a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!" Meagles, Mr and Mrs Parents of Pet in Little Dorrit. Quote: "We are practical people." Melia, maidservant at Dr Blimber's school, who helped little Paul Dombey to dress, then rubbed his hands to warm them, gave him a kiss and told him "whenever he wanted anything of that sort - meaning in the dressing way - to ask for Melia". Merdle, Mr and Mrs Mr Merdle is an unscrupulous banker in Little Dorrit. His enterprises lead to the ruin of the Dorrits and he commits suicide when his fraud is uncovered. Micawber, Wilkins exposes the deeds of Uriah Heep in David Copperfield. Molly is Mr Jaggers' mysterious housekeeper. "She was a woman of about forty, I supposed, but I may have thought her younger than she was. Rather tall, of a lithe nimble figure, extremely pale, with large faded eyes, and a quantity of streaming hair. I cannot say whether any diseased affection of the heart caused her lips to be parted as if she were panting, and her face to bear a curious expression of suddenness and flutter; but I know that I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre, a night or two before, and that her face looked to me as if it were all disturbed by fiery air, like the faces I had seen rise out of the Witches' cauldron." Molly is the former mistress of Abel Magwitch. They both turn out to be Estella's parents at the end of Great Expectations. "Monks" See Leeford, Edward. Murdstone, Edward is the second husband of David Copperfield's mother, Clara. N Nancy is a prostitute and a friend of Oliver in Oliver Twist. She is eventually murdered by Bill Sikes, her lover. Native, The Indian servant of Major Joe Bagstock in Dombey and Son. Neckett Sheriff's officer who arrests debtors and delivers them to Coavin's sponging house (temporary debtors' prison) thus Skimpole gives Neckett the nickname "Coavinses". Neckett dies leaving three orphans: Charlotte (Charley), Emma, and Tom. Charley becomes Esther Summerson's maid in Bleak House. Neckett, Charlotte (alias Charley) Daughter of sheriff's officer Neckett in Bleak House. When her father dies Charley cares for her two younger siblings: Emma and Tom. Charley becomes Esther Summerson's maid, nursing Esther through smallpox. She later marries a miller. Nemo (Latin for 'nobody') is the alias of Captain James Hawdon