Horatio Alger

“ Jonas observed on one occasion, "you've improved ever so much since you came here. You're a good deal better natured than you were."
Mrs. Brent smiled, but she did not care to take her son into her confidence.
"Here I have no cares to trouble me," she said. "I live here in a way that suits me."
But when they were about starting for Chicago, Mrs. Brent felt herself becoming unaccountably depressed.
"Jonas," she said, "I am sorry we are going to Chicago." ”

“ Brent, will you accompany us?"
"With pleasure, Mr. Granville," answered that lady. "It is not dull here for me, still I shall no doubt enjoy a little excitement. At any rate, I shall be best pleased to be where you and your son are." ”

“ Jonas had preferred a petition to go to Chicago for a week, in order to attend some of the amusements there to be enjoyed, alleging that it was awfully dull in the country.
Mr. Granville was inclined to be very indulgent, to make up for the long years in which he had been compelled practically to desert his son. The petition therefore received favor.
"It is only natural that you should wish to see something of the city, my son," he said. "I will grant your request. We will go to Chicago, and remain a week at the Palmer House. Mrs. ”