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Henry Dunbar: A Novel

M. E. Braddon

The story delves into the life of Henry Dunbar, the heir to a wealthy banking family who has been estranged from his home for thirty-five years due to a forgery scandal associated with his youth.

"Henry Dunbar: A Novel" by M. E. Braddon is a fiction novel. The story delves into the life of Henry Dunbar, the heir to a wealthy banking family who has been estranged from his home for thirty-five years due to a forgery scandal associated with his youth.

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The house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby, East India bankers, was one of the richest firms in the city of London—so rich that it would be quite in vain to endeavour to describe the amount of its wealth. It was something fabulous, people said. The offices were situated in a dingy and narrow thoroughfare leading out of King William Street, and were certainly no great things to look at; but the cellars below their offices—wonderful cellars, that stretched far away underneath the church of St. Gundolph, and were only separated by party-walls from the vaults in which the dead lay buried—were popularly supposed to be filled with hogsheads of sovereigns, bars of bullion built up in stacks like so much firewood, and impregnable iron safes crammed to overflowing with bank bills and railway shares, government securities, family jewels, and a hundred other trifles of that kind, every one of which was worth a poor man's fortune.

The firm of Dunbar had been established very soon after the English first grew powerful in India. It was one of the oldest firms in the City; and the names of Dunbar and Dunbar, painted upon the door-posts, and engraved upon shining brass plates on the mahogany doors, had never been expunged or altered: though time and death had done their work of change amongst the owners of that name.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. After Office Hours in the House of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby.
  2. 02Chapter II. Margaret's Father.
  3. 03Chapter III. The Meeting at the Railway Station.
  4. 04Chapter IV. The Stroke of Death.
  5. 05Chapter V. Sinking the Past.
  6. 06Chapter VI. Clement Austin's Diary.
  7. 07Chapter VII. After Five-and-Thirty Years.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The First Stage on the Journey Home.
  9. 09Chapter IX. How Henry Dunbar Waited Dinner.
  10. 10Chapter X. Laura Dunbar.
  11. 11Chapter XI. The Inquest.
  12. 12Chapter XII. Arrested.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. The Prisoner Is Remanded.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Margaret's Journey.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Baffled.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Is It Love or Fear?
  17. 17Chapter XVII. The Broken Picture.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. Three Who Suspect.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Laura Dunbar's Disappointment.
  20. 20Chapter XX. New Hopes May Bloom.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. A New Life.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. The Steeple-Chase.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. The Bride That the Rain Rains on.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. The Unbidden Guest Who Came to Laura Dunbar's Wedding.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. After the Wedding.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. What Happened in the Back Parlour of the Banking-House.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Clement Austin's Wooing.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Buying Diamonds.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Going Away.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. Stopped Upon the Way.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Clement Austin Makes a Sacrifice.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. What Happened at Maudesley Abbey.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Margaret's Return.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Farewell.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. A Discovery at the Luxembourg.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Looking for the Portrait.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. Margaret's Letter.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Notes from a Journal Kept by Clement Austin During His Journey to Winchester.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Clement Austin's Journal Continued.
  40. 40Chapter XL. Flight.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. At Maudesley Abbey.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. The Housemaid at Woodbine Cottage.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. On the Track.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. Chasing the "Crow."
  45. 45Chapter XLV. Giving It Up.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. Clement's Story.—Before the Dawn.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. The Dawn.
  48. 48The Epilogue: Added by Clement Austin Seven Years Afterwards.

About this edition

Author
M. E. Braddon
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
451 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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