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Fiction

Notes Horatio

Horatio is an industrious lawyer who intended to marry Leonora but lost her to the wealthy
and flamboyant Bellarmine.

Bellarmine

Bellarmine is a Frenchified cavalier who values Leonora’s beauty enough to steal her away
from Horatio but who finally rejects her when her father refuses to supply a dowry.

Leonora’s Father
Leonora’s Father is a miserly old gentleman who refuses to bestow any money on his daughter
during his life and thereby causes her to lose Bellarmine as a suitor.

Leonora’s Aunt

Leonora’s chaperone during the period of her courtship by Horatio and then Bellarmine;
encourages Leonora to pursue her financial self-interest in choosing a mate.

Mrs. Grave-airs
Mrs. Grave-airs snobbish stage-coach passenger who objects to traveling with the footman
Joseph but turns out to be the daughter of a man who was once a lower servant.

Sportsman

Encounters Mr. Adams while out shooting one night; extolls bravery when conversing with
Adams but flees the scene when the cries of a distressed woman are heard.

The Justice
The Justice is a local magistrate who does not take his responsibilities very seriously. He
handles the case of Mr. Adams and Fanny when Fanny’s attacker accuses them of having
beaten and robbed him.

Mr. Wilson
Mr. Wilson is a gentleman who, after a turbulent youth, has retired to the country with his
wife and children and lives a life of virtue and simplicity. His eldest son, who turns out to
have been Joseph, was stolen by gypsies as a child.

Mrs. Wilson
Mrs. Wilson is the wife of Wilson. She once redeemed him from debtor’s prison, having been
the object of his undeclared love for some time.

Pedlar

Pedlar is an apparent instrument of providence, who pays one of Mr. Adams’s many inn bills,
rescues Mr. Adams’s drowning son, and figures out the respective parentages of both Joseph
and Fanny.

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