In Luck at Last by Walter Besant, Fiction, Literary, Historical 12+

📒 Old Mr. Emblem, proprietor of a used book shop, must somehow raise three hundred and fifty pounds to cover a debt. He can do so only by drawing upon funds put aside for his granddaughter, whose mother and father are long dead, and who is about to come into her inheritance. He cannot bring himself to do so, and stands to lose his shop. . . !