The Black Moth · Character

Mr. Warburton

A lawyer who knows too much and says too little, doggedly pursuing his master's return while choking on the word 'amends.'

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Also known as Warburton

First appearance: I: At the Chequers Inn, Fallowfield

As a supporting figure in The Black Moth, Mr. Warburton is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

A nervous lawyer who comes to the Chequers Inn to meet Sir Anthony Ferndale, actually Lord John Carstares.

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Mr. Warburton manages the tangled legal affairs of the Carstares family with a mixture of professional precision and barely suppressed anguish. He alone has pieced together the truth of his master's innocence, and the knowledge sits heavily on him as he shuttles between a fugitive earl and a guilt-ridden brother. His scenes crackle with the tension between what he can prove and what he dares to say aloud.

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Aftermath
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Lady Lavinia Carstares
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Lady Lavinia Carstares
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Lady Lavinia Carstares
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I: At the Chequers Inn, Fallowfield
A nervous lawyer who comes to the Chequers Inn to meet Sir Anthony Ferndale, actually Lord John Carstares. He is concerned about Jack's welfare and tries to persuade him to return home.
III: Introducing the Hon. Richard Carstares
The lawyer who receives Richard's confession and delivers a message from the Earl of Wyncham.
IV: Introducing the Lady Lavinia Carstares
Reported to Richard that Jack refuses the earldom and seems unchanged.
Richard Plays the Man
Reports to Richard that Jack Carstares has not been seen for months and may have gone abroad.

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