Jack, Mercantile. A representative of the sailors employed in the merchant marine ▼. Pur Marroncie Jack. Jobson, Jesse, Number Two. A Mormon emigrant; the head of a family of persons II Bound for the Great Salt Lake Kinch, Horace. An ice of the King's Bench Prison, where be des X Ngi: Walk He was a likely man or lock at, in the prime of life, well to do, as clever as be needed as be, and popular among many friends. He was suitably married, and had bestby and pretty mûdren ; but, „ke some fair-looking houses or fairbooking ships, be suck the dry rot. ... Those who knew him had not nigh Quae saying. – So wel of“ so comfortably established" with such hope before — . . . when, ja! the man was all dry rot and dust. Kindheart, Mr. An Englishman of an amiable nature, great enthusiasm, and no discretion XXVI. Medicine-Men of Civiliza Klem, Mr. A weak cid man, meagre and mouldy, who is never to be sexa detached from a flat pint of beer in a pewter pot. XVI Arvadian London. Klem, Mrs. His wife; an elderly woman, laboring under a chronic snif, and having a dejected consciousness that she is not justified in appearing on the surface of the earth. XVI Arcadian London. Klem, Miss. Their daughter, apparently ten years older than either her father or mother. XVL Arcadian London. Mellows, Mr. J. Landlord of the "Dolphin's Head." XXII. An Old Stage-Coaching House. Mercy. A nurse who relates diabolical stories to the Uncommercial Traveller, when a child, with a fiendish enjoyment of his terrors. XV. Nurse's Stories Mitts, Mrs. A pensioner at Titbull's; a tidy, well-favored widow, with a propitiatory way of passing her hands over and under one another. XXVII. TiibuiTs Almshouses. Murderer, Captain. A diabolical wretch, admitted into the best society, and possessing immense wealth. His missior is matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides. XV. Nurse's Stories. Nan. A sailor's mistress. V. Poor Mercantile Jack. Onowenever, Mrs. Mother of a young lady (the Dora Spenlow of David Copperfield," and the Flora Firching of "Little Dor rit ") ardently loved by the Uncommercial Traveller in his youth XIX. Birthday Celebrations. It is unnecessary to name her more particularly. She was older than I, and had rvaded every chink and crevice of my mind for three or four years. I had held fumes of imaginary conversations with her mother on the subject of our union; and I had written letters, more in number than Horace Walpole's, to that discreet woman, soliciting her daughter's hand in marriage. I had never had the remotest intention of sending any of those letters: but to write them, and, after a few days tear them up, had been a sublime occupation. Pangloss. An official friend of the Uncommercial Traveller's, lineally descended from the learned doctor of the same name, who was tutor to Candide. VIII. The Great Tasmania's Cargo. In his personal character, he is as humane and worthy a gentleman as any I know; in his official capacity, he unfortunately preaches the doctrines of his renowned ancestor, by demonstrating, on all occasions, that we live in the best of all possible official worlds. Parkle, Mr. A friend of the Uncommercial Traveller's. XIV. Chambers. Quickear. A policeman. V. Poor Mercantile Jack. Quinch, Mrs. The oldest pensioner at Titbull's; a woman who has "totally lost her head." XXVII. Titbull's Almshouses. Refractory, Chief. A surly, discontented female pauper, with a voice in which the tonsils and uvula have gained a diseased ascendency. III. Wapping Workhouse. Refractory, Number Two. Another pauper of the same charac ter. III. Wapping Workhouse. Saggers, Mrs. One of the oldest pensioners at Titbull's, who has split the small community in which she lives into almost as many parties as there are dwellings in the precinct, by standing her pail outside her dwelling. XXVII. Titbull's Almshouses. Salcy, P., Family. A troupe of dramatic artists, fifteen in number, under the management of Monsieur P. Salcy. XXV. In the French-Flemish Country. Sharpeye. A policeman. V. Poor Mercantile Jack. An old school-fellow of the Uncommercial Traveller; åfterwards a physician in Dullborough (where most of us come from who come from a country town). XII. Dullborough Town. Specks, Mrs. His wife, formerly Lucy Green; an old friend of the Uncommercial Traveller's. XII. Dullborough Town. Squires, Olympia. An old flame of the Uncommercial Traveller's. XIX. Birthday Celebrations. Olympia was most beautiful (of course); and I loved her to that degree, that I used to be obliged to get out of my little bed, in the night, expressly to exclaim to Solitude, “O Olympia Squires!" Straudenheim. A shop-keeper at Strasbourg; a large-lipped pear-nosed old man, with white hair and keen eyes, though near sighted. VII. Travelling Abroad. Sweeney, Mrs. A professional laundress, in figure extremely like an old family umbrella. XIV. Chambers. Testator, Mr. An occupant of a very dreary set of chambers, in Lyon's Inn, which he furnishes with articles he finds locked up in one of the cellars, and having no owner, so far as is known to any one. He is afterwards visited, late at night, by a man considerably sodden with liquor, who examines every article, claims them all as his own, and promises to call again the next morning, punctually at ten o'clock, but who fails to do so. XIV. Chambers. Whether he was a ghost, or a spectral illusion of conscience, or a drunken man who had no business there, or the drunken, rightful owner of the furniture, with a transitory gleam of memory; whether he got safe home, or had no home to get to; whether he died of liquor on the way, or lived in liquor ever afterwards, he never was heard of more. Trampfoot. A policeman. V. Poor Mercantile Jack. A performer attached to a booth at a fair. He is a thin and sallow man of a weakly aspect. XXV. In the French-Flemish Country. Victualler, Mr. Licensed. Proprietor of a singing-house fre- Wackley, Mr. A coroner; a nobly patient and humane man. emigrant, elected by XX. Bound for the Wiltshire. A simple, fresh-colored farm-laborer, of eight and thirty. XX. Bound for the Great Salt Lake. |