Henry Kempton (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Henry KemptonHe was a successful man, who owed his prosperity to no chance speculation, no stroke of luck, but to a lifetime of unremitting industry. The younger son of a struggling provincial solicitor, he, on his father's death, had been left at the age of seventeen to the care of his elder brother also a solicitor - who, within a month, had secured for his charge a clerkship in a Birmingham architect's office at a salary of one pound a week.For three years Josiah remained at this office, carefully setting aside the half of his salary. At the end of this time he made the acquaintance of Maria Watson, the daughter of a Birmingham grocer, to whose house Josiah had been introduced by the son Robert, a friend of a fellow-clerk.The news of this intimacy and its probable consequences was not long in reaching Josiah's brother, who wrote peremptorily forbidding the projected alliance, and expres sing indignant surprise that a brother of his could so far disgrace himself as to contemplate marriage with a grocer's daughter, he, whose family belonged to the professional, and not the trading - certainly not the retail trading classes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.