# The Master of the House — Lavengro character guide

> The Master of the House in Lavengro by George Borrow.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** master of the house

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

The owner of a lodging house where Lavengro stays.

## In the story

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xix)

The narrator's employer, a respectable gentleman lawyer of the old school, kind and rotund, with a bald head and creaking shoes.

### [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxxiii)

The publisher's son, present at dinner but treated with contempt by his father.

### [Chapter XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxxix)

The publisher who torments the narrator with constant demands and alterations to the work.

### [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xli)

The publisher who becomes increasingly furious, pays the narrator in long-dated bills, and cancels his best works.

### [XLIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xliii)

The publisher who hires the narrator; furious over the German translation but eventually calms down and pays the narrator upon completion of the compilation.

### [LI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/li)

Referred to as the Armenian, the master of the counting-room.

### [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxiii)

The intelligent and kind innkeeper who offers the narrator a job keeping hay and corn accounts.

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