Bridmain, Mr. Edmund

Countess Czerlaski's half-brother, a retired silk manufacturer, who marries his sister's maid. "Mr. Bridmain… by unimpeached integrity and industry, had won a partnership in a silk manufactory, and thereby a moderate fortune, that enabled him to retire... to study politics, the weather, and the art of conversation, at his leisure... Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. Mr. Bridmain had put his neck under the yoke of his handsome sister, and though his soul was a very little one--of the smallest description indeed--he would not have ventured to call it his own." In the lists of originals which were made in Nuneaton after the publication of Scenes of Clerical Life the original of Mr. Bridmain was said to be Sir John Waldron.

<em>The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton</em>

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