Excerpts from the Book 'Cast Upon The Breakers':

... dollars. Until two years since I kept it intact but then began a series of reverses in which my own fortune was swallowed up. In the hope of relieving ...
... entered the cars. He obtained a place next to a stout man dressed in a pepper and salt suit. Is this seat engaged. asked Rodney. Yes-to you, ...
... to the boarding house, and fortunately found a good room vacant on the third floor. Mr. Woods went out in the evening to make a call, but Rodney was ...
... I had better give up the room, and find cheaper accommodations. I am getting near the end of my money.. You are right. It is best to be prudent.. That ...
... exclaimed Mr. Mulgrave, putting up his eyeglass, and surveying Rodney as if he were a curious specimen. You don't happen to know anything ...
... may be forty or fifty dollars, but it isn't on that account I should have regretted losing it. It contained a receipt for a thousand dollars ...
... a tone of hesitation, while you look like a perfect gentleman, I don't know you, and I am not sure whether, in justice to Mr. Ropes, I ought to admit ...
... is.. Can't you get another place. asked Jasper curiously. I might if I could get a recommendation, but probably Mr. Goodnow wouldn't give me ...
... it will only be fair for me to pay the whole rent.. No, Rodney, you mustn't do that.. I shall insist upon it, Mike. You would do the same ...
... answered Arthur in some surprise. Jasper's eyes gleamed with sudden intelligence. So this was Rodney's secret, and this was the position for which ...
... afterward when Rodney went up to meet his pupil, Mr. Sargent handed him a letter. Here is something that concerns you, Rodney, he said. It doesn't ...
... may not be polished, but you are certainly smart, as you have shown by accumulating a fortune.. But I am not as rich as you.. Perhaps not, but ...
... wonder if he might be worth a hundred thousand.. You don't say. Why, he beat Squire Sheldon.. Oh, yes, Squire Sheldon wouldn't ...
... wonder if by the time you get as old as I am you might be worth five thousand dollars.. I hope so, answered Mr. Pettigrew demurely. By ...
... that.. When a man's interest is concerned religion has to stand to one side with some people.. It was in a pleasant frame of mind that Squire ...
... certainly is no disappointment to me.. Nor to me. The little time I have left I can use more pleasantly than in going to see the squire. ...
... that you had money concealed there.. I don't think I ever mentioned it.. It seems we have a thief among us, said Jefferson, and almost unconsciously ...
... made me an outlaw you mean to ask.. Yes.. My nature, I suppose. I wasn't cut out for sober, humdrum life.. Don't you think you ...
... at not finding him. One of the miners in roaming about had come upon the animal, and knowing him to be Jefferson Pettigrew's property, untied him and ...
... what to do. What are you going to do, Caesar. asked Pettigrew. Are you going to stay here.. I don't know, massa. I don't want to lib here. I'm ...