Main Characters
- Toby "Trotty" Veck, a messenger or "ticket-porter", and the main protagonist
- Margaret "Meg" Veck, Toby's 20-year old daughter
- Mrs. Anne Chickenstalker, the local shopkeeper
- Alderman Cute, a Justice of the Peace
- Mr. Filer, a political economist in the Utilitarian mould
- Sir Joseph Bowley, a rich paternalist MP
- Will Fern, a countryman
- Lilian Fern, Will's orphaned niece
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