# The Adventures of David Simple (1904)/Dramatis Personae

Dramatis Personae
David Simple, elder son and rightful heir of Daniel Simple, mercer of Ludgate Hill. :
| Daniel Simple, his wicked brother. |||
| John and Peggy: | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | two servants suborned by Daniel to witness the forged will disinheriting his brother. |
| Mr. Johnson, a jeweller. |||
| His elder daughter, who marries a rich Jew. |||
| Nancy, his second daughter, who jilts David and marries Mr. Nokes |||
| Betty Trusty, her maid. |||
| A Carpenter, who extols his ugly and lazy spouse as the best wife in the world. |||
| Another man, with a patient and industrious wife, whom he abuses. |||
| Mr. Orgueil, the censorious critic, who introduces David to the various sorts of life in London. |||
| Mr. Spatter, who introduces David to the fashionable coteries, and pulls to pieces, ridicules and abuses all the people they meet with. |||
| Mr. Varnish, who sings the praises of everybody, and has "the appearance of good-nature, but is not at all affected with the sufferings of others." |||
| Lady———, Cynthia's tyrannical protectress. |||
| Cynthia, an unfortunate young lady, loved by David. "After being hated by her family as a wit (she) is insulted as a fool by her patroness." |||
| The Earl of———, Lady———'s nephew, who proposes to Cynthia. |||
| Valentine, an unfortunate young man, befriended by David. |||
| Camilla, his more unfortunate sister, whom David loves. |||
| Mr.———, their father, deceived by Livia. |||
| Livia, his second wife, whose beauty belies her odious disposition, and who drives Valentine and Camilla from their father's house by her remorseless persecution. |||
| A Clergyman | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Cynthia's fellow-travellers in the coach. |
| An Atheist | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Cynthia's fellow-travellers in the coach. |
| A Butterfly, "as he had neither profession nor characters, I know not what other name to give him", ​ | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Cynthia's fellow-travellers in the coach. |
| The Marquis of Stainville, a chivalrous French gentleman. |||
| Isabelle, another unfortunate young lady, his sister. |||
| Julie, her friend, a passionate girl, who dies of a broken heart. |||
| Monsieur Le Buisson, who loves Isabelle, and is loved by Julie. |||
| The Chevalier Dumont, a French Adonis, irresistible to the ladies, but of invincible virtue; Stainville's friend. |||
| Monsieur Le Neuf, a villainous friend of Stainville and Dumont. |||
| Dorimene, Stainville's wife, who falls uncontrollably in love with Dumont. |||
| The Comte de———, her father. |||
| Vieuville, Dorimene's brother. He is madly in love with Isabelle, but fortunately falls still more madly in love with some one else. |||
| Pandolph, an old servant of Stainville's. |||
| Sacharissa and Corinna | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Two English young ladies at Paris, whose contrasts of character point the moral of Cynthia's story. |
| Monsieur Le Vive, a man who always acts according to his passions. |||
| The Balancer, a man who finds every act in life as difficult as an abstruse mathematical problem. |||