Joshua Marvel
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Farjeon Benjamin Leopold. Joshua Marvel
CHAPTER I. CONCERNING CERTAIN FAMILY CONVERSATIONS AND THEIR RESULT
CHAPTER II. SHOWING HOW A PASSION FOR PUNCH AND JUDY MAY LEAD TO DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER III. LIFE AND DEATH OF GOLDEN CLOUD
CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH DAN GETS WILD NOTIONS INTO HIS HEAD, AND MAKES SOME VERY BOYISH EXPERIMENTS
CHAPTER V. JOSHUA MAKES UP HIS MIND TO GO TO SEA
CHAPTER VI. THE ACTOR AND HIS DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VII. EXPLAINS WHY PRAISEWORTHY MEDDLER REMAINED A BACHELOR
CHAPTER VIII. A HAPPY HOLIDAY
CHAPTER IX. MINNIE AND HER SHELL
CHAPTER X. GOODBY
CHAPTER XI. WHAT OCCURRED AFTER JOSHUA'S DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XII. DAN ENTERS INTO BUSINESS
CHAPTER XIII. DAN DECLARES THAT IT IS LIKE A ROMANCE
CHAPTER XIV. THE STRANGE COURSES OF LOVE
CHAPTER XV. SOLOMON FEWSTER GIVES THE LASCAR A FLOWER
CHAPTER XVI. CHRISTMAS-EVE AT HOME
CHAPTER XVII. THE DOG AND HIS MASTER
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RIVALRY OF LOVE
CHAPTER XIX. SUNSHINE AND CLOUD
CHAPTER XX. THE ONLY DUTY THAT MINNIE CAN UNDERSTAND
CHAPTER XXI. LOVE'S SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XXII. NEVER TO RETURN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE OLD SAILOR SETS MATTERS STRAIGHT
CHAPTER XXIV. FALSE FRIEND OR TRUE?
CHAPTER XXV. THE DEAD WITNESS
CHAPTER XXVI. BASIL KINDRED'S DIARY
CHAPTER XXVII. WHAT THE NEIGHBORS THINK OF IT
CHAPTER XXVIII. ON BOARD THE "MERRY ANDREW."
CHAPTER XXIX. THE WRECK OF THE "MERRY ANDREW."
CHAPTER XXX. JOSHUA IS PROMOTED
CHAPTER XXXI. ON THE RAFT
CHAPTER XXXII. SAVED FROM THE SEA
CHAPTER XXXIII. ON THE ROCKS
CHAPTER XXXIV. BITTER REVELATIONS
CHAPTER XXXV. SURPRISED BY SAVAGES
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE POWER OF MUSIC
CHAPTER XXXVII. HARSH JUDGMENTS
CHAPTER XXVIII. MR. MARVEL SHAKES THE DUST FROM HIS FEET
CHAPTER XXXIX. SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR
CHAPTER XL. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
CHAPTER XLI. JOSHUA AND THE OLD WIZARD
CHAPTER XLII. FAITHFUL HEARTS
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There are few boys in the world who are without their boy-friends whom they worship, or by whom they are worshipped, with a love far surpassing in its unselfishness the love of maturer years. The memory of times that are gone is too often blurred by waves of sorrowful circumstance. Our lives are like old pictures; the canvas grows wrinkled, and the accumulated dust of years lies heavy upon figures that once were bright and fair. But neither dust nor wrinkles can obliterate the memory of the love we bore to the boy-friend with whom we used to wander in fields that were greener, beneath skies that were bluer, than fields and skies are now.
Cannot you and I remember the time when we used to stroll into the country with our boy-friend, and, with arms thrown lovingly around each other's neck, indulge in day-dreams not the less sweet because they were never to be realized? And how, when we had built our castles, and were looking at them in the clouds, with our hearts filled with joyful fancies, we wandered in silence down the shady lane, sweet with the scent of the flowering May that shut us out from view on either side; and across the field with its luxuriant grass up to our ankles with everywhere the daisy peeping out to watch us as we passed; and over the heath where the golden gorse was blushing with joy; and down the narrow path to the well which shrunk from public observation at the bottom of a flight of cool stone steps, hewn out by the monks of a cloister which should have been hard by, but wasn't, having been destroyed in a bloody battle which took place once upon a time?
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Dan had good reason for speaking in the way he did of his body, for it distressed him very much. Soon after the death of Golden Cloud, he grew so weak and ill that he was confined to his bed. But his mind scarcely seemed to be affected by his bodily ills, and his cheerfulness never deserted him. He had his dear winged companions brought to his bedroom, and they hopped about his bed as contentedly as could be. And there he played with them and took delight in them; and, as he hearkened to their chirrupings, and looked at their pretty forms, a sweet pleasure was in his eyes, a sweet pleasure was in his heart. And this pleasure was enhanced by the presence of Joshua, who spent a great deal of time with his sick friend.
The tender love that existed between the lads was undefiled by a single selfish act or thought. They were one in sympathy and sentiment. Joshua was Dan's almost only companion during his illness. Dan's mother tended him and gave him his physic, which could not do him any good, the doctor said; but Mrs. Taylor's household duties and responsibilities occupied nearly the whole of her time; she could not afford to keep a servant, and she had all the kitchen-work to do. Ellen-Dan's twin-sister and Joshua's quondam sweetheart-was often in the room; but, young as she was, she was already being employed about the house assisting her mother. She scrubbed the floors and washed the clothes; and, although she was so little that she had to stand on a chair in the tiny yard to hang the clothes on the line, she was as proud of her work, and took as much pleasure in it, as if she were a grown woman, who had been properly brought up. Notwithstanding the onerous nature of her duties, she managed to spend half an hour now and again with Josh and Dan, and would sit quite still listening to the conversation. Her presence in the room was pleasing to the boy-friends, for Ellen was as modest and tidy a little girl as could be met with in a day's walk.
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