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LIZZY GLENN AT WORK.
LIZZY GLENN: OR, THE TRIALS OF A SEAMSTRESS.
BYT.S. ARTHUR
AUTHOR OF "LOVE IN A COTTAGE," "LOVE IN HIGH LIFE," ETC. "Work—work—work Till the brain begins to swim; Work—work—work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream!" Hood's Song of the Shirt.
Philadelphia:
T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS,
306 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by T. B. PETERSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. Lizzy Glenn-Mrs. Gaston and her sick Child, 23
- CHAPTER II. How a Needlewoman Lives, 39
- CHAPTER III. Death of Mrs. Gaston's Child-A Mother's anguish, 54
- CHAPTER IV. Lizzy Glenn arouses the interest of a Stranger, 68
- CHAPTER V. Some of the Troubles of a Needlewoman-A Friend in Need, 75
- CHAPTER VI. Perkins' Narrative, 90
- CHAPTER VII. Henry Gaston leaves Home with Sharp, 103
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- CHAPTER VIII. Henry Gaston's Treatment by Sharp, 120
- CHAPTER IX. Lizzy Glenn finds in Mrs. Gaston an old Friend, 135
- CHAPTER X. Lizzy Glenn's Narrative to Mrs. Gaston, 144
- CHAPTER XI. Perkins anxiously seeks Lizzy Glenn, 167
- CHAPTER XII. Perkins finds in Lizzy Glenn his long lost Eugenia, 176
- THE FATHER'S DREAM, 187
- I'LL SEE ABOUT IT, 208
- HUMAN LIFE, 223
- THE SUM OF TRIFLES; OR, "A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY GAINED," 243
