{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "the-adventures-of-ferdinand-count-fathom-complete-pg6761", "title": "The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete", "author": "T. (Tobias) Smollett", "language": "en", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "Renaldo", "aliases": [ "the young Hungarian", "Count Melvil’s son", "Young Count de Melvil", "the young Count", "Melvil’s son", "the Count’s son", "Ferdinand’s young master", "the young gentleman", "Count Melvil", "Melvil", "the Count", "the young Countess’s husband" ], "description": "Son of Count Melvil and husband of Serafina, whom he loves and marries. He forgives Ferdinand and welcomes him with an offer of future support, then travels to Brussels to meet his sister and Major Farrel." }, { "name": "Ferdinand Count Fathom", "aliases": [ "Fathom", "Count Fathom", "the adventurer", "our hero", "our adventurer", "Fadini", "the Polish Count", "the Count", "Mr. Fathom", "Doctor Fathom", "the doctor", "unhappy Ferdinand" ], "description": "A self-serving impostor whose frauds brought suffering to Renaldo, Serafina, and Don Diego. He repents, accepts Renaldo and Serafina’s forgiveness, and departs with Elenor to live a sober, penitent life." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s beloved", "aliases": [ "Monimia", "Serafina", "the young lady", "the orphan", "the mistress of his soul", "the fair mourner", "the fair orphan", "the amiable stranger", "the hapless stranger", "the divine Serafina", "the Countess de Melvil", "the young Countess", "the bride" ], "description": "Daughter of Don Diego and Antonia, and Renaldo’s wife. She forgives Ferdinand and offers him protection alongside Renaldo." }, { "name": "Elenor", "aliases": [ "the young woman", "the country curate’s daughter", "his Amanda", "his beauteous Helen", "his lover", "the fair Elenor", "Mrs. Fathom", "Fathom’s wife", "the sorrowing female" ], "description": "A country curate’s daughter whom Ferdinand seduced and abandoned, leaving her destitute and temporarily without her reason. She later marries him and remains with him through hardship; they travel together to his place of retreat." }, { "name": "Major Farrel", "aliases": [ "the Irish officer", "the generous Hibernian", "the Major", "Renaldo’s friend" ], "description": "An Irish officer in Austrian service who recognizes Renaldo in Brussels, helps him pursue his family’s rights, and marries Renaldo’s sister. He and his wife travel to Brussels to reunite with Renaldo and Serafina." }, { "name": "Mrs. Farrel", "aliases": [ "Major Farrel’s wife", "Renaldo’s sister" ], "description": "Renaldo’s sister, who marries Major Farrel. She and her husband travel to Brussels to meet Renaldo and Serafina." }, { "name": "Countess Melvil", "aliases": [ "the Countess", "the old lady", "his lady", "Renaldo’s mother" ], "description": "Count Melvil’s widow and Renaldo’s mother. She joins Renaldo in forgiving Ferdinand and offers him protection." }, { "name": "Don Diego de Zelos", "aliases": [ "Ali Beker", "the noble Castilian", "the Spaniard", "Don Diego", "the Castilian", "Signior Don Diego", "Zelos" ], "description": "A Castilian nobleman living in Paris under the name Ali Beker, disguised as a Persian. Reunited with his daughter Serafina and cleared of treason, he travels toward Spain, intending to return to the Low Countries afterward." }, { "name": "Madam Clement", "aliases": [ "the merchant’s widow", "the good lady", "the humane gentlewoman", "the benefactress", "the new hostess", "the generous hostess", "the French lady" ], "description": "A wealthy merchant’s widow who sheltered and protected Serafina and helped reunite her with Renaldo. She is Don Diego’s beloved and accompanies the travelers to Deal, where he gives her a diamond ring as a pledge of love." }, { "name": "Clergyman comforting Monimia", "aliases": [ "a worthy clergyman", "the good clergyman", "the reverend clergyman", "the holy man", "the pious clergyman" ], "description": "An unnamed clergyman who comforted Serafina during her illness and helped arrange her reunion with Renaldo. He married Renaldo and Serafina and receives a valuable gift from them and Don Diego before their departure." }, { "name": "Physician attending Monimia", "aliases": [ "the physician", "the doctor", "the foreign physician", "the humane man", "the friendly physician", "the physician attending Fathom" ], "description": "An unnamed physician who treated Serafina during her fever and helped arrange her reunion with Renaldo. He attended Ferdinand during his illness and receives a valuable gift from Renaldo, Serafina, and Don Diego before their departure." }, { "name": "Rich Jewish merchant", "aliases": [ "the rich Jew", "the Israelite", "the Hebrew", "the merchant", "his excellency", "Joshua", "the Jew", "Joshua Manesseh", "the honest Hebrew" ], "description": "A wealthy Jewish merchant who lent Renaldo money and helped advance Don Diego’s cause in Spain. He supports Don Diego financially, arranges introductions, and helps provide for Ferdinand and Elenor." }, { "name": "Don Manuel de Mendoza", "aliases": [ "Don Manuel", "Mendoza" ], "description": "A nobleman once betrothed to Serafina, who becomes Renaldo’s rival. He falsely accuses Don Diego of treason to seize his estate, is confined by royal order, and later poisons himself to avoid conviction." }, { "name": "Antonia", "aliases": [ "the fair Antonia", "Don Orgullo’s daughter and heiress", "my Antonia" ], "description": "Don Gonzales Orgullo and Donna Estifania’s daughter, Don Diego’s wife, and Serafina’s mother. She helped Serafina pursue her love for Orlando; after the family’s ruin and exile, she dies and entrusts Serafina to Renaldo’s care." }, { "name": "Orlando", "aliases": [ "the German", "the traitor", "the vile German", "the favoured Orlando", "the plebeian" ], "description": "A German drawing instructor who also teaches music and wins Serafina’s love. He plans to help her escape, but Don Diego mistakenly kills another man believing him to be Orlando; Orlando survives and later recounts his history." }, { "name": "Antonia’s waiting-maid", "aliases": [ "the waiting-maid", "the maid", "the wretched messenger" ], "description": "An unnamed attendant to Antonia who receives a letter from an old woman at church and conveys it to Antonia. Don Diego threatens her until she reveals the letter and Antonia’s role in the plan." }, { "name": "Old woman who carries Orlando’s letter", "aliases": [ "an old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who secretly delivers Orlando’s letter to Antonia’s waiting-maid at church." }, { "name": "Apothecary", "aliases": [ "the apothecary", "an apothecary in the neighbourhood" ], "description": "An unnamed apothecary devoted to Don Diego, who supplies him with poison after Don Diego swears him to secrecy. In Orlando’s account, a neighborhood apothecary examines Serafina and Antonia after they lose consciousness and finds their lives are not in danger." }, { "name": "Don Gonzales Orgullo", "aliases": [ "Don Gonzales", "Orgullo", "the colonel", "my colonel", "the brigadier", "the father-in-law" ], "description": "A Spanish officer and Don Diego de Zelos’s colonel, whose family had long feuded with Diego’s. He reconciled with Diego, arranged his marriage to Antonia, and later died as a major-general while suppressing the Catalans." }, { "name": "Spanish king", "aliases": [ "the King", "his Catholic Majesty" ], "description": "The Spanish monarch who orders Don Manuel de Mendoza confined pending Don Diego’s appearance, then accepts Don Diego’s innocence and restores his honors and estate after Mendoza’s death." }, { "name": "Spanish Ambassador at London", "aliases": [ "the Spanish ambassador", "his Excellency", "the ambassador" ], "description": "An unnamed Spanish ambassador in London who has been persuaded of Don Diego’s innocence. He arranges for Don Diego to meet him and conveys the court’s decision restoring Don Diego’s standing." }, { "name": "Secretary of the Spanish ambassador", "aliases": [ "the secretary", "the stranger" ], "description": "An unnamed secretary who brings Don Diego a letter from the court of Madrid confirming his innocence and right to return to Spain." }, { "name": "Person of consequence at Madrid", "aliases": [ "a person of consequence at Madrid", "a nobleman of Diego’s acquaintance" ], "description": "An unnamed nobleman in Madrid who represents Don Diego’s case to the Spanish king, leading to Don Diego’s confinement order against Mendoza and eventual restoration." }, { "name": "Orlando’s English consul friend", "aliases": [ "the English consul", "our worthy landlord", "the consul" ], "description": "An unnamed English consul in Seville and Orlando’s friend, who shelters Serafina and Antonia during their escape. He later dies, and his widow’s death deepens Antonia’s grief." }, { "name": "English consul’s widow", "aliases": [ "the consul’s widow" ], "description": "The unnamed widow of the English consul in Seville, with whom Antonia lived in close friendship. Her death worsens Antonia’s declining health." }, { "name": "Orlando’s father", "aliases": [ "an indulgent father", "my father" ], "description": "Orlando’s unnamed father, whose wishes he disobeys when he leaves home to travel in Italy." }, { "name": "Orlando’s mother", "aliases": [ "his mother" ], "description": "Orlando’s unnamed mother, who joins him and Antonia in asking his opinion about religious scruples." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s house major-domo", "aliases": [ "the major-domo" ], "description": "An unnamed senior household servant who waits for Don Diego to return after the poisoning and sends a messenger to Don Manuel de Mendoza when he does not appear." }, { "name": "Dead man mistaken for Orlando", "aliases": [ "the body of a man", "the thief" ], "description": "An unnamed armed man found dead in Don Diego’s courtyard. Orlando arrives after Don Diego has killed him, apparently mistaking him for Orlando." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s household servants", "aliases": [ "the servants", "the domestics", "their women" ], "description": "Unnamed members of Don Diego’s household who help after Serafina and Antonia are found unconscious. They do not question Orlando’s presence, assuming another servant let him in." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s mother-in-law", "aliases": [ "her mother" ], "description": "Antonia’s unnamed mother, who joins her in seeking Orlando’s opinion on religious scruples." }, { "name": "Elenor’s relation", "aliases": [ "a relation" ], "description": "An unnamed relative in London on whom Elenor depends and to whom she carries a letter of recommendation." }, { "name": "Elenor’s nurse", "aliases": [ "a nurse" ], "description": "An unnamed nurse Ferdinand hires to attend Elenor during her fever in London." }, { "name": "Country curate", "aliases": [ "a country curate" ], "description": "An unnamed clergyman and Elenor’s father; he is mentioned as the parent of the young woman traveling to London." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s former wife", "aliases": [ "his wife", "the Count’s wife" ], "description": "An unnamed woman whom Ferdinand married before marrying Elenor. Elenor says she had died by the time Ferdinand and Elenor married in prison." }, { "name": "Fellow-prisoner who marries Ferdinand and Elenor", "aliases": [ "a fellow-prisoner who was in orders" ], "description": "An unnamed ordained prisoner who performs Ferdinand and Elenor’s marriage ceremony in prison." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s creditor in the Marshalsea", "aliases": [ "his hard-hearted creditor" ], "description": "An unnamed creditor who refuses to release Ferdinand from prison despite supplications from Ferdinand and Elenor, even though doing so might have allowed him to repay the debt." }, { "name": "Elenor’s landlord", "aliases": [ "her landlord" ], "description": "An unnamed landlord who seizes Elenor’s goods after she falls into debt while trying to support herself with a haberdashery shop." }, { "name": "Hosier who imprisons Elenor", "aliases": [ "an hosier" ], "description": "An unnamed hosier who had supplied Elenor goods on credit and obtains a writ that leads to her imprisonment in the Marshalsea." }, { "name": "Elderly gentleman who shelters Elenor", "aliases": [ "an elderly gentleman", "her keeper" ], "description": "An unnamed gentleman who notices Elenor’s distress in a London park and takes her into his protection for a year. After he dies of an apoplectic fit, his relations turn her out." }, { "name": "Elderly gentleman’s relations", "aliases": [ "his relations" ], "description": "Unnamed relatives of the elderly gentleman who shelter Elenor. After his death, they turn her out, though they leave her the clothes and possessions he had given her." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s wife’s unnamed husband", "aliases": [], "description": "Removed: this was an erroneous earlier entry; Elenor is identified in this passage as Ferdinand’s wife." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s unnamed wife in the letter", "aliases": [], "description": "Removed: the prior entry identified Monimia as Ferdinand’s supposed wife, but this passage establishes Elenor as his actual wife." }, { "name": "Fathom’s former jailer", "aliases": [ "the prison keeper" ], "description": "An unnamed keeper of the Marshalsea, where Ferdinand and Elenor were imprisoned; Elenor says they were later discharged under an act relieving insolvent debtors." }, { "name": "Apothecary’s assistant", "aliases": [ "an assistant", "the apothecary’s servant" ], "description": "An unnamed assistant from a neighborhood apothecary who applies a blister to the unconscious Ferdinand and helps with his care." }, { "name": "Sexton at Monimia’s church", "aliases": [ "the sexton" ], "description": "An unnamed sexton who opens the church at night and shows Renaldo the grave believed to be Serafina’s. He later helps make the church available for the planned reunion." }, { "name": "Charlotte", "aliases": [ "the young lady", "Mademoiselle", "the merchant’s daughter", "the only child" ], "description": "The beautiful daughter of a wealthy London merchant, who refuses a wealthy suitor because she loves Valentine, her father’s former clerk. Her father consents to their marriage after Renaldo and Joshua intervene." }, { "name": "Valentine", "aliases": [ "the pseudo-parson", "the clergyman", "the merchant’s former clerk", "the young gentleman" ], "description": "A gentleman by birth and former clerk to Charlotte’s father, whom Charlotte loves. Disguised as a clergyman, he conducts her escape in a hearse and is eventually freed to marry her with her father’s consent." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s father", "aliases": [ "the old gentleman", "the merchant", "the citizen", "her papa", "a considerable trader in the city of London" ], "description": "A wealthy London merchant who dismisses Valentine and tries to marry his only daughter Charlotte to a rich suitor. After Joshua and Renaldo persuade him, he consents to Charlotte’s marriage to Valentine." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s rejected suitor", "aliases": [ "the citizen", "the plaintiff", "the honest citizen", "the thirty thousand pound man" ], "description": "An unnamed wealthy citizen whom Charlotte’s father hopes she will marry. He pursues the eloping couple, claims Valentine injured his eye, and demands Charlotte and a large dowry as compensation." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s mother", "aliases": [ "her mother" ], "description": "The unnamed wife of Charlotte’s father, whose good reputation he cites while angrily questioning whether Charlotte is his child." }, { "name": "Constable who arrests Valentine", "aliases": [ "a constable" ], "description": "An unnamed constable who attends on a warrant from a local justice and takes Valentine into custody at Charlotte’s rejected suitor’s demand." }, { "name": "Justice who issues Valentine’s warrant", "aliases": [ "a justice of the peace", "the magistrate" ], "description": "An unnamed local justice who issues the warrant used to arrest Valentine; Don Diego, Joshua, and Renaldo later accompany the prisoner to his house, where he is admitted to bail." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s family servant", "aliases": [ "a servant of the family" ], "description": "An unnamed servant who recognizes Valentine in disguise and alerts Charlotte’s father, enabling the pursuit of the hearse." }, { "name": "Publican’s family", "aliases": [ "the publican’s family", "the whole family" ], "description": "Unnamed members of a public-house keeper’s family who witness the struggle over the hearse and mistake Charlotte for the dead person’s ghost when she emerges." }, { "name": "Four mounted men who stop the hearse", "aliases": [ "four men on horseback", "those who maltreated the driver" ], "description": "Unnamed men who surround the hearse and pull its driver from the seat. One is struck down by the disguised Valentine." }, { "name": "Second troop pursuing the hearse", "aliases": [ "another troop" ], "description": "Unnamed pursuers who cut the hearse’s harness and overpower Valentine when he fights them." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s father’s friends", "aliases": [ "his friends" ], "description": "Unnamed associates who join Charlotte’s father in pursuing the escaping couple." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s father’s dismissed clerk", "aliases": [ "his clerk" ], "description": "Valentine, Charlotte’s beloved, whom her father dismisses after learning of their mutual passion." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s father’s servant who reports the escape", "aliases": [ "a servant of the family" ], "description": "An unnamed family servant who recognizes Valentine and alerts Charlotte’s father." }, { "name": "Charlotte’s father’s hired suitor", "aliases": [ "the honest citizen" ], "description": "The unnamed wealthy citizen whom Charlotte’s father had selected as a suitable husband for her." }, { "name": "The young lady who is Fathom’s wife", "aliases": [], "description": "Removed: this was an erroneous earlier identity for Elenor." }, { "name": "The dead body in the hearse", "aliases": [ "the deceased person" ], "description": "An unnamed corpse carried in the hearse that Valentine uses to help Charlotte escape. The public-house family mistakes Charlotte for the dead person’s ghost when she emerges." }, { "name": "The letter carrier for Orlando and Antonia", "aliases": [ "a third person" ], "description": "An unnamed intermediary who conveys letters between Orlando and Antonia while Don Diego tries to keep them apart." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s Spanish secretary", "aliases": [], "description": "Removed: the secretary is the Spanish ambassador’s secretary, an unnamed messenger who brings Don Diego news from Madrid." }, { "name": "The King of Spain’s secretary of state", "aliases": [ "the secretary of state" ], "description": "An unnamed Spanish official to whom Don Manuel de Mendoza falsely accuses Don Diego and Orlando of treason." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s future son-in-law", "aliases": [ "Valentine" ], "description": "Valentine, a gentleman by birth and former clerk to Charlotte’s father, whom Charlotte loves. Disguised as a clergyman, he conducts her escape in a hearse and is eventually freed to marry her." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s children", "aliases": [ "my children" ], "description": "Don Diego’s daughter Serafina and his late son, whom he mentions with joy after recovering his honor and estate." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s son", "aliases": [ "their son" ], "description": "The infant son of Don Diego de Zelos and Antonia, who dies in infancy." }, { "name": "The mob at the wedding", "aliases": [ "a crowd of people", "the multitude" ], "description": "An unnamed crowd gathered outside the church for Renaldo and Serafina’s wedding. Their crush endangers some lives as they follow the couple to the coach." }, { "name": "The owner of the country house", "aliases": [ "the owner" ], "description": "An unnamed person who lends Joshua a country house by the Thames for Renaldo and Serafina’s wedding celebration." }, { "name": "The Spanish Ambassador’s gout-stricken Excellency", "aliases": [ "his Excellency" ], "description": "The Spanish ambassador in London, who is confined by gout and sends his secretary to Don Diego. This is the ambassador Joshua introduces Don Diego to." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s future wife", "aliases": [ "the mistress of his heart" ], "description": "Madam Clement, whom Don Diego loves and plans to marry after settling his affairs in Spain." }, { "name": "Elenor’s mother", "aliases": [], "description": "No such person is identified; Elenor’s father is the country curate, and the passage gives no details about her mother." }, { "name": "Physician attending Renaldo", "aliases": [ "the physician" ], "description": "An unnamed physician who treats Renaldo’s delirium and fever. He discovers signs of life when Renaldo appears dead, then accompanies him in England and helps arrange his visits to Monimia’s grave." }, { "name": "Ratchcali", "aliases": [ "the Tyrolese", "Ferdinand’s ally", "the stranger", "his confederate", "his associate", "his helpmate", "his fellow-traveller", "the understrapper", "Signior Ratchcali" ], "description": "A Tyrolean confidence trickster and Ferdinand’s former business partner. Captured after cheating at cards in Brussels, he is sentenced to hard labor for life; he tells Renaldo of his and Ferdinand’s frauds and receives some charity, though Renaldo refuses to seek his release." }, { "name": "Maurice", "aliases": [ "the extra postillion", "the helper", "the faithful Maurice", "Fathom’s lacquey", "Count Maurice" ], "description": "Ferdinand’s servant and accomplice, who helped stage the supernatural music used to frighten Celinda. Ratchcali says Maurice helped him escape to the Austrian Netherlands, then betrayed him to the authorities and was publicly flogged." }, { "name": "Fathom’s landlord’s daughter", "aliases": [ "his landlord’s daughter" ], "description": "An unnamed woman whom Ferdinand seduces with a promise of marriage and leaves pregnant when he flees Paris. Don Diego recounts that Fadini deflowered her and robbed the house." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s former French colonel", "aliases": [ "the general officer", "the general" ], "description": "An unnamed French general who enlists Don Diego as a volunteer after hearing his story and promotes him to subaltern. He entrusts Don Diego with serving as equerry to his teenage son, a colonel." }, { "name": "French colonel, son of Don Diego’s former commander", "aliases": [ "the son", "the colonel" ], "description": "An unnamed eighteen-year-old colonel, son of the French general who employs Don Diego. Proud and ill-mannered, he strikes Don Diego, who disarms and spares him before fleeing to Austria." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s former commander’s household servants", "aliases": [ "his servants", "the domestics" ], "description": "Unnamed servants in the French colonel’s household who witness the young colonel’s duel with Don Diego and let Don Diego leave once their master is safe." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s coachman", "aliases": [ "the coachman", "Renaldo’s driver" ], "description": "An unnamed driver who helps carry Renaldo and the wounded Don Diego to a village for medical assistance, and later drives Renaldo to the church where he visits Monimia’s grave." }, { "name": "Surgeon treating Don Diego", "aliases": [ "a surgeon", "the surgeon" ], "description": "An unnamed surgeon who treats Don Diego’s neck and side wounds after Renaldo rescues him from bandits, and later declares him out of danger." }, { "name": "Old gentlewoman who lets lodgings", "aliases": [ "the widow", "the landlady", "the old gentlewoman" ], "description": "An affluent widow who lets rooms and compulsively steals small metal objects. Ferdinand and his inamorata bait her into taking a watch, then use a constable and search warrant to extort one hundred guineas from her in exchange for dropping the prosecution." }, { "name": "Constable called to search the widow", "aliases": [ "the constable" ], "description": "An unnamed constable who accompanies Ferdinand’s inamorata to the widow’s lodgings with a warrant to search her. Ferdinand tells him the watch has been found after the widow pays to avoid prosecution." }, { "name": "Young widow who marries Ferdinand", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Fathom", "Sarah Muddy", "the widow", "the injured wife", "the prosecutrix" ], "description": "A wealthy but inexperienced young widow whom Ferdinand marries after being introduced to her by a tradesman. Her fortune is largely protected by trustees, and when she learns Ferdinand is an impostor who may already have a wife, she leaves him and brings a bigamy indictment." }, { "name": "Tradesman who introduces Ferdinand to the widow", "aliases": [ "the tradesman", "the creditor", "the writer" ], "description": "An unnamed tradesman to whom Ferdinand owes money. He introduces Ferdinand to the young widow in hopes of recovering the debt and witnesses their marriage with his wife." }, { "name": "Tradesman’s wife", "aliases": [ "the wife", "the female orator" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who witnesses Ferdinand’s marriage to the widow alongside her husband. She refuses to provide Ferdinand a certificate of the ceremony after hearing of his alleged bigamy and his debts to the couple." }, { "name": "Young widow’s brother", "aliases": [ "the counsellor", "the lawyer", "the barrister", "Ferdinand’s brother-in-law" ], "description": "An unnamed Temple counsellor who informs Ferdinand that his new wife’s fortune is restricted by trustees. After investigating Ferdinand and hearing evidence from his former mistress, he helps his sister obtain a release from the marriage and arranges an exchange of releases with Ferdinand in prison." }, { "name": "Young widow’s deceased father", "aliases": [ "her own father" ], "description": "The deceased father of Ferdinand’s young widow, who left her £1,500 for her use during widowhood, with the capital protected for her heirs." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s former mistress who claims to be his first wife", "aliases": [ "his mistress", "the person who had lived with our hero before marriage", "his true and lawful wife" ], "description": "An unnamed woman Ferdinand dismisses when he marries Sarah Muddy. She tells Sarah’s brother that she is Ferdinand’s lawful wife and says a clergyman can attest to their marriage; the text does not establish that the marriage occurred." }, { "name": "Attorney acting for Doctor Buffalo", "aliases": [ "a certain attorney" ], "description": "An unnamed attorney who writes to Ferdinand on Doctor Buffalo’s instructions, threatening suit over unpaid notes unless Ferdinand pays within three days." }, { "name": "Bailiff who arrests Ferdinand for Doctor Buffalo", "aliases": [ "the bailiff" ], "description": "An unnamed bailiff who arrests Ferdinand again after his release from the King’s Bench, this time at the suit of Doctor Buffalo." }, { "name": "Wealthy quack", "aliases": [ "the quack", "the empiric", "Ferdinand’s benefactor", "Doctor Buffalo" ], "description": "A wealthy medical empiric who lends Ferdinand money and holds his notes. When Ferdinand’s new marriage makes him a potential rival and gives him reason to expose the quack’s earlier treachery, Doctor Buffalo demands repayment and has him arrested." }, { "name": "Count Trebasi", "aliases": [ "Trebasi", "Renaldo’s father-in-law", "the Count" ], "description": "The Countess Melvil’s second husband, who seizes Renaldo’s inheritance and confines the Countess and her daughter. Renaldo wounds him in a duel; after recovering, Trebasi repents, relinquishes the stolen estate, frees Mademoiselle, and reconciles with his family." }, { "name": "Trebasi’s attendant, a former hussar officer", "aliases": [ "the attendant", "the hussar officer" ], "description": "An unnamed former hussar officer serving Count Trebasi. He fires at Major Farrel during Renaldo’s duel with Trebasi, but Farrel disarms and overpowers him." }, { "name": "Surgeon attending Count Trebasi", "aliases": [ "the surgeon" ], "description": "An unnamed surgeon who examines Trebasi’s wound and declares it mortal, prompting Trebasi to seek religious counsel and make restitution." }, { "name": "Priest who counsels Count Trebasi", "aliases": [ "a good priest", "the charitable clergyman" ], "description": "An unnamed priest who tells the wounded Trebasi to make amends for his cruelty before expecting mercy. He mediates Trebasi’s request for Renaldo’s forgiveness." }, { "name": "Judge at Trebasi’s restitution", "aliases": [ "the judge" ], "description": "An unnamed judge present when Trebasi renounces his claim to the Melvil estate and reveals where Mademoiselle has been confined." }, { "name": "Prince who sponsors Renaldo at court", "aliases": [ "a certain prince of distinction", "his highness", "the prince", "Renaldo’s particular patron" ], "description": "An unnamed prince at the Imperial court who receives Renaldo, promises protection, and introduces him to the empress-queen." }, { "name": "Empress-Queen", "aliases": [ "her imperial majesty", "the empress-queen" ], "description": "The ruler of Austria whom Renaldo’s patron introduces him to. She welcomes him back, offers her protection, and promotes him to command a troop of horse." }, { "name": "Abbess of Mademoiselle’s convent", "aliases": [ "the abbess", "that good lady" ], "description": "An unnamed abbess who treats Renaldo’s sister humanely and reunites her with him after learning Trebasi’s control over the family has ended." }, { "name": "Young woman receiving the veil", "aliases": [ "a young woman" ], "description": "An unnamed convent resident who has completed her probation and receives the veil during Renaldo’s visit." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s valet", "aliases": [ "the deserter", "Renaldo’s servant", "his valet" ], "description": "An unnamed servant attending Renaldo. He summons help when Renaldo collapses after reading Monimia’s letter and tries to revive him; Renaldo later attacks him in his delirium." }, { "name": "Messenger summoned for Renaldo", "aliases": [ "a messenger" ], "description": "An unnamed messenger whom Renaldo’s valet sends to fetch assistance after Renaldo falls unconscious." }, { "name": "Major Farrel’s ragged attendant", "aliases": [ "his domestic", "the attendant" ], "description": "An unnamed servant who accompanies Farrel while he is disguised as a traveling Savoyard. He carries a cheap viol and is thrown out of Trebasi’s castle with Farrel." }, { "name": "Trebasi’s suspicious servant", "aliases": [ "one of the domestics", "the valet" ], "description": "An unnamed servant at Trebasi’s castle who suspects Farrel is a spy and threatens to search him. Farrel provokes him into throwing the disguised officer out of the castle." }, { "name": "Trebasi’s messenger", "aliases": [ "a messenger" ], "description": "An unnamed messenger sent by Trebasi’s servants to report Renaldo’s visit to the castle." }, { "name": "Trebasi’s companion on horseback", "aliases": [ "another person on horseback" ], "description": "An unnamed rider accompanying Trebasi when he confronts Renaldo and Farrel near the castle." }, { "name": "Trebasi’s castle servants", "aliases": [ "the servants", "the domestics", "the whole house" ], "description": "Unnamed household servants who help keep the Countess and her daughter confined. They suspect Farrel is spying and report Renaldo’s visits to Trebasi." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s maternal relations", "aliases": [ "her own relations", "his mother’s relations" ], "description": "Unnamed relatives of the Countess who oppose Trebasi’s seizure of the Melvil inheritance and help support Renaldo’s legal claim." }, { "name": "Count Melvil’s friends", "aliases": [ "the friends of the Count de Melvil", "his father’s friends" ], "description": "Unnamed friends of Renaldo’s father who support his claim to the family inheritance and assist the effort against Trebasi." }, { "name": "Noble kinsman of the Countess", "aliases": [ "a gentleman in the neighbourhood", "a kinsman to the Countess" ], "description": "An unnamed relative of the Countess who provides Renaldo and Farrel a safe retreat after their confrontation with Trebasi." }, { "name": "Wilhelmina", "aliases": [ "Mademoiselle Wilhelmina", "the jeweller’s daughter", "the daughter", "his Dulcinea", "his mistress", "the nun" ], "description": "The jeweller’s daughter and Ferdinand’s former lover, whose account of his deceit reaches Renaldo through his sister. After Ferdinand abandons her, she enters a convent, where she becomes Mademoiselle de Melvil’s confidante." }, { "name": "Teresa", "aliases": [ "the maid", "the attendant", "Ferdinand’s associate", "his accomplice", "his helpmate", "his associate", "the confederate" ], "description": "Mademoiselle de Melvil’s longtime maid and Ferdinand’s conspirator. After being caught stealing, she confesses how she and Ferdinand defrauded the Melvil family and is allowed to go into voluntary exile." }, { "name": "Jeweller’s wife", "aliases": [ "the mother-in-law", "the dame", "Wilhelmina’s stepmother", "the wife", "the jeweller’s wife", "the mother" ], "description": "The jeweller’s vain and pleasure-loving wife, who is Wilhelmina’s stepmother. Ferdinand deceives her and obtains money from her; after learning of his affair with Wilhelmina, she helps expose him and later separates from her husband." }, { "name": "Rich jeweller", "aliases": [ "the wealthy bourgeois", "the German", "the father", "Wilhelmina’s father", "her husband", "the jeweller" ], "description": "A wealthy German jeweller and Wilhelmina’s father. After learning of her affair with Ferdinand and the missing heirloom chain, he confines her; she eventually enters a convent." }, { "name": "Gossip who hosts the jeweller’s wife", "aliases": [ "the gossip", "that incensed confidante" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who hosts the jeweller’s wife’s secret meetings with admirers. After quarreling with her, she reveals the wife’s affairs, including her meetings with Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Countess Melvil’s daughter’s waiting-maid", "aliases": [ "the inferior servants" ], "description": "Unnamed household servants who watch Teresa after she falls out with them and catch her stealing a piece of plate." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s fellow passengers", "aliases": [ "his fellow-passengers" ], "description": "Unnamed passengers on the Canterbury stagecoach who are moved to tears by Ferdinand’s pleas when he is arrested." }, { "name": "Clergyman at the Fleet", "aliases": [ "the clergyman who joined them", "the worthy ecclesiastic" ], "description": "An unnamed clergyman whom Ferdinand says married him to his former mistress. He cannot remember Ferdinand or find his name in the register, and threatens to summon help when Ferdinand presses him for evidence." }, { "name": "Madam la Mer", "aliases": [ "the old woman", "the landlady", "the discreet hostess", "the assiduous landlady", "the discreet matron", "Mrs. la Mer" ], "description": "A poor widow of a French refugee who lodged Monimia. She later informs Ferdinand of Monimia’s death and its burial arrangements, then joins him in secretly watching the funeral." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s fashionable friends", "aliases": [ "his old fashionable friends", "persons of consequence", "his old friends" ], "description": "Unnamed people of fashion who once cultivated Ferdinand. At court they mostly ignore him, but gamblers welcome him at a gaming-house while he has money to stake." }, { "name": "Two British knights who fleeced Ferdinand", "aliases": [ "the two British knights" ], "description": "Sir Giles Squirrel and Sir Stentor Stile, who won Ferdinand’s money and valuables at play in Paris." }, { "name": "Gaming-house waiter", "aliases": [ "one of the waiters", "a trusty servant", "the fellow" ], "description": "An unnamed waiter who collapses in an apoplectic fit while gamblers are betting. A noble peer wagers that he will die and objects to having a surgeon attend him." }, { "name": "Noble peer who wagers on the waiter", "aliases": [ "a certain noble peer", "his lordship" ], "description": "An unnamed nobleman who bets that a gaming-house waiter will die, then insists the waiter be left without a surgeon so his wager remains valid." }, { "name": "Gaming-house landlord", "aliases": [ "the landlord", "the master of the house" ], "description": "An unnamed gaming-house proprietor who sends for a surgeon when one of his waiters collapses; a noble gambler tries to stop the treatment." }, { "name": "Surgeon attending the gaming-house waiter", "aliases": [ "a surgeon" ], "description": "An unnamed surgeon summoned to treat the gaming-house waiter who has suffered an apoplectic fit." }, { "name": "Apothecary at Tunbridge", "aliases": [ "the apothecary", "the master" ], "description": "An unnamed Tunbridge apothecary who mistakes Ferdinand’s plausible talk for evidence of medical learning and spreads the news that he is a physician. He recommends Ferdinand for a young patient, helps him gain practice, and later becomes his London landlord and medical partner." }, { "name": "Lady who was Ferdinand’s patient at Bristol", "aliases": [ "a lady" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who had been Ferdinand’s patient at Bristol. At Tunbridge she gives him only a distant greeting and does not seek his services again." }, { "name": "Daughter of Ferdinand’s Bristol patient", "aliases": [ "her daughter", "the young lady" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman who had been Ferdinand’s patient at Bristol. When illness later prompts her mother to seek a physician at Tunbridge, the mother refuses to call Ferdinand because she remembers him as a count." }, { "name": "Young woman performing on stage as Monimia", "aliases": [ "a young gentlewoman" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman who is to play Monimia in a theatrical performance of The Orphan." }, { "name": "Young woman with headache and palpitations", "aliases": [ "Miss Biddy", "Biddy", "the patient", "the forsaken nymph", "the abandoned Phillis", "Phillis", "the young lady", "the daughter" ], "description": "The daughter of a wealthy older gentlewoman, with a £10,000 inheritance contingent on her marrying with her mother’s consent. After a suitor abandons her for another woman, she falls ill; Ferdinand exploits her distress, wins her affection, then turns his attention to her mother. When her mother dies, Biddy inherits everything, cuts ties with Ferdinand, and damages his reputation." }, { "name": "Miss Biddy’s mother", "aliases": [ "the old gentlewoman", "the old lady", "the good lady", "the affectionate parent", "the careful matron", "the mother" ], "description": "A wealthy older woman who seeks treatment for her daughter and initially keeps Doctor Looby as the family physician despite Ferdinand’s success. She falls in love with Ferdinand, hints that she might marry him and give him her fortune, but dies delirious before making a will; Biddy inherits her estate." }, { "name": "Doctor Looby", "aliases": [ "the rival", "the other physician", "the offended member of the faculty", "her physician" ], "description": "An unnamed-by-first-name physician who has long attended Miss Biddy and her mother and resents Ferdinand’s competing practice. He refuses to consult with Ferdinand, later relents when Biddy’s condition worsens, but Ferdinand rejects his offer and forces him to leave." }, { "name": "Miss Biddy’s mother’s apothecary", "aliases": [ "the apothecary" ], "description": "An unnamed apothecary summoned during Miss Biddy’s hysterical fit. Unable or unwilling to manage the case himself, he recommends Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Squire Stub", "aliases": [ "the squire", "Miss Biddy’s quondam admirer" ], "description": "A young squire who courts Miss Biddy, then leaves her for a newly arrived young woman. He later intends to marry that woman, but she returns to a former lover and abandons him; he resumes his advances to Biddy, who now rejects him." }, { "name": "Squire Stub’s new mistress", "aliases": [ "another young lady", "his new mistress", "his bride" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman who supplants Miss Biddy in Squire Stub’s affections. On the way to marry him, she meets a former lover, leaves Stub, and later marries that former lover." }, { "name": "Squire Stub’s former lover", "aliases": [ "a gentleman to whom she had been formerly engaged", "her former lover" ], "description": "An unnamed gentleman who meets Squire Stub’s new mistress at an inn while she is traveling to marry Stub. He appeases her displeasure and persuades her to leave Stub and return to him." }, { "name": "Footman in Miss Biddy’s household", "aliases": [ "the footman", "the messenger" ], "description": "An unnamed footman whom Ferdinand sends to fetch a new order from the apothecary while treating Miss Biddy." }, { "name": "Young lady whose mother is a country justice", "aliases": [ "the young woman", "the niece", "Fathom’s mistress", "the heiress" ], "description": "An unnamed, homely young woman whose late father, a London soap-boiler, left her £4,000. Her country-justice uncle guards her and plans her marriage to his son; Ferdinand courts her and arranges an elopement, but her uncle intervenes, and she later marries her cousin under pressure." }, { "name": "Country justice who is the heiress’s uncle", "aliases": [ "the uncle", "her guardian", "his worship" ], "description": "An unnamed country justice and guardian of a young heiress. He intends her to marry his son and, after receiving a warning from Ferdinand’s creditor, meets Ferdinand at the inn and tells him his niece has gone away." }, { "name": "Country justice’s son", "aliases": [ "his own son", "the cousin", "her cousin" ], "description": "An unnamed young man whom his father intends to marry to the heiress. She eventually marries him after Ferdinand’s elopement scheme is exposed and she describes the match as the result of coercion." }, { "name": "Heiress’s mother", "aliases": [ "her own mother" ], "description": "The unnamed mother of the heiress, who has remarried and lives in London. The heiress travels there to visit her." }, { "name": "Heiress’s stepfather", "aliases": [ "a second husband" ], "description": "The unnamed man whom the heiress’s mother married after her father’s death." }, { "name": "Clergyman’s wife", "aliases": [ "the clergyman’s wife", "the patient", "the unhappy patient", "Fathom’s patient" ], "description": "An unnamed, educated and lively woman married to a clergyman. Ferdinand seduces her while treating her illness; near death she confesses the adultery to her returning husband, who forgives her, but then separates from her and brings a prosecution against Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Clergyman, husband of Fathom’s patient", "aliases": [ "her husband", "the good man", "the virtuous husband" ], "description": "An unnamed clergyman who returns from a neighbouring kingdom after his wife’s illness worsens. He forgives her confession of adultery, then separates from her, secures evidence from her maid, and prosecutes Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Clergyman’s wife’s maid", "aliases": [ "her maid", "the confidant" ], "description": "An unnamed maid who knew of her mistress’s affair with Ferdinand. The husband secures her evidence for his prosecution." }, { "name": "Merchant whose wife Ferdinand treats", "aliases": [ "the husband", "the good-natured husband", "her husband" ], "description": "An unnamed merchant who hires Ferdinand to treat his chronically ill wife. Though Ferdinand’s harsh medicine ultimately helps her recover, the merchant is horrified by her suffering and refuses to see him again." }, { "name": "Merchant’s wife treated by Ferdinand", "aliases": [ "the patient", "the good lady", "the wife of his bosom" ], "description": "An unnamed woman with several long-standing ailments whom Ferdinand treats with a harsh medicine that brings her to the brink of death before she recovers. She and her friends spread word of the recovery, helping Ferdinand’s reputation despite her husband’s anger." }, { "name": "Gentlewoman who recommends Ferdinand", "aliases": [ "the good lady" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who, after hearing Miss Biddy criticize Ferdinand, hopes his medical success will prove Biddy wrong. She seeks his care for her ill wife." }, { "name": "Gentlewoman’s wife", "aliases": [ "the patient", "the wife" ], "description": "An unnamed woman suffering from several ailments whom Ferdinand treats with a harsh medicine. She recovers after severe distress and helps publicize the cure." }, { "name": "Gentlewoman’s gossips", "aliases": [ "her gossips", "the patient’s friends" ], "description": "Unnamed acquaintances who spread and embellish the story of Ferdinand’s successful treatment of the gentlewoman’s wife." }, { "name": "Gentleman who dies during phlebotomy", "aliases": [ "a gentleman of some rank" ], "description": "An unnamed gentleman who dies while Ferdinand is bleeding him, further damaging Ferdinand’s medical reputation." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s London landlord and apothecary", "aliases": [ "the landlord", "the apothecary" ], "description": "An unnamed apothecary near Charing Cross who gives Ferdinand lodging and initially helps promote his medical practice. He later quarrels with Ferdinand and tells him to find another place to stay." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s London footman", "aliases": [ "the footman" ], "description": "An unnamed servant whom Ferdinand hires in livery to accompany his chariot, then claims to have dismissed for drunkenness." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s hired housekeeper", "aliases": [ "his housekeeper", "his inamorata" ], "description": "An unnamed woman from Drury whom Ferdinand keeps as a housekeeper and allows to use his name to avoid scandal." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s inamorata in the widow’s lodging", "aliases": [ "his inamorata", "his Dulcinea", "his helpmate", "Mrs. Fathom", "the mistress" ], "description": "An unnamed woman Ferdinand takes to the lodging of a miserly widow. She helps stage the apparent theft of her watch so they can have the widow searched." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s friend at the coffee-house", "aliases": [ "his acquaintance", "his friend" ], "description": "An unnamed acquaintance who tells Ferdinand about an avaricious widow who lets lodgings, prompting him to rent a room in her house." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s dog", "aliases": [ "the dog", "the poor animal" ], "description": "Renaldo’s dog, long a favourite of Monimia. It greets her as she leaves the house; Ferdinand falsely tells Renaldo that she kicked it." }, { "name": "Young usurer", "aliases": [ "the lender", "this petit-maitre", "the minister of Plutus", "the person to whom our adventurer had been directed" ], "description": "A fashionable young moneylender and former first lieutenant of marines who lends only on strict security and refuses Renaldo because he plans to leave Britain. He explains that he entered lending after selling his half-pay and makes a business of charging high premiums." }, { "name": "Young gentleman indebted to the usurer", "aliases": [ "the young gentleman", "the young man" ], "description": "An unnamed young gentleman who has just arranged a loan with the young usurer. The usurer says his loan will let him equip himself for a promised position abroad." }, { "name": "Young officer who borrowed from the usurer", "aliases": [ "a young officer of the same regiment", "the borrower" ], "description": "An unnamed officer who borrowed money from the future usurer, insured his life, then committed highway robbery and cut his own throat after conviction; the insurance paid off his bond." }, { "name": "Second usurer", "aliases": [ "another member of his profession", "the second usurer" ], "description": "An unnamed moneylender to whom a young gentleman directs Renaldo and Ferdinand. He refuses their loan request rudely." }, { "name": "Imperial army purveyor", "aliases": [ "one of the clerks", "the clerk" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk in the Jewish merchant’s counting-house who had served as a purveyor in the Imperial army. He recognizes Renaldo and confirms his family and identity." }, { "name": "Emperor’s minister", "aliases": [ "the minister" ], "description": "An unnamed Imperial representative in England whom Renaldo says can attest to his identity and whom the Jewish merchant proposes to visit with him." }, { "name": "French refugee at the coffee-house", "aliases": [ "the old French refugee", "the refugee", "the Huguenot" ], "description": "An unnamed French refugee who plays chess with Renaldo at a coffee-house. Alarmed by Renaldo’s increasingly agitated behaviour, he mistakes him for mad and flees." }, { "name": "Madam Clement’s physician visitor", "aliases": [ "the physician" ], "description": "The physician attending Monimia, who is present when Ferdinand visits Madam Clement and later exposes contradictions in his account." }, { "name": "Two young gentlemen at the coffee-house", "aliases": [ "two young gentlemen" ], "description": "Two unnamed young men overheard by Renaldo discussing a theatrical performance of The Orphan and its actress playing Monimia." }, { "name": "Young gentlewoman appearing on stage", "aliases": [ "a young gentlewoman" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman who has never appeared on stage and is to play Monimia in a performance of The Orphan." }, { "name": "Monimia’s father", "aliases": [ "her father", "the once happy Monimia’s father" ], "description": "Monimia’s unnamed father, whose small portrait set with diamonds is her last family keepsake. She entrusts it to Ferdinand to pawn for her subsistence." }, { "name": "Monimia’s mother", "aliases": [ "her mother" ], "description": "Monimia’s unnamed mother, who preserved her husband’s portrait set with diamonds through hardship and gave it to her daughter." }, { "name": "Monimia’s parents", "aliases": [ "her indulgent parents", "natural parents" ], "description": "Monimia’s unnamed parents, remembered as having raised her amid comfort and affection. Their portrait is her last keepsake, and she is now orphaned." }, { "name": "Madam la Mer’s French refugee husband", "aliases": [ "the French refugee" ], "description": "Madam la Mer’s deceased husband, identified as a French refugee." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s wealthy French acquaintance", "aliases": [ "a worthy nobleman" ], "description": "An unnamed nobleman in France whose supposed final will Ferdinand claims has made him financially independent; the passage does not establish the truth of the claim." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s supposed wife", "aliases": [ "his wife" ], "description": "Monimia, whom Ferdinand falsely claims to have married at the Fleet when he tries to discredit her with Madam Clement." }, { "name": "First creditor rescued by the usurer", "aliases": [ "a worthy man" ], "description": "An unnamed man whom the usurer says he saved from jail by lending him money to cover a debt incurred as surety for a friend." }, { "name": "First creditor’s friend", "aliases": [ "a friend" ], "description": "An unnamed man who left the person he had asked to stand surety in the lurch, prompting the usurer’s loan." }, { "name": "Great official in a neighbouring kingdom", "aliases": [ "a great man", "his lordship" ], "description": "An unnamed powerful official who has promised to provide for the young gentleman indebted to the usurer." }, { "name": "Young Tarquin", "aliases": [ "Tarquin" ], "description": "A historical figure invoked in a comparison to Ferdinand’s attempted assault on Monimia." }, { "name": "Solicitor", "aliases": [ "the attorney", "Fathom’s solicitor", "the conscientious attorney", "the caitiff", "the pettifogger" ], "description": "An unnamed solicitor who arranged Ferdinand’s bail and legal defense and later disappeared with Ferdinand’s valuables, according to his own account. Ferdinand accuses him of robbery and strikes him with a poker; the solicitor feigns a grave injury, then agrees to exchange releases with Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Bailiff", "aliases": [ "the bailiff" ], "description": "An unnamed bailiff who, along with the solicitor and surgeon, hopes to extract money from Ferdinand. He leads Ferdinand to another room after the assault and later conveys him to prison." }, { "name": "Surgeon", "aliases": [ "a surgeon in the neighbourhood" ], "description": "An unnamed surgeon who examines the wound Ferdinand inflicted on the solicitor and declares it dangerous." }, { "name": "Bailiff’s family", "aliases": [ "his whole family" ], "description": "The unnamed family of the bailiff, who join the commotion when Ferdinand threatens to leave with the solicitor." }, { "name": "Landlord and mediator", "aliases": [ "the landlord", "the catchpole", "the mediator" ], "description": "An unnamed landlord who, at the solicitor’s prompting, tries to persuade Ferdinand to settle the assault and robbery accusations. He brokers their exchange of releases and receives authority from Ferdinand to dismiss his servants and sell his effects." }, { "name": "Captain Minikin", "aliases": [ "the captain", "GOLIAH MINIKIN", "the representative", "the ambassador", "the guide", "the conductor" ], "description": "A formal, eccentric prisoner who represents his fellow inmates and welcomes Ferdinand into their society. He is a former British army officer, a devoted borrower of poetic quotations, and husband of Mrs. Minikin; he challenges Major Macleaver after the major introduces disreputable women to his wife, but the duel is settled by a contest involving assafœtida." }, { "name": "The king of the jail society", "aliases": [ "the king", "his majesty", "Theodore king of Corsica", "Theodore", "the Baron", "the sovereign prince", "the prince" ], "description": "The imprisoned Theodore, formerly king of Corsica, who chairs the jail society. He believes he may be restored to power and conducts mock military campaigns with Major Macleaver." }, { "name": "Major Macleaver", "aliases": [ "Major Macleaver", "the major", "General Macleaver", "the general", "the Irish gentleman", "the soldier of fortune", "the Hibernian" ], "description": "An Irish soldier of fortune and the jail society’s second-ranking member, whom Theodore appoints commander-in-chief. He is experienced, boastful, and physically imposing; he quarrels with Captain Minikin over the women introduced to Minikin’s wife, then settles their dispute in an assafœtida duel." }, { "name": "Sir Mungo Barebones", "aliases": [ "Sir Mungo", "the knight" ], "description": "An impoverished, learned prisoner from an old northern family who hopes to convert Jews and Gentiles through an eccentric interpretation of Hebrew scripture. He attacks the French chevalier with an ancient sword after the chevalier condemns his scheme." }, { "name": "French chevalier in the jail", "aliases": [ "the French chevalier", "the mad Frenchman with the beard", "the chevalier", "the Frenchman" ], "description": "A French prisoner and self-styled poet with a long beard, whose schemes for France were rejected by Cardinal Fleury. He challenges Theodore after being denied credit, and later quarrels with Sir Mungo over religion before the dispute is stopped." }, { "name": "Mrs. Minikin", "aliases": [ "Minikin’s wife", "his wife" ], "description": "Captain Minikin’s wife, whom Major Macleaver introduces to his cousin and her daughters as ladies of character. Minikin suspects she has been misled and challenges the major over the introduction." }, { "name": "Major Macleaver’s cousin", "aliases": [ "the major’s cousin", "a first cousin of good fortune" ], "description": "An unnamed woman related to Major Macleaver who visits the jail with her daughters. Ferdinand recognizes them; Minikin believes they are women of disreputable reputation." }, { "name": "Major Macleaver’s cousin’s daughters", "aliases": [ "her daughters", "the young ladies", "those ladies" ], "description": "The unnamed daughters who visit the jail with Major Macleaver’s cousin. Their reputation prompts Captain Minikin’s challenge to the major." }, { "name": "Helen Melvil", "aliases": [ "Renaldo’s unfortunate cousin", "the pretended relation" ], "description": "A fictional identity in a letter sent to Renaldo, purporting to be his poor female cousin imprisoned with two sick children after her husband’s death. The jail keeper identifies the letter as a con devised by a set of sharpers; the text does not establish whether Helen Melvil is a real person." }, { "name": "Helen Melvil’s supposed husband", "aliases": [ "her husband", "the merchant of London" ], "description": "The deceased London merchant described in the fraudulent letter attributed to Helen Melvil. The letter claims that trade losses left him indigent and that he died in prison." }, { "name": "Helen Melvil’s supposed children", "aliases": [ "two young children" ], "description": "The two children described in the fraudulent letter attributed to Helen Melvil as suffering from smallpox." }, { "name": "Messenger for the supposed Helen Melvil", "aliases": [ "the messenger", "a trusty servant" ], "description": "An unnamed man who delivers the letter attributed to Helen Melvil and carries two guineas from Renaldo. The jail keeper says Renaldo was deceived by a common sharpers’ trick." }, { "name": "Jail keeper", "aliases": [ "the keeper", "stern janitor", "governor of an English county jail", "the jailor" ], "description": "An unnamed prison keeper who informs Renaldo that the supposed Helen Melvil is not in the jail and explains that the letter is a familiar fraud. He also refuses the French chevalier credit for necessities." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s beloved’s mother", "aliases": [ "the mother of his mistress" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who recently died of sorrow and chagrin. Renaldo had delayed his departure from England to attend her." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s former companions", "aliases": [ "his private friends", "a few intimates", "his companions" ], "description": "Unnamed acquaintances who had lent Renaldo money and kept him company, but gradually withdrew their support and criticized his generosity toward Ferdinand and his attachment to Monimia." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s benefactor", "aliases": [ "the gentleman", "his friend", "his benefactor" ], "description": "An unnamed gentleman who had repeatedly lent Renaldo money and sends him five guineas with a letter saying he will end their inconvenient correspondence. Renaldo returns the money, and the gentleman mistakes the reply for bitter irony." }, { "name": "Money-broker Ferret", "aliases": [ "Mr. Ferret", "the broker", "the money-broker" ], "description": "A money-broker who introduces Renaldo to a club of lenders after making them believe he is a wealthy heir. He delays with schemes and fails to obtain a loan for Renaldo." }, { "name": "Lenders’ club chairman", "aliases": [ "the chairman" ], "description": "An unnamed chairman of a club of moneylenders who publicly condemns a member for lending forty pounds on what he considers inadequate security." }, { "name": "Lenders’ club members", "aliases": [ "the monied men", "the society", "the assembly" ], "description": "Unnamed moneylenders who welcome Renaldo while believing he is a wealthy heir, but refuse his requests for credit when they learn his security is inadequate." }, { "name": "First lender approached by Renaldo", "aliases": [ "the merchant", "the person accused" ], "description": "An unnamed merchant who objects to Renaldo’s request for a loan and claims he has no available cash. He has just secretly pocketed his own silver tobacco box while Renaldo explained his need." }, { "name": "The first lender’s partner", "aliases": [ "his partner" ], "description": "An unnamed business partner who is away in an American plantation; another club member cites his absence as a reason for refusing Renaldo a loan." }, { "name": "Scullion", "aliases": [ "a scullion" ], "description": "An unnamed kitchen servant who interrupts the jail society’s political deliberations to ask for their dinner orders." }, { "name": "Bess Beetle", "aliases": [ "Bess Beetle" ], "description": "An unnamed jail kitchen worker addressed by the jail governor, who orders her to provide food and stop extending credit to the king." }, { "name": "Ragged-head", "aliases": [ "Ragged-head" ], "description": "An unnamed jail resident or worker whom the governor orders to deliver potatoes for Major Macleaver’s supper." }, { "name": "Fat widow from Pimlico", "aliases": [ "the fat widow gentlewoman from Pimlico" ], "description": "An unnamed widow who has promised to pay Major Macleaver’s food bill." }, { "name": "Sir Mungo’s deceased benefactor", "aliases": [ "the executor of a Dutch seaman" ], "description": "A deceased Dutch seaman whose executor sold an old pair of breeches to the jail keeper for Sir Mungo Barebones." }, { "name": "Murphy Macmorris", "aliases": [ "Murphy" ], "description": "An unnamed man who was enslaved with Major Macleaver in Algiers. He once lost a contest with Macleaver to see who could endure smoking sulphur longest." }, { "name": "Cardinal Fleury", "aliases": [ "Cardinal Fleury" ], "description": "A French cardinal who rejected the French chevalier’s proposals for France and had him imprisoned." }, { "name": "The Queen of Hungary", "aliases": [ "the Queen" ], "description": "The queen whose dispute with the late Emperor the French chevalier proposed should be settled by a single combat." }, { "name": "The late Emperor", "aliases": [ "the Emperor" ], "description": "The deceased emperor whose claims the French chevalier proposed to settle against those of the Queen of Hungary through single combat." }, { "name": "Celinda", "aliases": [ "the beautiful young creature", "the fair bastard", "the gentleman’s niece", "the gentleman’s natural daughter" ], "description": "A fifteen-year-old young woman who is actually the country gentleman’s illegitimate daughter, though she is presented as his niece. Ferdinand exploits her innocence and superstitious fears to seduce her; he then encourages her drinking, and she is eventually abandoned by her husband, a footman." }, { "name": "Country gentleman", "aliases": [ "the gentleman", "Celinda’s father" ], "description": "A wealthy host who befriends Ferdinand and invites him to stay with his family. He loves Celinda, his illegitimate daughter, but yields to his wife’s hostility toward her; her later ruin grieves him." }, { "name": "Country gentleman’s wife", "aliases": [ "his lady", "the supposed aunt", "the father’s wife", "the stepdame", "the prying matron" ], "description": "The country gentleman’s wife, who knows Celinda is her husband’s illegitimate daughter and has approved her education, but resents her and treats her cruelly. She rejoices when Celinda falls into disgrace." }, { "name": "Country gentleman’s legitimate children", "aliases": [ "her own children" ], "description": "The unnamed children of the country gentleman and his wife, whom their mother believes Celinda eclipses." }, { "name": "Celinda’s footman husband", "aliases": [ "one of the footmen", "her husband" ], "description": "An unnamed footman who marries Celinda hoping to obtain a settlement from her father. When that hope fails, he takes her to London and abandons her." }, { "name": "Old physician at Bristol Well", "aliases": [ "the old physician", "the doctor", "the physician" ], "description": "An unnamed physician who lectures on the warmth of Bristol’s waters. Ferdinand publicly contradicts him with a fanciful theory and wins the audience’s favor, drawing patients away from him." }, { "name": "Mrs. Trapwell", "aliases": [ "the young wife", "his spouse", "the lady", "the inamorata" ], "description": "A young woman married to the elderly London citizen Trapwell, who had kept her as a concubine before marrying her after she falsely claimed to be pregnant. She becomes Ferdinand’s lover, then helps her husband entrap him so they can extort money and secure a divorce." }, { "name": "Trapwell", "aliases": [ "the old citizen of London", "the husband", "the citizen", "the plaintiff" ], "description": "An elderly London citizen who married Mrs. Trapwell after she deceived him into believing she was pregnant. He arranges to catch her with Ferdinand, brings a criminal-conversation suit against him, and later has him arrested for the unpaid damages." }, { "name": "Trapwell’s sister", "aliases": [ "his own sister", "the maiden of fifty years", "the duenna" ], "description": "An unmarried sister of Trapwell who accompanies Mrs. Trapwell to Bristol to supervise her, unaware of the true purpose of the journey." }, { "name": "Mrs. Trapwell’s brother", "aliases": [ "her brother" ], "description": "An unnamed army officer whom Mrs. Trapwell claims would kill her and Ferdinand if he learned of their affair; this threat helps persuade Trapwell to marry her." }, { "name": "Trapwell’s friend", "aliases": [ "a particular friend", "one of the assistants" ], "description": "An unnamed associate who helps Trapwell surprise Ferdinand at the assignation and hold him." }, { "name": "Trapwell’s journeyman", "aliases": [ "his journeyman", "the witness", "the material evidence" ], "description": "An unnamed employee of Trapwell who helps seize Ferdinand and is expected to testify for the plaintiff. Ferdinand’s solicitor claims to have won him over, but he testifies against Ferdinand at trial." }, { "name": "Constable at the bagnio", "aliases": [ "the constable", "one of the assistants" ], "description": "An unnamed constable who accompanies Trapwell and his associates to the assignation and helps arrest Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Trapwell’s chairmen", "aliases": [ "the chairmen" ], "description": "Unnamed chairmen who carry Mrs. Trapwell home after the ambush." }, { "name": "Solicitor’s acquaintance", "aliases": [ "a certain solicitor of his acquaintance" ], "description": "An unnamed lawyer consulted by Ratchcali, who assures him that legal tactics, possible witness bribery, and available evidence can protect Ferdinand in the case." }, { "name": "Judge in Trapwell’s suit", "aliases": [ "the judge", "a judge" ], "description": "An unnamed judge who issues a warrant securing Ferdinand until trial; the jury later finds for Trapwell." }, { "name": "Sheriff’s officer", "aliases": [ "the sheriff’s officer", "the bailiff", "the officer" ], "description": "An unnamed officer who executes a writ against Ferdinand after the trial and takes him into custody. He refuses Ferdinand’s offer of money to visit his lodgings." }, { "name": "Fathom’s valet-de-chambre", "aliases": [ "his valet-de-chambre", "the valet", "his lacquey", "his servant" ], "description": "An unnamed valet who, with Ratchcali and the solicitor present, takes charge of Ferdinand’s valuables and then disappears with Ratchcali. Ferdinand had already judged him a likely accomplice." }, { "name": "English nobleman who bought the false diamond", "aliases": [ "an English nobleman", "his lordship" ], "description": "An unnamed nobleman to whom Ratchcali sells a pebble as a genuine diamond through Ferdinand’s recommendation. He discovers the fraud and accepts Ferdinand’s offer to repay the loss." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s quality friend Grizzlegrin", "aliases": [ "Grizzlegrin", "one quality friend" ], "description": "An unnamed nobleman whom Ferdinand asks for a loan after his conviction. He sends a mocking letter refusing help while pretending to sympathize." }, { "name": "Lord Trompington", "aliases": [ "Trompington", "the other noble peer" ], "description": "A nobleman whom Ferdinand asks for a loan after his conviction. He refuses, saying Ferdinand’s conviction releases him from any earlier professions of friendship." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s former surety", "aliases": [ "the person who had been bail for his appearance", "that gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed gentleman who had guaranteed Ferdinand’s appearance in court and would renew that guarantee, but refuses to secure payment of the damages." }, { "name": "Second jewel dealer", "aliases": [ "another person of credit with whom he largely dealt in jewels" ], "description": "An unnamed associate of Ratchcali who joins him in guaranteeing Ferdinand’s appearance in court." }, { "name": "The Swiss chevalier", "aliases": [ "the Swiss", "the chevalier", "the self-created chevalier", "the challenger", "the unfortunate gamester", "the wounded knight" ], "description": "A former Dutch foot soldier, dismissed for theft, who styles himself a chevalier and is selected by fellow adventurers to confront Ferdinand. Ferdinand frightens him with a staged duel and wounds him in a real one, after which the Swiss’s account of Ferdinand’s supposed valor deters further challenges." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s staged-duel opponent", "aliases": [ "the stranger", "the visitant", "the impetuous rival", "the vanquished party" ], "description": "An unnamed young man who claims Ferdinand is courting his mistress and challenges him to a duel. He is Ratchcali’s accomplice in a staged fight, allowing Ferdinand to terrorize the Swiss chevalier." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s staged-duel opponent’s father", "aliases": [ "a gentleman whom he honoured" ], "description": "An unnamed gentleman, respected by Ferdinand, whose son is the young man used in the staged duel." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s staged-duel opponent’s mistress", "aliases": [ "that young lady", "my mistress" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman whose house Ferdinand visits and whom the young man claims as his mistress." }, { "name": "Minor English adventurers", "aliases": [ "the brethren of his own order", "his adversaries", "the community" ], "description": "Unnamed foreign adventurers in England who resent Ferdinand’s success and investigate his origins. They plot to frighten him out of the kingdom by arranging a public confrontation with the Swiss chevalier." }, { "name": "Lady of quality who buys the ring", "aliases": [ "a certain lady of quality", "her ladyship" ], "description": "An unnamed aristocratic woman who buys Ferdinand’s supposedly valuable diamond ring for 150 guineas after he presents it as a bargain." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s lodging’s two gaming cheats", "aliases": [ "two of the pack", "the pack" ], "description": "Two unnamed professional gamblers who live in the upper apartments of Ferdinand’s hotel and follow a strict routine to stay alert for play." }, { "name": "Bristol hot-well proprietor", "aliases": [ "the proprietor of the hot well" ], "description": "An unnamed proprietor who welcomes Ferdinand’s arrival at Bristol as a promising draw for visitors." }, { "name": "Bristol master of ceremonies", "aliases": [ "the master of the ceremonies" ], "description": "An unnamed official who will not begin the ball until Ferdinand is seated." }, { "name": "Bristol patients", "aliases": [ "the valetudinarian", "the patients" ], "description": "Unnamed visitors to Bristol Well who consult Ferdinand for medical advice after his public dispute with the physician." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s criminal-conversation jury", "aliases": [ "the jury" ], "description": "The unnamed jury that finds Ferdinand guilty of criminal conversation with Mrs. Trapwell and awards Trapwell £1,500 in damages." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s defense counsel", "aliases": [ "his counsel", "the counsel" ], "description": "Unnamed lawyers retained by Ferdinand who try to confuse the evidence and mislead the court, but fail to prevent his conviction." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s fashionable acquaintance", "aliases": [ "a certain nobleman’s house", "a certain great man" ], "description": "An unnamed influential host whose house provides Ferdinand an opportunity to display a false diamond to fashionable guests; elsewhere Ferdinand meets the country gentleman at a great man’s table." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s fashionable admirers", "aliases": [ "the fair sex", "the ladies", "the audience", "the company" ], "description": "Unnamed women and fashionable guests who admire Ferdinand and buy the jewels, instruments, and art he promotes." }, { "name": "The coquette at the drum", "aliases": [ "a certain pert, little, forward coquette", "the young lady" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman who mocks Ferdinand’s fabricated Polish pedigree at a fashionable gathering. He retorts by insinuating that her own ancestry is doubtful." }, { "name": "Old duenna", "aliases": [ "the old woman", "the duenna" ], "description": "An unnamed longtime household attendant who was Don Diego’s nurse. She warns him of Orlando’s influence over Serafina and helps uncover the planned elopement." }, { "name": "Dutch shipmaster", "aliases": [ "the master", "the Dutch navigator" ], "description": "An unnamed Dutch shipmaster who takes Don Diego aboard and later sells him a Persian disguise and helps him obtain a certificate from the magistracy." }, { "name": "Master of the English ship", "aliases": [ "the master" ], "description": "An unnamed English shipmaster who tells Don Diego that Spanish authorities are searching for him on suspicion of treason." }, { "name": "Don Diego’s landlord in Amsterdam", "aliases": [ "my landlord" ], "description": "An unnamed Amsterdam landlord who conceals Don Diego and helps him obtain a magistracy certificate before he leaves for Rotterdam." }, { "name": "Spanish courier", "aliases": [ "a courier" ], "description": "An unnamed courier from Madrid who brings the order to prevent Don Diego’s escape by sea and have him apprehended." }, { "name": "Corregidore", "aliases": [ "the corregidore" ], "description": "An unnamed Spanish local magistrate who receives orders to prevent Don Diego from escaping by sea." }, { "name": "Wapping landlady", "aliases": [ "the jolly dame", "mine hostess", "the plump gentlewoman", "the fat gentlewoman", "the Amazon", "the fat Wapping landlady", "Kate Brawn" ], "description": "A robust, sharp-tongued landlady from Wapping, formerly an oyster and fish seller known as Kate Brawn. She travels in the coach with Ferdinand and trades insults with the wine merchant." }, { "name": "Obadiah", "aliases": [ "the quaker", "the corpulent quaker", "the London merchant" ], "description": "A London Quaker merchant who shares the coach with Ferdinand after inspecting repairs to a ship at Deal. He trades comic barbs with the Wapping landlady and later proposes a truce during her quarrel with the wine merchant." }, { "name": "Wine merchant and smuggler", "aliases": [ "the wine merchant", "the smuggler", "the male disputant", "the competitor in fame", "the accuser", "the impeacher" ], "description": "An unnamed wine dealer, French-lace smuggler, and petty gamester traveling from Paris. He mistakes Ferdinand for the Young Pretender and has him arrested, but Maurice exposes his contraband." }, { "name": "English barber", "aliases": [ "the barber", "the perruquier", "the smuggler’s understrapper" ], "description": "An unnamed English barber traveling with the wine merchant. He is caught carrying concealed French lace and embroidery." }, { "name": "Young woman traveling to London", "aliases": [ "the young woman", "the agreeable young creature", "the modest young woman" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman with a modest manner who is traveling to London to become a milliner’s apprentice. She is frightened by the coach passengers’ quarrel and is comforted by the sixth passenger." }, { "name": "Sixth coach passenger", "aliases": [ "the sixth passenger", "the foreigner" ], "description": "An unnamed passenger who remains silent during the coach journey and comforts the young woman when the other passengers quarrel. Ferdinand occupies the seat designated for this passenger." }, { "name": "Coachman", "aliases": [ "the driver" ], "description": "An unnamed coachman who drives Ferdinand and the other passengers toward London and helps search the coach when Elenor’s purse disappears." }, { "name": "Young nobleman who helps Fathom", "aliases": [ "his lordship", "the young nobleman", "the peer" ], "description": "An unnamed young nobleman who recognizes that Ferdinand is not the Young Pretender and helps secure his release from the local justice. He later receives Ferdinand in London and introduces him to fashionable society." }, { "name": "Country justice", "aliases": [ "the justice", "the magistrate", "the squire", "his worship", "the justice of the peace" ], "description": "An unnamed local justice who presides over Ferdinand’s examination after the smuggler accuses him of being the Young Pretender. He accepts a forged letter as proof of Ferdinand’s invented identity and releases him." }, { "name": "Justice’s clerk", "aliases": [ "the clerk" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk who assists the local justice during Ferdinand’s examination." }, { "name": "Justice’s hunting companions", "aliases": [ "his fellows of the chase", "the squires" ], "description": "Unnamed squires at the inn with the local justice after a hare hunt when Ferdinand is brought in for questioning." }, { "name": "Inn landlord", "aliases": [ "the landlord" ], "description": "An unnamed innkeeper who helps restrain Ferdinand when the wine merchant calls for assistance." }, { "name": "Inn waiter", "aliases": [ "one of his waiters" ], "description": "An unnamed waiter who helps escort Ferdinand to the local justice." }, { "name": "Customs officer", "aliases": [ "an officer of the customs", "the experienced spoiler" ], "description": "An unnamed customs officer who searches the English barber and wine merchant and discovers their concealed French contraband." }, { "name": "Fathom’s coach driver", "aliases": [ "the postillion" ], "description": "An unnamed postillion whom Ferdinand hires to drive him from Paris to Boulogne." }, { "name": "Deal boatman", "aliases": [ "the master of a small bark" ], "description": "An unnamed boatmaster who agrees to carry Ferdinand from Boulogne to Deal." }, { "name": "Elenor’s two coach companions", "aliases": [ "the corpulent couple", "the two fat turtles" ], "description": "The unnamed Quaker merchant and Wapping landlady, who leave the coach near Gravesend. Ferdinand and the coachman falsely encourage Elenor to suspect they stole her purse." }, { "name": "Old cottage woman", "aliases": [ "the old woman", "the old cottager", "the old beldame", "the beldame", "the hoary hag", "the landlady", "the withered Hecate", "the old hag", "his conductress" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who shelters Ferdinand in a forest cottage and is an accomplice of the robbers who murder and rob travelers. He forces her to guide him to a village at gunpoint, then dismisses her; she vows to reform but intends to alert her fellow robbers to accuse him." }, { "name": "Tyrolese’s victim", "aliases": [ "the deceased", "the dead body", "the second guest", "the murdered stranger" ], "description": "An unnamed man murdered and hidden beneath straw in a forest cottage. Ferdinand takes his purse, watch, and ring, then avoids reporting the crime so he can keep the stolen goods." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s temporary domestic", "aliases": [ "an occasional domestic" ], "description": "An unnamed servant Ferdinand hires after arriving in Paris." }, { "name": "Westphalian count", "aliases": [ "the German count", "the count", "the Teutonian" ], "description": "An unnamed count Ferdinand meets at a Paris dining-house. He quarrels with Sir Giles Squirrel over a woman, then is reconciled through Ferdinand’s mediation and gives him a fine sword; he and his companions later fleece Ferdinand at dice." }, { "name": "Bolognian marquis", "aliases": [ "the Italian", "the Bolognian" ], "description": "An unnamed marquis from Bologna who dines beside Ferdinand in Paris. Ferdinand converses with him about music; later the marquis is jostled when Sir Stentor greets Ferdinand." }, { "name": "French abbé", "aliases": [ "the abbe", "Monsieur le Compte" ], "description": "An unnamed French abbé and self-styled wit and critic who joins Ferdinand’s dining companions. He is struck on the nose while trying to stop the brawl between Sir Giles and the Westphalian count, then receives their apologies." }, { "name": "Dutch officer", "aliases": [ "the Hollander", "the Dutchman" ], "description": "An unnamed Dutch officer who meets Ferdinand at a Paris dining-house and drinks to the prosperity of his homeland. He declines to join the others’ nighttime excursion." }, { "name": "Sir Giles Squirrel", "aliases": [ "the knight", "the English knight", "the baronet", "the chevalier", "the Englishman" ], "description": "A wealthy, suspicious English baronet whom Ferdinand meets in Paris. He and Sir Stentor Stile are notorious sharpers who prey on strangers; he wins a nighttime brawl with the Westphalian count, is reconciled with him, and helps fleece Ferdinand at dice." }, { "name": "Madame la Maquerelle", "aliases": [ "the venerable priestess", "the gouvernante", "the old lady", "the old gentlewoman", "the madam" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly woman who runs a Paris brothel and leads the women and her armed attendants when a brawl breaks out. She scolds the abbé, recounting that she once sheltered and supported him when his mother abandoned him." }, { "name": "The brothel’s young women", "aliases": [ "the fair nymphs", "the ladies", "the damsels", "the fair damsels" ], "description": "A group of unnamed women employed at Madame la Maquerelle’s establishment. One is chosen by Ferdinand, and another rejects the Westphalian count in favor of Sir Giles Squirrel." }, { "name": "The cordelier", "aliases": [ "a worthy cordelier" ], "description": "An unnamed friar who is hearing the brothel’s young women’s confessions and giving them absolution before they attend the guests." }, { "name": "Westphalian count’s valet", "aliases": [ "the German’s valet" ], "description": "An unnamed servant struck in the head by a candlestick thrown during his master’s quarrel with Sir Giles Squirrel." }, { "name": "Sir Stentor Stile", "aliases": [ "Sir Stentor", "the English jockey", "the Briton", "the stranger", "the new-comer", "the brother knight" ], "description": "An eccentric, wealthy English baronet who arrives in Paris dressed as a jockey and wins Ferdinand’s confidence. He and Sir Giles Squirrel are sharpers who work together to fleece strangers; Sir Stentor takes Ferdinand’s money, jewels, and valuables at dice." }, { "name": "Sir Stentor’s spaniel", "aliases": [ "Sweetlips", "the bitch", "the creature" ], "description": "Sir Stentor Stile’s spaniel, which accompanies him to the Paris dining-house and fails to recognize Sir Giles beneath his fashionable dress and perfumes." }, { "name": "Squire Snaffle", "aliases": [ "the Squire" ], "description": "An unnamed squire who wagers a thousand pounds that Sir Stentor Stile will not travel alone to Paris and appear in public each day for a month in his jockey’s clothes." }, { "name": "Sir Giles Squirrel’s valet", "aliases": [ "his valet" ], "description": "An unnamed servant who carries Sir Giles Squirrel to bed after he passes out from drinking." }, { "name": "Sir Giles Squirrel’s mother", "aliases": [ "his own mother" ], "description": "Sir Giles Squirrel’s mother, mentioned when Sir Stentor jokes that his friend could rob her without being recognized." }, { "name": "Sir Stentor’s mother", "aliases": [ "mother" ], "description": "Sir Stentor Stile’s mother, mentioned as one of his family’s regular card-game companions." }, { "name": "Sister Nan", "aliases": [ "sister Nan" ], "description": "Sir Stentor Stile’s sister, mentioned as a participant in the family’s games." }, { "name": "Brother Numps", "aliases": [ "brother Numps" ], "description": "Sir Stentor Stile’s brother, mentioned as a participant in the family’s games." }, { "name": "Polish noble family", "aliases": [ "a noble family of Poland" ], "description": "The unnamed family Ferdinand falsely claims to head, saying he has left Poland because of an unresolved affair of honor." }, { "name": "Ambassador", "aliases": [ "the ambassador from a certain court" ], "description": "An unnamed ambassador who entertains Sir Giles, Sir Stentor, and the French abbé at a private assembly, where they boast of cheating Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Don Alonzo de Zelos", "aliases": [ "Don Alonzo" ], "description": "Don Diego’s late father, whose family feud with Don Gonzales Orgullo’s house shaped their relationship. Don Gonzales says Diego’s conduct would have reconciled him with Don Alonzo had he still been alive." }, { "name": "Donna Estifania", "aliases": [ "Madame d’Orgullo", "Estifania", "Don Gonzales’s lady", "the virtuous Estifania" ], "description": "Don Gonzales Orgullo’s wife and Antonia’s mother. She welcomes Don Diego after he saves her husband and supports his marriage to Antonia; she dies not long after Don Gonzales." }, { "name": "Don Gonzales Orgullo’s uncle", "aliases": [ "an uncle of Don Gonzales" ], "description": "An unnamed uncle of Don Gonzales who is staying at the Orgullo house and speaks with Don Diego while Donna Estifania writes to her husband." }, { "name": "Don Diego and Antonia’s son", "aliases": [ "their son" ], "description": "The infant son of Don Diego de Zelos and Antonia, who dies in infancy." }, { "name": "English-speaking Imperial officer", "aliases": [ "the unfortunate stranger", "the colonel of a regiment of horse" ], "description": "An unnamed wounded officer mentioned earlier in the book; Ferdinand’s mother finds him on a battlefield and helps him reach his tent." }, { "name": "Portuguese dragoon", "aliases": [ "the ruffian" ], "description": "An unnamed Portuguese cavalryman who is about to strike Don Gonzales Orgullo after his horse throws him during a retreat. Don Diego shoots him." }, { "name": "Portuguese horsemen", "aliases": [ "the Portuguese horse" ], "description": "An unnamed group of Portuguese cavalry who cut off Don Diego and Don Gonzales Orgullo from the retreating Spanish forces." }, { "name": "Saragossa battlefield messenger", "aliases": [ "the messenger" ], "description": "An unnamed messenger who informs Don Gonzales Orgullo that his regiment is being routed at the Battle of Saragossa." }, { "name": "Antonia’s suitors", "aliases": [ "Spanish cavaliers", "young gentlemen of rank and distinction" ], "description": "Unnamed Spanish noblemen who court Antonia and seek her hand in marriage." }, { "name": "Don Manuel’s rivals", "aliases": [ "other object" ], "description": "Unnamed men whom Don Diego considers as possible romantic attachments of Serafina when he investigates whether her heart is already engaged." }, { "name": "Tyrolean gamester", "aliases": [ "the Tyrolese", "Ferdinand’s ally", "the stranger", "his confederate", "his associate", "the Tyrolese associate", "his fellow-traveller", "the understrapper" ], "description": "An unnamed native of Tyrol who lives by cheating at play and allies with Ferdinand. He serves with Ferdinand in garrison, deserts with him to the French camp, then steals Ferdinand’s valuables while he sleeps and leaves him with a parcel of nails." }, { "name": "Officers in Renaldo’s camp", "aliases": [ "the officers", "the whole neighbourhood" ], "description": "Unnamed officers who rush to Renaldo’s tent when Ferdinand raises an alarm about the theft. They accept his performance and attribute the loss to the deserter." }, { "name": "French sentinel", "aliases": [ "the sentinel", "the soldier" ], "description": "An unnamed French soldier on an advanced post who questions Ferdinand and the Tyrolese after they accidentally reach the French camp, then directs them to the next post." }, { "name": "French serjeant", "aliases": [ "the serjeant’s party" ], "description": "An unnamed French serjeant who receives Ferdinand and the Tyrolese at the next post and forwards them to the grand guard." }, { "name": "Officer of the grand guard", "aliases": [ "the officer" ], "description": "An unnamed French officer who receives the two deserters and introduces them to Count Coigny the next morning." }, { "name": "Count Coigny", "aliases": [ "Count Coigny" ], "description": "A French count who politely receives Ferdinand and the Tyrolese as volunteers in the French army." }, { "name": "French officers of rank", "aliases": [ "many French officers", "his new patrons" ], "description": "Unnamed French officers who regard Ferdinand favorably and offer recommendations to nobles at Versailles, believing his claimed background and motives." }, { "name": "Hussar", "aliases": [ "an hussar" ], "description": "An unnamed hussar who wounds Ferdinand in the face with his sword during the affair of Halleh." }, { "name": "Peasant guide", "aliases": [ "his guide", "the conductor" ], "description": "An unnamed peasant hired by Ferdinand near Bar-le-duc to guide him toward Chalons. He disappears during a storm in a forest, leaving Ferdinand to suspect that he is connected to robbers." }, { "name": "Two assassins", "aliases": [ "the assassins", "the ruffians", "the robbers", "the banditti" ], "description": "Two unnamed robbers who enter the cottage at night and stab the corpse Ferdinand has placed in the bed, believing it to be their sleeping victim. They leave to seek more prey after ordering the old woman to keep the door locked." }, { "name": "Old cottage woman’s husband", "aliases": [ "the faggot-maker" ], "description": "An unnamed faggot-maker who is away selling his wares when Ferdinand arrives at the cottage; the woman says he will probably return the following morning." }, { "name": "Mademoiselle’s maid", "aliases": [ "her maid" ], "description": "An unnamed maid present when Ferdinand pretends to faint; Mademoiselle orders her to support his head." }, { "name": "Physician", "aliases": [ "the doctor" ], "description": "An unnamed physician summoned when Ferdinand pretends to be ill; his treatment makes Ferdinand’s feigned illness real." }, { "name": "Two chambermaids", "aliases": [ "the chambermaids", "the domestics" ], "description": "Two unnamed servants whose rooms Mademoiselle orders searched after her purse disappears. One is Teresa’s rival and steals the purse; she confesses and is pardoned." }, { "name": "Guilty chambermaid", "aliases": [ "the Hungarian chambermaid", "the guilty Abigail", "the offender", "the accuser" ], "description": "A Hungarian chambermaid who steals Mademoiselle’s purse after Ferdinand plants it as a trap. She confesses, returns it, and is pardoned, but later is imprisoned and dismissed after the diamond earrings disappear." }, { "name": "Renaldo’s governor", "aliases": [ "the governor" ], "description": "An unnamed guardian who accompanies Renaldo and Ferdinand to Vienna and is charged with overseeing Renaldo’s conduct." }, { "name": "Lacquey", "aliases": [ "the lackey" ], "description": "An unnamed servant attending Renaldo who circulates a report damaging Ferdinand’s reputation by exposing the obscurity of his birth." }, { "name": "Wilhelmina’s mother", "aliases": [ "the jeweller’s wife" ], "description": "The unnamed woman married to the jeweller and Wilhelmina’s mother; Ferdinand deceives her by cultivating jealousy between her and her daughter." }, { "name": "Jewellers’ meeting companion", "aliases": [ "another tradesman" ], "description": "An unnamed tradesman who quarrels with the jeweller over drinks and strikes him on the forehead with a candlestick." }, { "name": "Lying-in hostess", "aliases": [ "a third person of her own sex" ], "description": "An unnamed woman whom the jeweller’s wife is visiting to assist at a lying-in; the wife proposes her house as a discreet meeting place." }, { "name": "Academy pupils", "aliases": [ "Ferdinand’s fellow-students", "Renaldo’s fellow-pupils" ], "description": "Unnamed students at the Vienna academy who attend a merry-making with Renaldo. One such gathering leaves Renaldo drunk and vulnerable to the Tyrolean gamester." }, { "name": "Count Melvil’s friends at court", "aliases": [ "the Count’s friends belonging to the Imperial court" ], "description": "Unnamed acquaintances of Count Melvil who receive letters of recommendation for Renaldo and Ferdinand in Vienna." }, { "name": "Needy author", "aliases": [ "the bard", "the poet" ], "description": "An unnamed author whose manuscript is first scorned and then praised by two rival critics; the narrator tells his story as an example of how contradiction can change someone’s judgment." }, { "name": "First critic", "aliases": [ "the first condemner", "the patron" ], "description": "An unnamed patron and critic who initially treats a needy author’s manuscript with contempt, then champions it after another critic mocks his patronage." }, { "name": "Second critic", "aliases": [ "the appellant’s critic", "the rival" ], "description": "An unnamed critic who feigns contempt for a needy author’s manuscript to provoke the first critic into defending and praising it." }, { "name": "Literati member", "aliases": [ "another member" ], "description": "An unnamed member of the literary circle who brings the manuscript into discussion at the second critic’s request." }, { "name": "Count Melvil’s son’s inamorata", "aliases": [ "a certain inamorata" ], "description": "An unnamed woman said to have captivated Renaldo; Count Melvil suspects his son may have stolen Mademoiselle’s jewels for her." }, { "name": "Young lady of fashion", "aliases": [ "a certain young lady" ], "description": "An unnamed fashionable young woman said to be enamoured of Ferdinand, according to Teresa’s insinuations to Mademoiselle." }, { "name": "T. 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He dies after being shot in the trenches before Temiswaer." }, { "name": "Cardinal de Retz", "aliases": [], "description": "A historian cited by the narrator for his observation that historians may misjudge the motives behind people’s actions." }, { "name": "Homer", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient poet mentioned in a comparison about the uncertain place of Ferdinand’s birth." }, { "name": "Prince Eugene", "aliases": [ "the renowned Prince Eugene", "the Imperial general" ], "description": "The Austrian commander whose army wins victories in Hungary and at Belgrade." }, { "name": "Wounded Imperial colonel", "aliases": [ "Colonel Melvil", "Count Melvil", "the Count", "the colonel", "the patron" ], "description": "A Scottish cavalry colonel whom Ferdinand’s mother rescues from the battlefield. 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He shoots and kills Ferdinand’s mother as she tries to strip him." }, { "name": "Two foot soldiers", "aliases": [ "the sentries" ], "description": "Two unnamed soldiers who plot to rob Count Melvil’s tent and desert to the enemy; they are caught and executed." }, { "name": "Schoolmaster", "aliases": [ "the pedagogue", "the pedant" ], "description": "The boys’ schoolmaster, who misjudges a copied translation and wrongly accuses the young Count of plagiarism." }, { "name": "Tutor", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed tutor employed in Count Melvil’s household to oversee the education of the heir." }, { "name": "Dancing-master", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed instructor under whose direction Ferdinand learns polished manners and dancing." }, { "name": "Music-master", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed instructor whom Count Melvil hires to teach Ferdinand the principles of music." }, { "name": "Ferdinand’s biological father candidates", "aliases": [ "his mother’s admirers" ], "description": "The unnamed men who courted Ferdinand’s mother; the text says she had so many lovers that she could not identify Ferdinand’s father." }, { "name": "Marlborough", "aliases": [ "the renowned Marlborough" ], "description": "A commander whose final year in command dates the period when Ferdinand’s mother accompanied the allied army." }, { "name": "Thomson", "aliases": [ "the Author of the “Seasons”" ], "description": "An unnamed-by-first-name poet referred to as the author of The Seasons; the dedication recalls that he planned to retract praise of an unworthy patron." }, { "name": "Richard", "aliases": [], "description": "A theatrical villain mentioned in the dedication as an example of a wicked character whose schemes are exposed." }, { "name": "Maskwell", "aliases": [], "description": "A theatrical villain mentioned in the dedication as an example of perfidy brought to light." }, { "name": "Bevil", "aliases": [], "description": "A theatrical character mentioned in the dedication as an example of a virtuous person rewarded with happiness." }, { "name": "Edward", "aliases": [], "description": "A theatrical character mentioned in the dedication as an example of a virtuous person who triumphs." }, { "name": "Petronius Arbiter", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient author cited by the narrator as an example of writing that polite readers accept despite its coarse subjects." }, { "name": "Ovid", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient poet whose amorous writing is mentioned by the narrator." }, { "name": "Lucian", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient author whose story of an ass is cited by the narrator." }, { "name": "Guzman d’Alfarache", "aliases": [], "description": "The protagonist of a work mentioned by the narrator for its account of a life of poverty." }, { "name": "Don Quixote", "aliases": [], "description": "A literary character mentioned with his squire as an example of humble adventures." }, { "name": "Don Quixote’s squire", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed literary character mentioned alongside Don Quixote." }, { "name": "Scarron", "aliases": [], "description": "An author whose ragged troop of strollers is mentioned by the narrator." }, { "name": "Gil Blas", "aliases": [], "description": "A literary character whose lowly circumstances are cited by the narrator." }, { "name": "Swift", "aliases": [], "description": "An author mentioned for depicting a coxcomb’s profane speech." }, { "name": "Pope", "aliases": [], "description": "An author mentioned alongside Swift for depicting a coxcomb’s profane speech." }, { "name": "Rabelais", "aliases": [], "description": "An author mentioned for the comic and coarse material in his writing." }, { "name": "Dean", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed dean whose description of a lady’s dressing-room is mentioned by the narrator." }, { "name": "Catullus", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient satirist cited by the narrator." }, { "name": "Juvenal", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient satirist cited by the narrator." }, { "name": "Persius", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient satirist cited by the narrator." }, { "name": "Lucan", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient author cited by the narrator." }, { "name": "Semiramis", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient queen invoked in a comparison to Ferdinand’s mother’s courage." }, { "name": "Tomyris", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient queen invoked in a comparison to Ferdinand’s mother’s courage." }, { "name": "Zenobia", "aliases": [], "description": "An ancient queen invoked in a comparison to Ferdinand’s mother’s courage." }, { "name": "Thalestris", "aliases": [], "description": "A legendary queen invoked in a comparison to Ferdinand’s mother’s courage." }, { "name": "W. 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