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The Wall Street Girl

by Frederick Orin Bartlett (1876–1945)

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  • 4 hours to read
  • 35 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"The Wall Street Girl" by Frederick Orin Bartlett is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Donald Pendleton, a young man who has recently lost his father and is navigating life in New York City under the shadow of family expectations and financial constraints. As he deals with the realities of adult responsibilities, his journey explores themes of love, ambition, and social status. The opening of the novel introduces Donald Pendleton as he meets with his father's lawyer, Jonas Barton, to discuss the terms of his father's will. Despite his initial expectations of inheriting substantial wealth, he discovers that his father has left him the family home but no funds for living expenses, leading to a stark realization of his new reality. The narrative then unfolds to depict Don's attempts to adjust to his newfound independence, while also dealing with his engagement to Frances Stuyvesant and pondering the practicalities of his financial situation. Along the way, he encounters Miss Winthrop, a diligent stenographer, and begins to form a connection that may complicate his already tumultuous life.

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Chapter I

DON RECEIVES A JOLT

Before beginning to read the interesting document in front of him, Jonas Barton, senior member of Barton & Saltonstall, paused to clean his glasses rather carefully, in order to gain sufficient time to study for a moment the tall, good-looking young man who waited indifferently on the other side of the desk. He had not seen his late client's son since the latter had entered college—a black-haired, black-eyed lad of seventeen, impulsive in manner and speech. The intervening four years had tempered him a good deal. Yet, the Pendleton characteristics were all there—the square jaw, the rather large, firm mouth, the thin nose, the keen eyes. They were all there, but each a trifle subdued: the square jaw not quite so square as the father's, the mouth not quite so large, the nose so sharp, or the eyes so keen. On the other hand, there was a certain fineness that the father had lacked.

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Contents

Show all 35 chapters
  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter IX
  10. Chapter X
  11. Chapter XI
  12. Chapter XII
  13. Chapter XIII
  14. Chapter XIV
  15. Chapter XV
  16. Chapter XVI
  17. Chapter XVII
  18. Chapter XVIII
  19. Chapter XIX
  20. Chapter XX
  21. Chapter XXI
  22. Chapter XXII
  23. Chapter XXIII
  24. Chapter XXIV
  25. Chapter XXV
  26. Chapter XXVI
  27. Chapter XXVII
  28. Chapter XXVIII
  29. Chapter XXIX
  30. Chapter XXX
  31. Chapter XXXI
  32. Chapter XXXII
  33. Chapter XXXIII
  34. Chapter XXXIV
  35. Chapter XXXV: "Home, John"

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This free edition of The Wall Street Girl by Frederick Orin Bartlett comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #29654, released 2009-08-10. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Novels, American Literature.

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