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قراءة كتاب Masterman and Son
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Masterman and Son
by
W. J. DAWSON
Author of "A Prophet in Babylon," etc.
NEW YORK —— CHICAGO —— TORONTO
Fleming H. Revell Company
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Copyright, 1909, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond St., W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
CONTENTS
PART ONE
ARCHIBOLD MASTERMAN
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | THE MASTER-BUILDER |
| II. | A DISCUSSION |
| III. | THE BIG STRONG BEAST |
| IV. | MRS. BUNDY |
| V. | THE MAGIC NIGHT |
| VI. | YOUNG LOVE |
| VII. | ENTER SCALES |
| VIII. | THE ACCUSATION |
| IX. | THE CONTEST |
| X. | THE FAREWELL |
PART TWO
THE AMERICAN MADONNA
| XI. | NEW YORK |
| XII. | MR. WILBUR MEREDITH LEGION |
| XIII. | ADVENTURES OF AN INCOMPETENT |
| XIV. | HE FINDS A FRIEND |
| XV. | THE MILLIONAIRE |
| XVI. | KOOTENAY |
| XVII. | THE NEW LIFE |
PART THREE
FATHER AND SON
| XVIII. | THE AMALGAMATED BRICK CO. |
| XIX. | THE FEAR |
| XX. | THE RETURN |
| XXI. | THE VERDICT |
| XXII. | MRS. BUNDY PHILOSOPHISES |
| XXIII. | THE LAST HOME |
| XXIV. | THE NEW WORLD |
PART ONE
ARCHIBOLD MASTERMAN
I
THE MASTER-BUILDER
Archibold Masterman, tall, heavily-built, muscular, and on the wrong side of fifty, was universally esteemed an excellent specimen of that dubious product of modern commerce, the self-made man. At twenty he was a day-labourer, at thirty a jobbing builder, at forty a contractor in a large way of business. At that point may be dated the beginning of his social efflorescence. It was then that he began to wear broadcloth on week-days, and insisted on a fresh shirt every other day. Hitherto careless of his appearance, he now took a quiet pride in clothes, and discovered the uses of the manicure. A little later he discovered that a man's