He was a handsome youth with an ingenuous face and a most engaging laugh.He was very young, not more than nineteen.Ĭarton, Sydney ( A Tale of Two Cities ) PIX Barrister in the employ of Mr Stryver.idlest and most unpromising of men. He marries Ada Clare and later dies when his health declines as the estate he hopes to acquire is consumed in court costs. (top)Ĭarstone, Richard ( Bleak House ) PIX Ward of Mr Jarndyce and a party to the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. She prayed forgiveness the next moment, and was sorry but the first was the emotion of her heart. She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands. (top)Ĭaroline ( A Christmas Carol ) Wife of the debtor who cannot help being glad that Ebenezer Scrooge is dead and that their debt will be transferred elsewhere at which time they will be ready with the money. They certainly were: it was impossible to look at his face without being forcibly reminded of a chubby street-door knocker, half-lion half-monkey and the comparison might be extended to his whole character and conversation. He used to say of himself that although his features were not regularly handsome, they were striking. Mr Calton was a superannuated beau – an old boy. He woos the widow Mrs Maplesone, another boarder, who later sues him for breach of promise. (top)Ĭarlton, Mr ( Sketches by Boz: The Boarding House ) A boarder at Mrs Tibbs' boarding house.
A well-favoured man of good stature and military bearing, in a great cloak. The Uncommercial Traveller visits the man and undertakes a commission to deliver a huge bottle of wine to the former prisoner's benefactor. (top)Ĭarlavero, Giovanni ( The Uncommercial Traveller - The Italian Prisoner ) Former political prisoner in Italy who is freed with the help of an Englishman. He is looked upon with scorn by his younger brother because he embezzled money from the firm when a young man. (top)Ĭarker, John ( Dombey and Son ) Older brother of James although called "the Junior" because of his low position at the firm of Dombey and Son. It was impossible to escape the observation of them, for he showed them whenever he spoke and bore so wide a smile upon his countenance (a smile, however, very rarely, indeed, extending beyond his mouth), that there was something in it like the snarl of a cat. A gentleman thirty-eight or forty years old, of a florid complexion, and with two unbroken rows of glistening teeth, whose regularity and whiteness were quite distressing. Brother of John and Harriet Carker, he elopes with Dombey's wife and is later killed when struck by a train. (top)Ĭarker, James ( Dombey and Son ) PIX Opportunistic manager at Dombey and Son. Harriet lives with John and the two inherit James' fortune and donate it, anonymously, to Mr Dombey. (top)Ĭarker, Harriet ( Dombey and Son ) Sister to James and John. (top)Ĭaptain Tom ( Great Expectations ) Prisoner in Newgate Prison who is visited by Wemmick and Pip. (top)Ĭape, Mr ( Sketches by Boz: Mrs Joseph Porter ) Violinist in the Gattleton's private theatrical. Indeed, when I knew her better I began to think it was a Mercy she had any features at all, so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face. This lady, whose name was Camilla, very much reminded me of my sister, with the difference that she was older, and (as I found when I caught sight of her) of a blunter cast of features. (top)Ĭamilla ( Great Expectations ) Wife of Raymond and sister of Matthew Pocket and one of Miss Havisham's toady relations hoping to gain an inheritance. Cabbery ( Nicholas Nickleby ) Former suitor of Mrs Nickleby.
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