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Rupert Godwin by M. E. Braddon is a novel written in the late 19th century. It blends domestic idyll with financial intrigue and mounting suspense, centering on the collision between a frank, honourable sea-captain, Harley Westford, his devoted wife Clara and children, and the magnetic yet unscrupulous banker, Rupert Godwin. Themes of money-market panic, hidden histories, and moral peril surface early, with Godwin’s eerie clerk Jacob and his cherished daughter Julia deepening the tension, while Violet Westford’s youth and suitors suggest a contrasting thread of romance.
The opening of the story moves from the Westfords’ sunlit Hampshire haven to a dark contest over trust and money. Captain Westford deposits his hard-won savings and the family’s deeds with Godwin, then—warned too late by his mate Gilbert of rumours about the bank—races to reclaim the funds. At Godwin’s grand country house, the banker feigns compliance, lures him into a barred vault in the disused wing, and strikes him
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