The Way We Live Now · Character

Mr. Cohenlupe

Melmotte's smooth City accomplice, a man whose name is spoken between clenched teeth once the great financier's schemes begin to crack.

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Also known as Cohenlupe, Samuel Cohenlupe, Sam

First appearance: The Great Railway to Vera Cruz

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Listed as a director of the railway company; described as a gentleman of the Jewish persuasion and MP for Staines.

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Cohenlupe is the shadowy associate whose respectability Melmotte borrows and whose disappearance, when the Mexican Railway and the great house of cards begin to tremble, is the first clear signal that ruin is coming. He is not a man of grand gestures but of quiet arrangements, and his name in the mouths of City men carries both the promise of profit and the smell of fraud. His vanishing act forces Melmotte to face his creditors alone, and it is one of the hinges on which the novel's financial catastrophe turns.

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The Great Railway to Vera Cruz
Listed as a director of the railway company; described as a gentleman of the Jewish persuasion and MP for Staines.
The Boardroom
Whispers with Melmotte during the board meeting, helping to delay proceedings.
XL: “Unanimity Is the Very Soul of These Things.”
Mentioned by Melmotte as a director with experience in Parliament.
The Dinner
Attends the dinner, though no one has spoken to him about the scandal.
The Election
Depressed and unhappy as Mexican Railway shares are low.
Mr. Cohenlupe Leaves London
Has fled London; his disappearance is seen as a bad sign for Melmotte's house.

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