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The Son of His Father
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. WHEN HE WAS A CHILD
CHAPTER II. WHEN HE WAS A CHILD (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER III. HOW HE WAS TO BEGIN LIFE
CHAPTER IV. JOHN’S CHOICE
CHAPTER V. AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VI. GRANDMAMMA
CHAPTER VII. COMRADES
CHAPTER VIII. A CALL FOR EMILY
CHAPTER IX. JOHN’S LETTER
CHAPTER X. THE REPLY
CHAPTER XI. THE SHADOW OF DEATH
CHAPTER XII. EMILY
CHAPTER XIII. WHAT THE PARISH THOUGHT
CHAPTER XIV. MR. SANDFORD’S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XV. A VISIT TO THE FOUNDRY
CHAPTER XVI. RESEARCH
CHAPTER XVII. MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER XVIII. FAREWELL
Volume 2
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. OUT IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER II. LONDON
CHAPTER III. SUSIE
CHAPTER IV. ON HIS TRIAL
CHAPTER V. BROTHER AND SISTER
CHAPTER VI. BEGINNING LIFE
CHAPTER VII. A MAN GROWN
CHAPTER VIII. A NIGHT ADVENTURE
CHAPTER IX. GOING BACK
CHAPTER X. THE WELCOME
CHAPTER XI. THE OLD HOUSE
CHAPTER XII. SUSIE
CHAPTER XIII. A NEW INFLUENCE
CHAPTER XIV. THE VITA NUOVA
CHAPTER XV. A FAMILY CONCLAVE
CHAPTER XVI. SUSIE’S SHARE
CHAPTER XVII. JOHN’S RESOLUTION
CHAPTER XVIII. A PHILOSOPHER
Volume 3
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE GREAT SCHEME
CHAPTER II. MR. SANDFORD’S SECRETARY
CHAPTER III. JOHN ON HIS TRIAL
CHAPTER IV. DEFEATED AND WRONGED
CHAPTER V. THE CULPRIT
CHAPTER VI. A CRISIS
CHAPTER VII. MRS. SANDFORD’S VIEW
CHAPTER VIII. THE CONVICT
CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST SHOCK
CHAPTER X. MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER XI. SUSIE AND HER LOVERS
CHAPTER XII. JOHN’S LETTER
CHAPTER XIII. THE DARKNESS THAT COULD BE FELT
CHAPTER XIV. THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION
CHAPTER XV. THE FATHER AND CHILDREN
CHAPTER XVI. THE GREAT SCHEME
CHAPTER XVII. ELLY’S PLEDGE
CHAPTER XVIII. A SUSPENDED SOLUTION
Mrs. Oliphant
OK Publishing, 2020
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He was the son of his grandparents, as has been said. He was like a boy who had never had either father or mother when he set out upon the active way of his life. And how he came to work in that early drama of the beginning, with all the later incidents, and how he was affected by it for good and evil, has now to be shown in the story of John Sandford, who was his father’s son, though he knew nothing of him, and did not even bear his name.
It was just at this moment that John, looking down on the table with his smiling eyes, with an undimmed boyish satisfaction in grandfather’s little jokes, contented he could scarcely call how, saw the old ‘Robinson Crusoe’ which lay there. It lay among half-a-dozen books, in no way distinguished from the others, but to John it was not like any of the others. It brought a sudden check, like the rolling up of a cloud over his mind. The light paled somehow on his face, as the sky pales when the cloud rolls up. It was not that he was afraid, or that any shadow of a coming trouble fell upon him. No, not that. He was only recalled to the far back childish life, like a faint vision which lay in the distance, like an island on the other side of the sea, half touching the line of the ocean, half drawn up into the skies. He paused for a moment in the shock of this idea, and said, half to himself,
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