A good-natured but moronic member of the Beargarden Club, and a friend of Lord Silverbridge. He tried unsuccessfully to marry Isabel Boncassen. Urged by his family to court Marie Melmotte for her money, he admitted that he was too indolent to make the effort.
In Ireland staunch Protestantism consists too much in a hatred of Papistry.
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
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