Monuments (The), Poor family in London.
Father, a convict who gets out of prison on a ticket-of-leave.
Mother, Hester, an honest washerwoman, afterwards in almshouse, and blind.
Claude. Bright young fellow, educated by Lady Mildred Eldredge.
Melenda, a work-girl, fierce and virtuous, starving, yet independent.
Joe, plumber and house-decorator, typical British workman.
Polly, adopted by Lady Mildred, called “Violet,” and brought up with her own daughter.
Sam, a red-hot socialist, ready with impracticable plans of leagues and reformation.—Walter Besant, Children of Gibeon (1890).
Montserrat (Conrade, marquis of), a crusader.—Sir W. Scott, The Talisman (time, Richard I.).
Moody (John), the guardian of Peggy Thrift, an heiress, whom he brings up in the country, wholly without society. John Moody is morose, suspicious, and unsocial. When 50 years of age, and Peggy 19, he wants to marry her, but is out-witted by “the country girl,” who prefers Belville, a young man of more suitable age.