id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt alger_jr-errand-719 Horatio Alger Jr. The Errand Boy; Or, How Phil Brent Won Success .epub application/epub+zip 55027 5391 93 No one was there, as Phil's first glance satisfied him, and he was disposed to hope that Mrs. Brent-he never called her mother--was out, but a thin, acid, measured voice from the sitting-room adjoining soon satisfied him that there was to be no reprieve. "Shall I tell Mrs. Brent I am going away?" Phil said to himself, "or shall I leave a note for her?" "Thank you; but I shall have money enough," answered Phil, who shrank from receiving any favor at the hands of Mrs. Brent. "I think country boys are very foolish to leave good homes in the country to seek places in the city," said Mrs. Pitkin sharply. "No doubt; I understand that," answered Mrs. Pitkin, in a tone so significant that Phil wondered whether she thought he had got into any trouble at home. "Jonas," said Mrs. Brent, bending toward her son, "if I choose to tell him that you are Philip, he won't know the difference. ./cache/alger_jr-errand-719.epub ./txt/alger_jr-errand-719.txt