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Edith Burnet
April
1871
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
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Uniform with this Volume.
THE GATES AJAR.
1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
MEN, WOMEN, AND GHOSTS.
1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
HEDGED IN.
1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Publishers,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.,
124 Tremont Street, Boston.
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THE
SILENT PARTNER.
BY
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS,
AUTHOR OF “THE GATES AJAR,” “HEDGED IN,” ETC.
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and
take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh
and consider.”
Bacon.
BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW & CO.
1871.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.
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NOTE.
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IN the compilation of the facts which go to
form this fiction, it seems desirable to say
that I believe I have neither overlooked nor
libelled those intelligent manufacturers who have
expended much Christian ingenuity, with much
remarkable success, in ameliorating the condition
of factory operatives, and in blunting the edge of
those misapprehensions and disaffections which
exist between labor and capital, between employer
and employed, between ease and toil,
between millions and mills, the world over.
Had Christian ingenuity been generally synonymous
with the conduct of manufacturing corporations,
I should have found no occasion for
the writing of this book.
I believe that a wide-spread ignorance exists
among us regarding the abuses of our factory
system, more especially, but not exclusively, as
exhibited in many of the country mills.
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I desire it to be understood that every alarming
sign and every painful statement which I have
given in these pages concerning the condition
of the manufacturing districts could be matched
with far less cheerful reading, and with far more
pungent perplexities, from the pages of the Reports
of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics
of Labor, to which, with other documents of a
kindred nature, and to the personal assistance
of friends who have “testified that they have
seen,” I am deeply in debt for the ribs of my
story.
E. S. P.
Andover, December, 1870.
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
Across the Gulf 9
CHAPTER II.
The Slippery Path 34
CHAPTER III.
A Game of Chess 55
CHAPTER IV.
The Stone House 70
CHAPTER V.
Bub Mell 98
CHAPTER VI.
Mouldings and Bricks 131
CHAPTER VII.
Checkmate! 158
CHAPTER VIII.
A Troublesome Character 166
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CHAPTER IX.
A Fancy Case 185
CHAPTER X.
Economical 203
CHAPTER XI.
Going into Society 222
CHAPTER XII.
Maple Leaves 243
CHAPTER XIII.
A Feverish Patient 264
CHAPTER XIV.
Swept and Garnished 279
CHAPTER XV.
A Preacher and a Sermon 291
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 [1871], The silent partner. (James R. Osgood and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf476T].