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Dunbar noted the solemn repose, the pathetic grace with which she endured the symbols that emblazoned her ignominous doom, a dark red glow suffused his face, a flush of shame for the indignity which he had been impotent to avert. "Who dared to cut your hair and thrust that garb upon you? They promised me you should be exempt from brands of felony."
They knew that, as a young man, Henry Dunbar had contracted the tastes and habits of an aristocrat, and that, if he had afterwards developed into a clever and successful man of business, it was only by reason of the force of circumstances, which had thrust him into a position that he hated.
The priest, on his part, had asked many questions as to the state of things in Edinburgh, and Dunbar; what were the opinions of people with regard to the Duke of Albany, and the Prince; and what would probably come of the coldness that was said to exist between them.
Dunbar, change places with me and satisfy yourself." The solicitor went inside, and Mr. Dunbar watched from the veranda a repetition of the experiment. "That will do, Churchill. It is all plain enough now, but you cease to wonder at Bedney's superstitious solution. You understand it perfectly, don't you?" "No, I'll be hanged if I do! It is the queerest thing I ever saw."
"The murder!" cried Henry Dunbar; "but he may not have been murdered! His death may have been accidental. He wandered into the water, perhaps." "Oh, no, sir; it's not that. He wasn't drowned; for the water where he was found wasn't three foot deep.
Now, as you know him, Sampson, and as you are an excellent man of business, and as active as a boy, I should like you to meet him. Have you any objection to do this?" "No, sir," answered the clerk; "I have no great love for Mr. Henry Dunbar, for I can never cease to look upon him as the cause of my poor brother Joseph's ruin; but I am ready to do what you wish, Mr. Balderby.
'I am a student, he said, 'of the deductive method of reasoning, and I begin with the a priori assumption that E. W. Smith could not die. 'I suppose some of them took to the boat, said Toffy. 'In an affair of that sort it is a case of sauve qui peut. 'The whole crew would have swamped the boat, said Dunbar, who liked giving small pieces of information at a time. 'Consequently said Peter.
He wanted to prevent Mary Stuart from enjoying her hereditary crown. She was a woman, as such under the curse of "The First Blast of the Trumpet," and she was an idolatress. Presently, as we shall see, he shows his hand to Cecil. Before the Reformers entered Edinburgh Mary of Guise retired to the castle of Dunbar, where she had safe access to the sea.
Balderby perfectly understood that it was only a formula which Mr. Dunbar felt himself called upon to go through. The junior partner murmured his acknowledgment of Henry Dunbar's politeness; and then the two men talked together for a few minutes on indifferent subjects. Five minutes afterwards Mr. Dunbar rose to leave the room. He went into the passage between Mr.
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.
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