'Our Guy' or, The elder brother

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Mrs. E. E. Boyd. 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother

'Our Guy' or, The elder brother

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"OUR GUY."

CHAPTER I

NEW YEAR'S EVE

CHAPTER II

DIFFERENTLY CONSTITUTED

CHAPTER III

GUY OR CHRIST

CHAPTER IV

LITTLE PHILIP

CHAPTER V

WHAT HAPPENED ONE DAY

CHAPTER VI

DEATH—THEN LIFE

CHAPTER VII

GUY GIVES HIS VIEWS IN FULL

CHAPTER VIII

THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION

CHAPTER IX

A DAY OF PLEASURE

CHAPTER X

MISS SMITHERS COMES, AND A SURPRISE

CHAPTER XI

THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S EXCURSION

CHAPTER XII

PETE'S SLAVERY AND FREEDOM

CHAPTER XIII

REV. JOHN JAY DELIVERS HIS MESSAGE

CHAPTER XIV

"WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT."

CHAPTER XV

"BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING."

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Mrs. E. E. Boyd

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"I should like to dress better just for his sake, now that he is a lawyer," she said with a little thrill of pleasure and pride. "Of course he will have a great many friends and they will have to see us sometimes. But—" here there was a pause and a deep sigh, "O, he does not know how little we have to dress with, if we would keep out of debt. There now, Agnes is singing and I am doing I scarcely know what," she added, as her sister's voice reached her. She did not hear the words, if she had heard they would have helped her. As it was, she chided herself for beginning the year so badly and hurried down stairs to help prepare dinner. Both she and Agnes decided it must be the very best dinner they ever had, for Guy liked good things, and on school days they had to live plainly. If the pudding was not plum pudding, it would be "almost as good," and they set to work gleefully stoning the raisins and beating the eggs.

"Wouldn't it be nice if we could live this way always?" said Ruth, as she put a large raisin in her mouth.

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