The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
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Trollope Anthony. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
CHAPTER I. PREFACE. BY ONE OF THE FIRM
CHAPTER II. THE EARLY HISTORY OF OUR MR. BROWN, WITH SOME FEW WORDS OF MR. JONES
CHAPTER III. THE EARLY HISTORY OF MR. ROBINSON
CHAPTER IV. NINE TIMES NINE IS EIGHTY-ONE. SHOWING HOW BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON SELECTED THEIR HOUSE OF BUSINESS
CHAPTER V. THE DIVISION OF LABOUR
CHAPTER VI. IT IS OUR OPENING DAY
CHAPTER VII. MISS BROWN PLEADS HER OWN CASE, AND MR. ROBINSON WALKS ON BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE
CHAPTER VIII. MR. BRISKET THINKS HE SEES HIS WAY, AND MR. ROBINSON AGAIN WALKS ON BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE
CHAPTER IX. SHOWING HOW MR. ROBINSON WAS EMPLOYED. ON THE OPENING DAY
CHAPTER X. SHOWING HOW THE FIRM INVENTED A NEW SHIRT
CHAPTER XI. JOHNSON OF MANCHESTER
CHAPTER XII. SAMSON AND DELILAH
CHAPTER XIII. THE WISDOM OF POPPINS
CHAPTER XIV. MISTRESS MORONY
CHAPTER XV. MISS BROWN NAMES THE DAY
CHAPTER XVI. SHOWING HOW ROBINSON WALKED UPON ROSES
CHAPTER XVII. A TEA-PARTY IN BISHOPSGATE STREET
CHAPTER XVIII. AN EVENING AT THE "GOOSE AND GRIDIRON."
CHAPTER XIX. GEORGE ROBINSON'S MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XX. SHOWING HOW MR. BRISKET DIDN'T SEE HIS WAY
CHAPTER XXI. MR. BROWN IS TAKEN ILL
CHAPTER XXII. WASTEFUL AND IMPETUOUS SALE
CHAPTER XXIII. FAREWELL
CHAPTER XXIV. GEORGE ROBINSON'S DREAM
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O Commerce, how wonderful are thy ways, how vast thy power, how invisible thy dominion! Who can restrain thee and forbid thy further progress? Kings are but as infants in thy hands, and emperors, despotic in all else, are bound to obey thee! Thou civilizest, hast civilized, and wilt civilize. Civilization is thy mission, and man's welfare thine appointed charge. The nation that most warmly fosters thee shall ever be the greatest in the earth; and without thee no nation shall endure for a day. Thou art our Alpha and our Omega, our beginning and our end; the marrow of our bones, the salt of our life, the sap of our branches, the corner-stone of our temple, the rock of our foundation. We are built on thee, and for thee, and with thee. To worship thee should be man's chiefest care, to know thy hidden ways his chosen study.
One maxim hast thou, O Commerce, great and true and profitable above all others; – one law which thy votaries should never transgress. "Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest." May those divine words be ever found engraved on the hearts of Brown, Jones, and Robinson!
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"Then let it be haberdashery," said Mr. Brown, with a sigh. And so that was settled.
"Oh, bother!" said Miss Twizzle. "I know nothing about that. He's got a business, and whoever marries Brisket won't have to look for a bed to sleep on. But there's a hitch about the money."
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