After his father's death, Martin sees his father, briefly and accidentally, in a horse-drawn "omnibus" belonging to the municipal transportation company as it drives past him in a crowded street. Augustus had disinherited Martin several years earlier after Martin expressed disapproval of the unscrupulous business methods by which Augustus had accumulated a large fortune. His father, Augustus Pemberton, is recently deceased.
Martin Pemberton is a freelance journalist. The setting of the novel is New York in 1871. The novel is in the first person, fictionally written by the character McIlvaine some thirty or forty years after the events.
The Waterworks is a novel by American writer E.
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