Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
RISING IN THE WORLD;
A Tale for the Rich and Poor.
BY T. S. ARTHUR,
AUTHOR OF "KEEPING UP APPEARANCES,"
"RICHES HAVE WINGS," ETC., ETC.
NEW EDITION.
NEW YORK:
HUBBARD & BURGESS,
133 WILLIAM STREET.
1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847,
BY BAKER & SCRIBNER,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST GREAT ERROR
CHAPTER V. RIGHT AND WRONG PRINCIPLES
CHAPTER VI. GENEROUS SELF-DEVOTION
CHAPTER VII. ACTING FROM PRINCIPLE
CHAPTER VIII. AN INIQUITOUS SCHEME
CHAPTER IX. A MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION
CHAPTER XI. A BIT OF RETALIATION
CHAPTER XII. BASENESS OF CHARACTER
CHAPTER XIII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
CHAPTER XIV. RISING TO A TRUE LEVEL
CHAPTER XV. PREJUDICES REMOVED
CHAPTER XVI. AN UPWARD MOVEMENT
CHAPTER XVIII. A NEW ASPECT OF AFFAIRS
RISING IN THE WORLD.
CHAPTER I.
THE TWO FRIENDS.
Two young men of nearly equal abilities, left college at the sametime. Their names were Lawrence Dunbar and Lloyd Hudson. Mr. Dunbar,the father of Lawrence, was a retail grocer in Philadelphia. Hehad, in early life, received but few educational advantages; and,in consequence thereof, saw many opportunities for rising above hiscondition, pass unimproved. Fully sensible of the advanced positionwhich a liberal education gives to every man, he determined that noexpense, in his power to meet, should be spared, in order to have hisson thoroughly furnished in everything required to place him side byside in the race for wealth and distinction with the best in the land.To this end, he used the utmost economy in his family, in order that hemight be able to send his son to college. In doing this, he was unjustto the sisters of Lawrence; who were neither taught music nor dancing,nor, in fact, anything for which the father had to pay a single dollar.The advan