Chapter Chronicles to Chuzzlewit of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

he was taught to spell was gain, and the second money. He poisons himself to save his neck from the gallows.

This fine young man had all the inclination of a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices—open-handedness—to be, a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in.—Chap. xi.

Martin Chuzzlewit, sen., grandfather to the hero of the same name. A stern old man, whose kind heart has been turned to gall by the dire selfishness of his relations. Being resolved to expose Pecksniff, he goes to live in his house, and pretends to be weak in intellect, but keeps his eyes sharp open, and is able to expose the canting scoundrel in all his deformity.

Martin Chuzzlewit, jun., the hero of the tale called Martin Chuzzlewit, grandson to old Martin. His nature has been warped by bad training, and at first he is both selfish and exacting; but the troubles and hardships he undergoes in “Eden” completely transform him, and he becomes worthy of Mary Graham, whom he marries.—Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).