Title: Adrift in New York
First published: 1900
Description: From the book:Uncle, you are not looking well to-night.      "I'm not well, Florence. I sometimes doubt if I shall ever be any better."      "Surely, uncle, you cannot mean -"      "Yes, my child, I have reason to believe that I am nearing the end."      "I cannot bear to hear you speak so, uncle," said Florence Linden, in irrepressible agitation. "You are not an old man. You are but fifty-four."      "True, Florence, but it is not years only that make a man old. Two great sorrows have embittered my life. First, the death of my dearly beloved wife, and next, the loss of my boy, Harvey."      "It is long since I have heard you refer to my cousin's loss. I thought you had become reconciled - no, I do not mean that, - I thought your regret might be less poignant."
Subjects: Fiction, Kidnapping, Orphans, Identity, Inheritance and succession, History, City and town life, Classic Literature, Juvenile literature, Youth, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life
Places: New York (N.Y.), New York (State), New York
Time periods: 19th century