On the Stairs

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Henry Blake Fuller. On the Stairs

On the Stairs

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PART I

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PART II

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PART III

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PART IV

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PART V

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PART VI

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PART VII

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PART VIII

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Henry Blake Fuller

Published by Good Press, 2019

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VI

In another room, somewhere on the first floor, I had a glimpse of his father. I remember him as a sedate man who did not insist. If he set a boy right, it was done but verbally; the boy was left to see the justness of the point and to act on it for himself. I gathered, later, that James Prince had done little, unaided, for himself; whatever he had accomplished had been in conjunction with other men—with his father, particularly; and when his father died, a few years later, he was the chief heir—and he never added much to what he had received. To him fell the property—and its worries. The worries, I surmise, were the greater part of it all. Everything has to be paid for, and James Prince's easily gained success was paid for, through the ensuing years, with considerable anxieties and perturbations.

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