Characters
- Jack Aubrey - Captain of HMS Surprise.
- Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and an intelligence officer.
- Sophie Aubrey (née Williams) - Jack's wife
- Mr Hollom - midshipman on HMS Surprise
- Mr and Mrs Horner - master gunner on HMS Surprise and his young wife
- Mr Allen - master on HMS Surprise
- Mr Martin - a Royal Navy parson
- Captain Pullings - a volunteer on HMS Surprise
- Barret Bonden - Jack Aubrey's coxwain
- Mr Mowett - lieutenant on HMS Surprise
- Preserved Killick - Jack Aubrey's shrewish manservant on HMS Surprise
- Padeen Colman - Stephen Maturin's huge, gentle Irish manservant and loblollyboy on HMS Surprise
- Captain Palmer - Captain of the USS Norfolk
- Haines - a British Navy deserter on the USS Norfolk
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“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
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“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“His leanings were strictly lyrical, descriptions of nature and emotions came to him with surprising facility, but on the other hand he had a lot of trouble with routine items, such as, for instance, the opening and closing of doors, or shaking hands when there were numerous characters in a room, and one person or two persons saluted many people.”
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