David Copperfield · Character
Mr. Waterbrook
A pompous London merchant who employs Traddles.
minor
Also known as Waterbrook
First appearance: xxiv my first dissipation
Mr. Waterbrook shows up with force in Good and Bad Angels. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Hosts the dinner party, extols the virtue of 'Blood,' and speaks condescendingly of Traddles as a good fellow who is 'nobody's enemy but his own.'
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See Mr. Waterbrook in xxiv my first dissipation