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Bellfield, Capt. Gustavus

Mrs. Greenow’s successful suitor. In The Noble Jilt, represented by Captain Belleroache.

"He was a well-made man, nearly six feet high, with dark hair, but of that suspicious hue which to the observant beholder seems always to tell a tale of the hairdresser's shop. He was handsome, too, with well-arranged features,- but carrying, perhaps, in his nose some first symptoms of the effects of midnight amusements ..." - Can You Forgive Her?