Chapter TOUCHWOOD to Tradelove of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

were printed for the Surtees Society, under the editorship of the Rev. Joseph Hunter and J. Stevenson. (See Coventry Mysteries, p. 240.)

Townly (Colonel), attached to Berinthia, a handsome young widow, but in order to win her he determines to excite her jealousy, and therefore pretends love to Amanda, her cousin. Amanda, however, repels his attentions with disdain; and the colonel, seeing his folly, attaches himself to Berinthia.—Sheridan: A Trip to Scarborough (1777).

Townly (Lord), a nobleman of generous mind and high principle, liberal and manly. Though very fond of his wife, he insists on a separation, because she is so extravagant and self-willed. Lady Townly sees, at length, the folly of her ways, and promises amendment; whereupon the husband relents, and receives her into favour again.

The London critics acknowledged that J. G. Holman’s “lord Townley” was the perfection of the nobleman of the days of Chesterfield. He was not the actor, but the dignified lord himself.—Donaldson.

Lady Townly, the gay but not unfaithful young wife of lord Townly, who thinks that the pleasure of life consists in gambling; she “cares nothing for her husband,” but “loves almost everything he hates.” Ultimately she amends her ways. Lady Townly says—

I dote upon assemblies; my heart bounds at a ball; and at an opera I expire. Then I love play to distraction: cards enchant me; and dice put me out of my little wits.—Vanbrugh and Cibber: The Provoked Husband, iii. 1 (1728).

The part which at once established her [Miss Farren’s] fame as an actress was “lady Townly”…the whole house was enraptured.—Memoir of Elizabeth Countess of Derby (1829).

(Mrs. Pritchard, Margaret Woffington, Miss Brunton, Miss M. Tree, and Miss E. Tree were all excellent in this favourite part.)

Tox (Miss Lucretia), the bosom friend of Mr. Dombey’s married sister (Mrs. Chick). Miss Lucretia was a faded lady, “as if she had not been made in fast colours,” and was washed out. She “ambled through life without any opinions, and never abandoned herself to unavailing regrets.” Miss Tox greatly admired Mr. Dombey, and entertained a forlorn hope that she might be selected by him to supply the place of his decreased wife. She lived in Princess’s Place, and maintained a weak flirtation with major Bagstock.—Dickens: Dombey and Son (1846).

Tozer, one of the ten young gentlemen in the school of Dr. Blimber when Paul Dombey was there. A very solemn lad, whose “shirt-collar curled up the lobes of his ears.”—Dickens: Dombey and Son (1846).

Trabb, a prosperous old bachelor, a tailor by trade.

He was having his breakfast in the parlour behind the shop.…He had sliced his hot roll into three feather- beds, and was slipping butter in between the blankets.…He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of the fireplace, and without doubt heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.—Dickens: Great Expectations, xix. (1860).

Tracy, one of the gentlemen in the earl of Sussex’s train.—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

Traddles, a simple, honest young man, who believes in everybody and everything. Though constantly failing, he is never depressed by his want of success. He had the habit of brushing his hair up on end, which gave him a look of surprise. Tom Traddles marries one of the “ten daughters of a poor curate.”