A good second choice Peter and there are others to be unearthed, but I shall see this day out chastising John Dashwood because his crime was not vanity or lack of brains as in the case of Sir Walter, but he deliberately saw his own mother and sisters hurt and humiliated whilst he himself and his waste of oxygen of a wife and spoiled son lived in luxury spread over two homes. Oh yes, Fanny Fang the bloodsucker was a poor excuse for a human being, but what would have happened but for the charitable Middletons and Lady Jennings? Would the spineless one have repented and stood up to his grasping wife? Somehow, I think not. There was another level of shallowness in Dashwood in that he was ever looking to promote his own cause, probably to get a
good-boy biscuit off the harpy every time he made a guinea. Despicable varlet that I won't despoil the term "man" by relating him to it. A wimp and a coward. My mother ( God rest her soul) would have boxed his ears....(-:
