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The Romance and Tragedy

Chapter 7 THE COMING OF THE STORK.

Word Count: 1059    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

knew that if my monthly earnings were insufficient to pay my expenses, I s

ort of mine to have matters there pleasant and comf

t I did not know the magnif

smiles, and as soon as dinner was over, in our own room, with my arms

uraged me, always asserting that everything would come

h of November ou

ight I personally could swear to, and what sweet mu

tted to enter the room, an

, was the same sweet smile and an expression of devotion and love eternal. I looked at the boy, the new r

heir place in history, but the heroism of a woman in ordinary life, in tri

ur mothers!

r normal state of health and th

hard winter, and with the burden of the household on my shoulders had only just succeeded, by the utmost p

friend, the son of a man of some means, approached me on the subject of

ling to buy him an interest in my business, I might get efficient aid to my efforts and at the same time get a cash surplus to relieve my mind of financial wo

ider the matter was the desire of my

had our boy we felt anxious to set up a modest little establishment of our o

oon as his son Thomas arrived from Europe I was to take him into partners

again came down and a new one we

ank my mind was again at ease and we

a few blocks from my mother's, for the summer at a very low rent.

atisfied to board. We were fortunate in getting a good maid, the boy kept well, we had a cool s

r expenditures, but we lived wel

vely a three-story and basement house, one of a new row in

nts belonged to us gave us a sense of proprietorship th

the furnishings and felt very happy in

ran smoothly, and although we already began to talk of the day when we should ow

rough the usual category of children's diseases, had I been really ill. I always had suffered to some extent with neuralgic headaches, inher

sing and petting of my wife that the pain brought its own recompense

k recurring at shorter intervals and each time seemingly more severe. I stood it throu

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1 Chapter 1 THE FIRST ROUND OF THE LADDER2 Chapter 2 I MEET MY AFFINITY3 Chapter 3 A CO-PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED4 Chapter 4 AND THE ANSWER WAS YES 5 Chapter 5 WEDDING BELLS6 Chapter 6 THE FIRST REVERSE OF FORTUNE.7 Chapter 7 THE COMING OF THE STORK.8 Chapter 8 THE NEW PARTNER.9 Chapter 9 SUBURBAN LIFE.10 Chapter 10 MY PARTNER RETIRES11 Chapter 11 A YEAR OF SUNSHINE12 Chapter 12 AN IDEAL LIFE13 Chapter 13 PROSPEROUS DAYS14 Chapter 14 NEAR THE DARK VALLEY15 Chapter 15 A SUCCESSFUL MANEUVER16 Chapter 16 REDSTONE 17 Chapter 17 OUR NEIGHBORS18 Chapter 18 AN UNEVENTFUL YEAR19 Chapter 19 THE STREAM BROADENS20 Chapter 20 RETROGRESSION21 Chapter 21 THE DAM GIVES WAY22 Chapter 22 THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM23 Chapter 23 A FEW WEAK FRENCH SPECULATORS 24 Chapter 24 EXCITING TIMES25 Chapter 25 COME AND DANCE IN THE BARN 26 Chapter 26 AN IMPORTER AND DEALER27 Chapter 27 SAD HEARTS AT KNOLLWOOD28 Chapter 28 NEW FACES29 Chapter 29 A SHORT YEAR AND A MERRY ONE30 Chapter 30 A VOUCHER31 Chapter 31 TWO SIDES TO THE QUESTION32 Chapter 32 THE PANIC OF NINETY-THREE33 Chapter 33 FAREWELL TO REDSTONE 34 Chapter 34 A SUMMER ON THE SOUND35 Chapter 35 MONMOUTH BEACH36 Chapter 36 THE SHIP FOUNDERS37 Chapter 37 THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS38 Chapter 38 W. E. STOWE & CO., INCORPORATED 39 Chapter 39 THE STRUGGLE COMMENCED40 Chapter 40 THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED41 Chapter 41 THE DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN42 Chapter 42 BRIGHTER DAYS43 Chapter 43 SMOOTH SAILING INTO ROUGH WATERS44 Chapter 44 THE TYRANNY OF THE JURY LAW45 Chapter 45 BITTER TRIALS46 Chapter 46 AT THE BRINK OF THE GRAVE47 Chapter 47 AGAIN AT THE HELM48 Chapter 48 A NIGHTMARE49 Chapter 49 RETROSPECTION50 Chapter 50 A DREAM51 Chapter 51 FROM GOD AND THE KING 52 Chapter 52 A FOUNDATION PRINCIPLE