That Mainwaring Affair

That Mainwaring Affair (1900) is a novel by Anna Maynard Barbour. Excerpt from the book: "Hugh Mainwaring, the sole heir to the family estate, soon after the death of his father, some twenty-five years previous to this time, became weary of the monotony of his English homelife, and, resolved upon making his permanent home in one of the large eastern cities of the United States and embarking upon the uncertain and treacherous seas of speculation in the western world, had sold the estate whic...