Captain Mirvan is a naval officer; he’s Mrs. Mirvan’s husband and Maria’s father. Captain Mirvan joins Evelina, Mrs. Mirvan, and Maria during their stay in London. Captain Mirvan is extremely rude and bad-tempered, constantly arguing with and insulting the fashionable people whom the group encounters in London. Captain Mirvan looks down on fashionable society as petty and stupid; he himself has coarse manners because he is used to a rough life at sea. He is also extremely prejudiced against the French and relentlessly torments Madame Duval, who was once married to a Frenchman and who joins the group in London. Captain Mirvan is disrespectful to women and is often violent toward Madame Duval. He likes Sir Clement Willoughby because Sir Clement will go along with the Captain’s cruel pranks. The two men lie to Madame Duval that her lover has been arrested and proceed to stage a fake robbery that traumatizes her. If anyone objects to Captain Mirvan’s behavior, he threatens or bullies them until he gets his own way.
Captain Mirvan Quotes in Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World
The Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World quotes below are all either spoken by Captain Mirvan or refer to Captain Mirvan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 2, Letter 16
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“O Sir, you're vastly polite, all of a sudden! but I know what it's all for;—it's only for what you can get!—you could treat me like nobody at Howard Grove—but now you see I've a house of my own you've a mind to wheedle yourself into it[.]”
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Captain Mirvan Quotes in Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World
The Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World quotes below are all either spoken by Captain Mirvan or refer to Captain Mirvan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 2, Letter 16
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“O Sir, you're vastly polite, all of a sudden! but I know what it's all for;—it's only for what you can get!—you could treat me like nobody at Howard Grove—but now you see I've a house of my own you've a mind to wheedle yourself into it[.]”
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