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Dramatis Personae
| The Marquis of Stainville, a chivalrous French gentleman. | ||
| Isabelle, another unfortunate young lady, his sister. | ||
| Julie, her friend, a passionate girl, who dies of a broken heart. | ||
| Monsieur Le Buisson, who loves Isabelle, and is loved by Julie. | ||
| The Chevalier Dumont, a French Adonis, irresistible to the ladies, but of invincible virtue; Stainville's friend. | ||
| Monsieur Le Neuf, a villainous friend of Stainville and Dumont. | ||
| Dorimene, Stainville's wife, who falls uncontrollably in love with Dumont. | ||
| The Comte de———, her father. | ||
| Vieuville, Dorimene's brother. He is madly in love with Isabelle, but fortunately falls still more madly in love with some one else. | ||
| Pandolph, an old servant of Stainville's. | ||
| Sacharissa and Corinna | Two English young ladies at Paris, whose contrasts of character point the moral of Cynthia's story. | |
| Monsieur Le Vive, a man who always acts according to his passions. | ||
| The Balancer, a man who finds every act in life as difficult as an abstruse mathematical problem. | ||
