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Updated: June 6, 2025

Dunbar was told he might consider himself free," said the porter; "but Sir Arden checked it; there was no need for clapping of hands, he says, or for anything but sorrow that such a wicked deed had been done, and that the cruel wretch as did it should escape. A young man as was in the court told me that them was Sir Arden's exack words." They had reached Sir Arden's house by this time.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Henry Dunbar : A Novel