The Mirror of the Sea · Character

J. M. K. B.

A friend or acquaintance of the narrator, remembered with affection.

minor

Also known as Poor J. M. K. B.

J. M. K. B.'s tie to Don Carlos is one of the pressures that moves The Mirror of the Sea—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.

The second officer of the disabled steamer, who shows the narrator the chart of the ship's drift and admits to crying from the distress of the dead ship.

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J. M. K. B. first appears in 0064 the heroic age.

With Don Carlos (social): Don Carlos and J. M. K. B. are acquaintances, possibly through political or social circles.

In XIX: The second officer of the disabled steamer, who shows the narrator the chart of the ship's drift and admits to crying from the distress of the dead ship.

Later, in XLI: The oldest member of the syndicate, a North Carolinian gentleman who lives by his sword and later dies in a Balkanian squabble.

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Don Carlos
social · ambivalent

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XIX
The second officer of the disabled steamer, who shows the narrator the chart of the ship's drift and admits to crying from the distress of the dead ship.
XLI
The oldest member of the syndicate, a North Carolinian gentleman who lives by his sword and later dies in a Balkanian squabble.
XLII
Elegant and severe, he enters the salon after a Carlist success and is questioned by Doña Rita about his readiness to join the royal headquarters.

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