Short Fiction · Character
Charley Moore
A stock-exchange friend of Anson Hunter, newly rich and suddenly wistful for the married life he once mocked, who watches his friend's family scandal with growing unease.
supporting
Also known as Charley, Charles, Charles Impatiently
First appearance: I
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Horace's cousin and a senior at Sheffield, who arranges for Marcia to visit Horace as a prank.
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Charley Moore moves through the same prosperous set as Anson Hunter, a man with a seat on the Exchange and twenty-five thousand a year who once swore he'd never marry. Now, as his friends disappear behind domestic doors…
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Character groups
- Varied fates and transformations
- Social climbers and romantics
- Love and obsession
- Crime and entanglement
- Southern social drama
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