Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed. RISING IN THE WORLD; A Tale for the Rich and Poor. BY T. S. ARTHUR, AUTHOR OF "KEEPING UP APPEARANCES," "RICHES HAVE WINGS," ETC., ETC. NEW EDITION. NEW YORK: HUBBARD & BURGESS, 133 WILLIAM STREET. 1859. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, BY BAKER & SCRIBNER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE TWO FRIENDS CHAPTER II. BEGINNING TO RISE CHAPTER III. MORAL DECLENSION CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST GREAT ERROR CHAPTER V. RIGHT AND WRONG PRINCIPLES CHAPTER VI. GENEROUS SELF-DEVOTION CHAPTER VII. ACTING FROM PRINCIPLE CHAPTER VIII. AN INIQUITOUS SCHEME CHAPTER IX. A MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION CHAPTER X. PERFECTLY LEGAL CHAPTER XI. A BIT OF RETALIATION CHAPTER XII. BASENESS OF CHARACTER CHAPTER XIII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING CHAPTER XIV. RISING TO A TRUE LEVEL CHAPTER XV. PREJUDICES REMOVED CHAPTER XVI. AN UPWARD MOVEMENT CHAPTER XVII. BITTER FRUITS CHAPTER XVIII. A NEW ASPECT OF AFFAIRS CHAPTER XIX. CONTRASTS CHAPTER XX. CONCLUSION RISING IN THE WORLD. CHAPTER I. THE TWO FRIENDS. Two young men of nearly equal abilities, left college at the same time. Their names were Lawrence Dunbar and Lloyd Hudson. Mr. Dunbar, the father of Lawrence, was a retail grocer in Philadelphia. He had, in early life, received but few educational advantages; and, in consequence thereof, saw many opportunities for rising above his condition, pass unimproved. Fully sensible of the advanced position which a liberal education gives to every man, he determined that no expense, in his power to meet, should be spared, in order to have his son thoroughly furnished in everything required to place him side by side in the race for wealth and distinction with the best in the land. To this end, he used the utmost economy in his family, in order that he might be able to send his son to college. In doing this, he was unjust to the sisters of Lawrence; who were neither taught music nor dancing, nor, in fact, anything for which the father had to pay a single dollar. The advantages afforded by the public schools were deemed ample for them. Upon the son, Mr. Dunbar lavished all that he could spare, as an investment that would pay well at some future day.