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Trefoil, Lord Augustus

Father of Arabella, and younger brother of the Duke of Mayfair, from whom he drew a sufficient dole to enable him to live in comfort, providing he lived alone, with no responsibilities for the debts of his wife and daughter.

"He was a handsome fat man, with a long grey beard, who passed his whole life in eating, drinking, and playing whist, and was troubled by no scruples and no principles" - The American Senator