Chapter TOUCHWOOD to Tradelove of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

At the Creakle’s school, when I was miserable, he [Traddles] would lay his head on the desk for a little while, and then, cheering up, would draw skeletons all over his slate.—Dickens: David Copperfield, vii. (1849).

Tradelove (Mr.), a broker on ’Change, one of the four guardians of Anne Lovely the heiress. He was “a fellow that would out-lie the devil for the advantage of stock, and cheat his own father in a bargain. He was a great stickler for trade, and hated every one that wore a sword” (act i. 1). Colonel Feignwell passed himself off as a Dutch merchant named Jan van Timtamtirelereletta herr van Feignwell, and made a bet with Tradelove. Tradelove lost, and cancelled the debt by giving his consent to the marriage of his ward to the supposed Dutchman.—Mrs. Centlivre: A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717).