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LORD JIM: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT

More than three years after the fact, Marlow encounters an
elderly lieutenant of the French gunboat that towed the Patna to
port (Chapters Twelve and Thirteen). The lieutenant fills
Marlow in on what happened to the Patna after its officers
abandoned her. He's a model of military courage and efficiency.
The scars on his hand and his temple attest to the action he's
seen. He condemns actions on the Patna. Fear may be
understandable, but cowardice isn't defensible. The
lieutenant's highest value is honor. He would never have the
slightest doubts about the fixed standard of conduct.

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LORD JIM: CHESTER

Chester is an Australian adventurer who accosts Marlow after
Jim's trial with a job offer for Jim (Chapter Fourteen). He has
a crackpot scheme for hauling guano (sea bird manure, for
fertilizer) off a waterless Pacific island, and he wants to
engage Jim as overseer for 40 coolies there. Though he derides
Jim for taking his punishment to heart so, he also knows Jim
doesn't have any other prospects. Chester prides himself on
seeing things "exactly as they are," but in fact he's a gross
cynic without the least conception of personal honor. His
cynicism is the reverse of Jim's idealism; he forms a beetle to
Jim's butterfly (see the note to Chapter Twenty). The Chester
episode demonstrates to Marlow how vulnerable Jim will be to
unscrupulous adventurers, making Marlow feel his responsibility
as Jim's only real friend. Chester does eventually set sail for
his guano island, but the whole enterprise disappears in a
hurricane at sea (Chapter Sixteen).

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LORD JIM: MR. DENVER

After Jim's trial, Marlow sends him to work for Mr. Denver, a
wealthy friend who owns a rice mill (Chapter Eighteen). Mr.
Denver is an elderly bachelor who's spent his life distrusting
people, but he's so charmed by Jim that Jim has a good chance of
becoming his heir. When the obnoxious second engineer of the
Patna turns up, Jim runs away, leaving Mr. Denver wounded and
bitter.

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LORD JIM: STEIN

Stein was born in Germany, as his thick accent and mangled
syntax attest. He is a wealthy merchant operating out of Java.
As a young man, he was a partisan in the region's bitter power