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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: will bring you into your inheritance. When will you dine with me?" " I have an engagement to-morrow evening; the next evening- I am at your service." " Good I shall call for you at six." And so the two gentlemen parted, each with a growing interest in the other. CHAPTER VI. A FOOL AND HIS MONEY. The Hendersons lived in one of those old-fashioned streets on the west side of town, which have been left far behind by the upward march of fashion, but have not, as yet, yielded to the encroachments of business, nor been given up to the gradual deterioration that seizes hold of tenement blocks. Forty years ago, these solid and really comfortable brick houses were occupied by the same class relatively, that now live in the brownstone fronts that stretch northward from Madison Square to Central Park. The street in question was very quiet, and extremely respectable. It is not necessary to mention the precise location, but it was some distance south from Union Square, and to the westward of Broadway. It was owned by Mrs. Henderson; and now that their cash capital had been sunk by Herbert, it represented the entire wealth of the family. The mother and daughters were seated in die front room of the first floor?a room extending the whole length of the building, divided in the centre by folding doors, which were always open. It was the parlor, so-called, but was also the sitting-room; and a very pleasant and cheery room it was. The furniture was rich, but faded with the daily use that takes from lustre and adds to comfort. The chairs were wide and deep, and the lounges inviting. Mrs. Henderson was a small woman with a fair and quiet face, and perfectly white hair. She sat in a rocking-chair, knitting placidly, and was a picture of kindly and beautiful old age. Th...