{"product_id":"2940013265431","title":"RUFUS AND ROSE","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNEW PLANS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"So this is to be your first day in Wall Street, Rufus,\" said Miss\u003cbr\u003eManning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes,\" said Rufus, \"I've retired from the newspaper business on a large\u003cbr\u003efortune, and now I'm going into business in Wall Street just to occupy\u003cbr\u003emy time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last speaker was a stout, well-grown boy of fifteen, with a pleasant\u003cbr\u003eface, calculated to inspire confidence. He looked manly and\u003cbr\u003eself-reliant, and firm of purpose. For years he had been a newsboy,\u003cbr\u003eplying his trade in the streets of New York, and by his shrewdness, and\u003cbr\u003ea certain ready wit, joined with attention to business, he had met with\u003cbr\u003ebetter success than most of his class. He had been a leader among them,\u003cbr\u003eand had received the name of \"Rough and Ready,\" suggested in part, no\u003cbr\u003edoubt, by his name, Rufus; but the appellation described not inaptly his\u003cbr\u003eprominent traits. He understood thoroughly how to take care of himself,\u003cbr\u003eand thought it no hardship, that, at an age when most boys are tenderly\u003cbr\u003ecared for, he was sent out into the streets to shift for himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis mother had been dead for some time. His step-father, James Martin,\u003cbr\u003ewas a drunkard, and he had been compelled to take away his little sister\u003cbr\u003eRose from the miserable home in which he had kept her, and had\u003cbr\u003eundertaken to support her, as well as himself. He had been fortunate\u003cbr\u003eenough to obtain a home for her with Miss Manning, a poor seamstress,\u003cbr\u003ewhom he paid for her services in taking care of Rose. His step-father,\u003cbr\u003ein order to thwart and torment him, had stolen the little girl away, and\u003cbr\u003ekept her in Brooklyn for a while, until Rufus got a clue to her\u003cbr\u003ewhereabouts, and succeeded in getting her back. At the time when the\u003cbr\u003estory opens, he had just recovered her, and having been fortunate\u003cbr\u003eenough to render an important service to Mr. Turner, a Wall Street\u003cbr\u003ebroker, was on this Monday morning to enter his office, at a salary of\u003cbr\u003eeight dollars a week.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis sketch of the newsboy's earlier history is given for the benefit of\u003cbr\u003ethose who have not read the book called \"Rough and Ready,\" in which it\u003cbr\u003eis related at length. It is necessary to add that Rufus was in some\u003cbr\u003esense a capitalist, having five hundred dollars deposited in a\u003cbr\u003esavings-bank to his credit. Of this sum, he had found three hundred one\u003cbr\u003eday, which, as no claimant ever appeared for it, he had been justified\u003cbr\u003ein appropriating to his own use. The remainder had been given him by Mr.\u003cbr\u003eTurner, in partial acknowledgment of the service before referred to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Your new life will seem strange to you at first, Rufus,\" said Miss\u003cbr\u003eManning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, it does already. When I woke up this morning, I was going to jump\u003cbr\u003eout of bed in a hurry, thinking I must go round to Nassau Street to get\u003cbr\u003emy papers. Then all at once I thought that I'd given up being a newsboy.\u003cbr\u003eBut it seemed queer.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I didn't know but you'd gone back to your old business,\" said the\u003cbr\u003eseamstress, pointing to a paper in his hand.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082463396080,"sku":"2940013265431","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013265431_p0.jpg?v=1763590267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013265431","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}