dies. He falls in with Compeyson and eventually tries to murder Pip, and is eventually arrested and jailed after robbing Pumblechook. P Pancks, Mr Rental agent for Mr Casby in Little Dorrit. Pardiggle, Alfred is Mrs Pardiggle's youngest son who is forced to participate in all her causes in Bleak House. Pardiggle, Egbert is Mrs Pardiggle's oldest son who is forced to participate in all her causes in Bleak House. Pardiggle, Felix is Mrs Pardiggle's fourth son who is forced to participate in all her causes in Bleak House. Pardiggle, Francis is Mrs Pardiggle's third son who is forced to participate in all her causes in Bleak House. Pardiggle, Mrs is a woman who does "good works" for the poor, but cannot see that her efforts are rude and arrogant, and do nothing at all to help. She inflicts her activities on her five small sons, who are clearly rebellious, and is always asking Mr Jarndyce for donations in Bleak House. Pardiggle, Oswald is Mrs Pardiggle's second son who is forced to participate in all her causes in Bleak House. Pawkins, Major and Mrs Proprietors of a New York boarding house where Martin and Mark stay. The Major is typical of the scoundrels they meet in America in Martin Chuzzlewit Payne, Dr is the second to Dr Slammer, who finds Mr Winkle and issues Slammer's challenge to a duel in The Pickwick Papers. Payne is keen on duelling, and is unhappy when the duel is called off, trying to get the two principals to duel over something else, and finally offering to duel with Mr Snodgrass, Winkle's second. Mr Snodgrass declines the offer. Pecksniff, Charity (Cherry) Seth Pecksniff's older daughter and sister of Mercy. Haughty and ill-tempered, without her younger sister's playful nature. She is infuriated when passed over for marriage by Jonas Chuzzlewit who chooses her sister. She later promises herself to Mr Moddle, who leaves her at the altar. Charity has a disposition "which was then observed to be of a sharp and acid quality, as though an extra lemon (figuratively speaking) had been squeezed into the nectar of her disposition, and had rather damaged its flavour." in Martin Chuzzlewit Pecksniff, Mercy (Merry) Seth Pecksniff's younger daughter and sister of Charity. Seth gives her in marriage to Jonas Chuzzlewit, who breaks her spirit, and her heart in Martin Chuzzlewit Sanctimonious surveyor and architect "who has never designed or