# Maurice Cumming — Short Fiction character guide

> Maurice Cumming in Short Fiction by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Maurice, Poor Maurice, poor Maurice, subjects Maurice Cumming, young Cumming, Dear Maurice

**First appearance:** 0015-the-mistletoe-bough

## Snapshot

A cautious young visitor at Kirkby Cliffe, torn between declaring love for Isabel Lownd and ridiculing himself for the very idea.

## Who they are

Maurice Archer has said nothing to Isabel that could not be proclaimed from the church tower, yet he thinks of her constantly and wavers between certainty and self-mockery. Mrs. Lownd watches him nervously, sure he is honorable but unsure of her daughter's heart. His offhand remark that Christmas is a bore wounds Isabel deeply, and his halting courtship becomes the quiet engine of the household's emotional weather.

## In the story

### [Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_4_se/chapters/miss-sarah-jack-of-spanish-town-jamaica)

A struggling sugar-grower and nephew of Miss Jack; he is torn between his duties at Mount Pleasant and his political role, and is in love with Marian Leslie.

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