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THE LITTLE SHOP AT NEW ROMNEY §1 Until he was nearly arrived at adolescence it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he was under the care of an aunt and uncle instead of having a father and …
THE EMPORIUM §1 When Kipps left New Romney, with a small yellow tin box, a still smaller portmanteau, a new umbrella, and a keepsake half-sixpence, to become a draper, he was a youngster of fourteen,…
THE WOOD-CARVING CLASS §1 Though these services to Venus Epipontia, the seaside Venus, and these studies in the art of dress, did much to distract his thoughts and mitigate his earlier miseries, it w…
CHITTERLOW §1 The hour of the class on the following Thursday found Kipps in a state of nearly incredible despondency. He was sitting with his eyes on the reading room clock, his chin resting on his …
"SWAPPED" §1 He awoke on the thoroughly comfortable sofa that had had all its springs removed, and although he had certainly not been intoxicated, he awoke with what Chitterlow pronounced t…
THE UNEXPECTED §1 Now in the slack of that same day, after the midday dinner and before the coming of the afternoon customers, this disastrous Chitterlow descended upon Kipps with the most amazing co…
THE NEW CONDITIONS §1 There comes a gentlemanly figure into these events and for a space takes a leading part therein, a Good Influence, a refined and amiable figure, Mr. Chester Coote. You must figu…
THE WALSHINGHAMS §1 The Cootes live in a little house in Bouverie Square with a tangle of Virginia creeper up the verandah. Kipps had been troubled in his mind about knocking double or single—it is t…
ENGAGED §1 Within two months, within a matter of three and fifty days, Kipps had clambered to the battlements of Heart's Desire. It all became possible by the Walshinghams—it would seem at Coote…
THE BICYCLE MANUFACTURER §1 So Kipps embarked upon his engagement, steeled himself to the high enterprise of marrying above his breeding. The next morning found him dressing with a certain quiet seve…
