# The Merivale banks

Author: Holmes, Mary Jane, 1825-1907; Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74929

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Merivale+banks+Holmes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There were two of them: the First National, familiarly known as the White Bank, and a private bank, known as the Grey Bank, and they stood side by side in the same imposing block, with marble front and massive doors of oak, and broad granite steps. High up in the cornice was an inscription telling that the building had been erected in 1875 by Robert White, Esq. He would like to have had Judge Robert White, instead of Robert White, Esq., so proud was he of the title held for a year only, and for which he was indebted to the resignation of an intimate friend and the influence of money. But his wife dissuaded him from it, but could not keep off the “Esq.” He was both a judge and a ‘squire, h...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-merivale-banks-74929/chapters/4/index.md)