Better Days

About this eBook

Author

Fitch, Anna M. (Anna Mariska), 1840-1904

Title

Better days; or, A Millionaire of To-morrow

Original Publication

United States: Better Days Publishing Co.,1891.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

West (U.S.) -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67835

Release Date

April 15, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BETTER DAYS: OR, A Millionaire of To-morrow.
2. 2.CHAPTER I. “The earth trembled underneath their feet.”
3. 3.CHAPTER II. “The light that shone when hope was born.”
4. 4.CHAPTER III. “The storm is abroad in the mountains.”
5. 5.CHAPTER IV. “Gold is the strength of the world.”
6. 6.CHAPTER V. “The rich man’s joys increase the poor’s decay.”
7. 7.CHAPTER VI. “No man can tell what he does not know.”
8. 8.CHAPTER VII. “Sick to the soul.”
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. “Conceal what we impart.”
10. 10.CHAPTER IX. “And then hid the key in a bundle of letters.” — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From Mrs. Perces Thornton to the Baroness Von Eulaw. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Miss Fanny Fielding, Denver, Colorado. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton.
11. 11.CHAPTER X. “Lo! the poor Indian.”
12. 12.CHAPTER XI. “It is only mirage.”
13. 13.CHAPTER XII. “Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.”
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII. “Hopeless grief is passionless.”
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV. “In the name of God, take heed.”
16. 16.CHAPTER XV. “Is this law? Aye, marry is it?”
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI. “The conscience of well doing is an ample reward.” — [From the New York World , July 15, 1895.] — [From the New York Times , July 17, 1895.] — [From the New York Socialist , July 19, 1895.]
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII. “Plans of mice and men gang aft aglee.”
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII. “Uncle Sam to the rescue!”
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX. “The arms are fair when borne with just intent.”
21. 21.CHAPTER XX. “These are things which might be done.”
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI. “Their country’s wealth, our mightier misers drain.”
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII. “The product of ill-mated marriages.” — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From Mrs. Perces Thornton to the Baroness Von Eulaw. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Mrs. Perces Thornton. — From the Baroness Von Eulaw to Professor John Thornton.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII. “Happy peace and goodly government.”
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV. “A hospitable gate unbarred to all.”
26. 26.CHAPTER XXV. “No more shall nation against nation rise.”
27. 27.CHAPTER XXVI. “’Tis less to conquer than to make wars cease.”
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVII. “As a guide my umpire conscience.”
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVIII. “All’s well that ends well.”

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