Mrs. Oliphant
Brownlows
A Novel
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066151911
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. MR. BROWNLOW’S MONEY.
CHAPTER V. SARA’S SPECULATIONS.
CHAPTER VII. THE FATHER’S DAY AT THE OFFICE.
CHAPTER XVIII. TREATING HIS OWN CASE.
CHAPTER XX. POWYS’S BITS OF PAPER.
CHAPTER XXI. HOW A MAN CAN DO WHAT HE LIKES WITH HIS OWN.
CHAPTER XXII. THE DOWNFALL OF PHILOSOPHY.
CHAPTER XXIV. A NEW CONSPIRATOR.
CHAPTER XXV. HOW SARA REGARDED THE MOTE IN HER BROTHER’S EYE.
CHAPTER XXVI. A DOUBLE HUMILIATION.
CHAPTER XXVII. SARA’S OWN AFFAIRS.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE REAL TRAITOR.
CHAPTER XXXIII. ONLY MR. BROWNLOW’S CLERK.
CHAPTER XXXV. AN UNLOOKED-FOR VISITOR.
CHAPTER XXXVI. MOMENTARY MADNESS.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE MORNING LIGHT.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. MOTHER AND LOVER.
CHAPTER XXXIX. COMPOUND INTEREST.
CHAPTER XL. JACK’S LAST TRIAL.
CHAPTER XLI. SIR CHARLES MOTHERWELL.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY.
CHAPTER I.
MR. BROWNLOW’S MONEY.
Every body in the neighborhood was perfectly aware what was the origin of John Brownlow’s fortune. There was no possibility of any mistake about it. When people are very well known and respectable, and inspire their neighbors with a hearty interest, some little penalty must be paid for that pleasant state of affairs. It is only when nobody cares for you, when you are of no importance to the world in general, that you can shroud your concerns in mystery; but the Brownlows were very well known, much respected, and quite unable to hide themselves in a corner. In all Dartfordshire there was no family