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His Family
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Title: His Family
Author: Ernest Poole
Release Date: December 20, 2004 [EBook #14396] [Date last updated: April 8, 2005]
Language: English
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HIS FAMILY
BY ERNEST POOLE AUTHOR OF "THE HARBOR"
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 1917
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COPYRIGHT, 1917 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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TO M.A.
HIS FAMILY
CHAPTER I
He was thinking of the town he had known. Not of old New York--he had heard of that from old, old men when he himself had still been young and had smiled at their garrulity. He was thinking of a young New York, the mighty throbbing city to which he had come long ago as a lad from the New Hampshire mou