK
CHAPTER XVII. THE YOUNG CAPITALIST
CHAPTER XVIII. A VISIT TO THE LAWYER
CHAPTER XIX. THE MESSAGE FROM THE SEA
CHAPTER XX. A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE
CHAPTER XXI. A DENIAL
CHAPTER XXII. ROBERT'S NEW PROJECT
CHAPTER XXIII. A DISHONEST BAGGAGE-SMASHER
CHAPTER XXIV. A GOOD BEGINNING
CHAPTER XXV. A DECLARATION OF WAR
CHAPTER XXVI. OUT ON THE OCEAN
CHAPTER XXVII. FRANK PRICE
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE NEW CAPTAIN
CHAPTER XXIX. THE CAPTAIN'S REVENGE
CHAPTER XXX. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER XXXI. THE ISLAND REALM
CHAPTER XXXII. A SUCCESSFUL MISSION
CHAPTER XXXIII. DEFEATED
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE CUP AND THE LIP
CHAPTER XXXV. CONCLUSION
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Mrs. Rushton and her son occupied a little cottage, not far from the factory. Behind it were a few square rods of garden, in which Robert raised a few vegetables, working generally before or after his labor in the factory. They lived in a very plain way, but Mrs. Rushton was an excellent manager, and they had never lacked the common comforts of life. The husband and father had followed the sea. Two years before, he left the port of Boston as captain of the ship Norman, bound for Calcutta. Not a word had reached his wife and son since then, and it was generally believed that it had gone to the bottom of the sea. Mrs. Rushton regarded herself as a widow, and Robert, entering the factory, took upon himself the support of the family. He was now able to earn six dollars a week, and this, with his mother's earnings in braiding straw for a hat manufacturer in a neighboring town, supported them, though they were unable to lay up anything. The price of a term at the writing school was so small that Robert thought he could indulge himself in it, feeling that a good handwriting was a valuable acquisition, and might hereafter procure him employment in some business house. For the present, he could not do better than to retain his place in the factory.
Robert was up at six the next morning. He spent half an hour in sawing and splitting wood enough to last his mother through the day, and then entered the kitchen, where breakfast was ready.
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"I am a factory boy, I acknowledge, and am not ashamed to acknowledge it. Is this all you have to say to me? If so, I will pass on, as I am in haste."
"I have something else to say to you. You were impudent to me last evening."
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