# Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure — Character guide

> Key figures in Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure by Edgar Saltus.

- [Mr. Incoul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/mr_incoul.md): Harmon Incoul inherited a mile of Manhattan real estate and a temperament hardened by a loveless boyhood; at nearly forty he emerges from mourning to marry the beautiful, penniless Maida Barhyte. His measured speech and 
- [Lenox Leigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/lenox_leigh.md): Lenox Leigh moves through Parisian clubs and Biarritz seasons with the confidence of a man who recites poetry well and reads husbands poorly. He is mad about Mirette, the ballet's reigning sensation, and coolly calculate
- [Miss Maida Barhyte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/maida_barhyte.md): Maida Barhyte receives Mr. Incoul in a shabby boardinghouse parlor and tells him plainly that her mother wishes the match and she does not, yet the debts and the disappeared inheritance leave her little room. She has the
- [Mr. Blydenburg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/blydenburg.md): Mr. Blydenburg comes to the great Madison Avenue house of an evening, sets up the chessboard, and chatters while Incoul's solitude deepens. He is present at Mrs. Bachelor's reception with his daughter, eager for travel t
- [Mirette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/mirette.md): Mirette arrives at the opera house trailing rumors from Biarritz and a Russian named Balaguine, and when she crosses the foyer men moisten their lips and find them still parched. She is the principal dancer of the new ba
- [Mrs. Incoul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/mrs_incoul.md): She liked to fill the Madison Avenue palace with guests and entertainments, while her husband cared for society as much as for negro minstrels yet insisted she give parties anyway. In the winter after their fifteenth ann
- [Mrs. Barhyte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/mrs_barhyte.md): Mrs. Barhyte belongs to the genteel, cash-poor world of New York boardinghouses, where a good marriage is the only remaining currency. Her husband left next to nothing, the little has vanished, and debts have crept in, s
- [Milly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/milly.md): A young woman connected to the main characters.
- [Karl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/karl.md): A servant or attendant who grows a moustache.
- [Mr. Clarence May](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/clarence_may.md): A character who expostulates in a later chapter.
- [Miss Blydenburg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/miss_blydenburg.md): A female relative of Mr. Blydenburg.
- [De la Dèche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/de_la_deche.md): A minor character with a French name.
- [Mr. Wainwaring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/characters/mr_wainwaring.md): A character who appears in the narrative briefly.

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