City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston

The Project Gutenberg EBook of City Crimes, by Greenhorn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston Author: Greenhorn Release Date: January 7, 2009 [EBook #27732] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CITY CRIMES *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Linda Hamilton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net City Crimes; OR LIFE IN NEW YORK AND BOSTON. A VOLUME FOR EVERYBODY: BEING A MIRROR OF FASHION, A PICTURE OF POVERTY, AND A STARTLING REVELATION OF THE SECRET CRIMES OF GREAT CITIES {First published 1849} CHAPTER I A Young Gentleman of Wealth and Fashion—a noble resolve— the flatterers—the Midnight Encounter—an Adventure—the Courtezan—Temptation triumphant—how the Night was passed. 'What a happy dog I ought to be!' exclaimed Frank Sydney, as he reposed his slippered feet upon the fender, and sipped his third glass of old Madeira, one winter's evening in the year 18—, in the great city of New York. Frank might well say so; for in addition to being as handsome a fellow as one would be likely to meet in a day's walk, he possessed an ample fortune, left him by a deceased uncle.