# Mr. Ruggles — Some Do Not … character guide

> Mr. Ruggles in Some Do Not … by Ford Madox Ford.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ruggles, Ruggles Peebles, Peebles

**First appearance:** 0000-part-i-i

## Snapshot

A shady, top-hatted gossip and hanger-on of the Tietjens family, employed by Mark to compile a dossier on his brother Christopher.

## Who they are

Ruggles lives by collecting and trading in other people's secrets, and he dislikes Christopher Tietjens precisely because Christopher never gossips. Commissioned by Mark and old Mr. Tietjens to find out what Christopher is doing — and whether he needs money — he works the drawing rooms and holy-of-holies of English society with a libeller's zeal. He matters because his dossier is the machinery by which private life becomes public ruin, and because he believes, wrongly, that he controls the book in which the doomed are written down.

## In the story

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/chapters/part-ii-iii)

Collects and spreads damaging information about Christopher to Mark and Mr. Tietjens senior.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/chapters/part-ii-vi)

Confronts Tietjens about his club resignation; reacts with shock and indignation when Tietjens threatens to resign and re-resign as an insult.

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