Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama | Page 2

W. VON KAULBACH
RHODOPE, THE EGYPTIAN PRINCESS FERD. KELLER
RICHLAND (MISS) VISITS MR. HONEYWOOD W. P. FRITH ROB
ROY PARTING RASHLEIGH AND FRANCIS OSBALDISTONE
J. B. MCDONALD ROBSART (AMY) ROLAND (MADAME)
ALBERT LYNCH ROLAND AT THE BATTLE OF
RONCESVALLES LOUIS GUESNET ROMEO AND JULIET IN
FRIAR LAWRENCE'S CELL CARL BECKER ROSE AND
BLANCHE (DAGOBERT WITH) EDWARD H. CORBOULD
ROUMESTAN (NUMA) EMILE BAYARD RUGGIERO ON THE
HIPPOGRIFF GUSTAVE DORÉ

CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION, AND THE
DRAMA.
=Mark Tapley=, a serving companion of Martin Chuzzlewit, who goes
out with him to Eden, in North America. Mark Tapley thinks there is
no credit in being jolly in easy circumstances; but when in Eden he
found every discomfort, lost all his money, was swindled by every one,
and was almost killed by fevers, then indeed he felt it would be a real
credit "to be jolly under the circumstances."--C. Dickens, Martin
Chuzzlewit (1843).
=Markham=, a gentleman in the train of the earl of Sussex.--Sir W.
Scott, Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).
Markham (Mrs.), pseudonym of Mrs. Elizabeth Perrose[TN-1] (born
Elizabeth Cartwright), authoress of History of England, etc.
=Markleham= (Mrs.), the mother of Annie. Devoted to pleasure, she
always maintained that she indulged in it for "Annie's sake." Mrs.
Markleham is generally referred to as "the old soldier."--C. Dickens,

David Copperfield (1849).
=Marksman=, one of Fortunio's seven attendants. He saw so clearly
and to such a distance, that he generally bandaged his eyes in order to
temper the great keenness of his sight.--Comtesse D'Aunoy, Fairy
Tales ("Fortunio," 1682).
=Marlborough= (The duke of), John Churchill. He was called by
Marshal Turenne Le Bel Anglais (1650-1722).
=Marlow= (Sir Charles), the kind-hearted old friend of Squire
Hardcastle.
Young Marlow, son of Sir Charles. "Among women of reputation and
virtue he is the modestest man alive; but his acquaintances give him a
very different character among women of another stamp" (act i. 1).
Having mistaken Hardcastle's house for an inn, and Miss Hardcastle for
the barmaid, he is quite at his ease, and makes love freely. When fairly
caught, he discovers that the supposed "inn" is a private house, and the
supposed barmaid is the squire's daughter; but the ice of his shyness
being broken, he has no longer any difficulty in loving according to his
station.--Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
When Goldsmith was between 16 and 17 he set out for Edgworthstown,
and finding night coming on, asked a man which was the "best house"
in the town--meaning the best inn. The man pointed to the house of Sir
Ralph Fetherstone (or Mr. Fetherstone), and Oliver, entering the parlor,
found the master of the mansion sitting at a good fire. Oliver told him
he desired to pass the night there, and ordered him to bring in supper.
"Sir Ralph" knowing his customer, humored the joke, which Oliver did
not discover till next day, when he called for his bill. (We are told in
Notes and Queries that Ralph Fetherstone was only Mr., but his
grandson was Sir Thomas).
=Marmaduke Wharne.= Eccentric old Englishman long resident in
America. Benevolent and beneficent, but gruff in manner and
speech.--A. D. T. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite's Summer (1866).

=Marmaduke= (Sir). A man who has lost all earth can give--wealth,
love, fame and friends, but thus comforts himself:
"I account it worth All pangs of fair hopes crossed,-- All loves and
honors lost,-- To gain the heavens, at cost Of losing earth."
Theodore Tilton, Sir Marmaduke's Musings (1867).
=Marmion.= Lord Marmion was betrothed to Constance de Beverley,
but he jilted her for Lady Clare, an heiress, who was in love with Ralph
de Wilton. The Lady Clare rejected Lord Marmion's suit, and took
refuge from him in the convent of St. Hilda, in Whitby. Constance took
the veil in the convent of St. Cuthbert, in Holy Isle, but after a time left
the convent clandestinely, was captured, taken back, and buried alive in
the walls of a deep cell. In the mean time, Lord Marmion, being sent by
Henry VIII. on an embassy to James IV. of Scotland, stopped at the hall
of Sir Hugh de Heron, who sent a palmer as his guide. On his return,
Lord Marmion commanded the abbess of St. Hilda to release the Lady
Clare, and place her under the charge of her kinsman, Fitzclare of
Tantallon Hall. Here she met the palmer, who was Ralph de Wilton,
and as Lord Marmion was slain in the battle of Flodden Field, she was
free to marry the man she loved.--Sir W. Scott, Marmion (1808).
Marmion (Lord), a descendant of Robert de Marmion, who obtained
from William the Conqueror, the manor of Scrivelby, in Lincolnshire.
This Robert de Marmion was the first royal champion of England, and
the office remained in the family till the reign of Edward I., when in
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