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After his father's untimely death, Richard assumes the responsibility for negotiating the financial aspects of Antoinette's marriage settlement. Aunt Cora reprimands him for giving Rochester all of Antoinette's inheritance, leaving her with essentially no wealth of her own. Christophine similarly implies that Richard's is not a good man acting in his stepsister's best interests. Later, after Antoinette and Rochester have returned to England, Richard Mason visits Antoinette but hardly recognizes the disheveled madwoman she has become.

Enraged that he has allowed her to be locked up for so long, Antoinette flies at him with a knife, in a scene directly from Jane Eyre. Antoinette's aunt, although it remains unclear if the two are related by blood or by marriage. Aunt Cora is never specifically said to be Annette's sister, but Mr.

Mason implies this by saying that Cora should have done something to help when the Cosways fell on hard times. Antoinette explains that Aunt Cora's slave-owning husband disliked them and refused to let her write or visit. After his death, Cora returns to the West Indies, where she does her best to care for Antoinette in particular. She strongly disapproves of Richard Mason's plan to marry off her niece without legal protection, but there is very little she can do about it.

Old and ailing, she gives Antoinette a silk bag containing her rings in case the girl ever needs her own money. The groom engaged my Mr. Mason after he marries Annette and commences the restoration of Coulibri. He is a loyal servant and risks his life to help the family escape from the burning house. Another of the servants employed by Mr.

Mason to work at Coulibri. She proves to be a traitor to the family when the negroes rise up against them; knowing about the planned revolt she leaves Pierre to die in his burning bedroom but escapes herself. Annette's beloved green parrot. Coco perishes in the blaze at Coulibri; symbolically he cannot fly to safety because Mr. Mason has clipped his wings. Antoinette's mixed-race half-brother whom she refers to as "Cousin Sandi. Sandi comes to Antoinette's rescue when she is threatened on her way to the convent school.

Daniel tells Rochester that Sandi and Antoinette have a history of incestuous intimacy. Antoinette neither confirms nor denies this, but she does remember fondly how Sandi taught her to throw rocks at the monster crab in the pond. The siblings are held up as models of comportment to the rest of the class.

Louise, the most beautiful of the three, takes Antoinette under her wing and teaches her about the way of life in the convent. The lead instructor at Mount Calvary Convent. She gives lessons on the lives of the saints and on good manners and hygiene. The girls, however, find her to be "not very intelligent"; they refer to her behind her back as "Mother Juice of a Lime.

The man Antoinette marries, who actually remains unnamed for the duration of the novella. Despite this, he narrates most of the second part of the text, and from his story it quickly becomes clear that he is based on the hero of Jane Eyre. Rochester, an Englishman, travels to Jamaica at the urging the Mason family, who pressure him into a hasty marriage with Antoinette.

Alexander Cosway was a debased ex-slave owner known for fathering illegitimate children, squandering the family's money, and drinking himself into a stupor. His family lived on Jamaica for several generations as detested plantation owners; according to his bastard child, Daniel, madness ran in their genes. By the time Mr.

Cosway died, leaving his second wife and their two children on their own, the Emancipation Act had led to the ruin of his sugar plantation and the end of his fortune. A young half-caste servant who accompanies Antoinette and her husband to Granbois. The lovely and cunning Amelie snickers at her newlywed employers with a sort of knowing contempt, using her thinly veiled amusement to unsettle them. When Antoinette slaps Amelie for an impudent comment, Amelie slaps Antoinette back, calling her a "white cockroach" and smiling suggestively at her husband.

Later, Amelie feeds and comforts Antoinette's husband, then sleeps with him. When he offers Amelie a gift of money the following morning, she refuses it and announces that she is going to leave Massacre and go to Rio, where she will find rich, generous men. One of Alexander Cosway's bastard children. Sandi helps his half-sister, Antoinette, when she is harassed on her way to school.

Although Antoinette would like to call him "Cousin Sandi," Mr. Mason scolds her for acknowledging her black relatives. According to Daniel Cosway, Sandi is "more handsome than any white man" and is well received by polite white society.

Daniel also suggests that Sandi and Antoinette were sexually involved as young children. Indeed, Antoinette's fragmented memory of a goodbye kiss with Sandi supports this possibility that the two may have been intimate at some point. Another of Alexander Cosway's bastard chidren. Daniel writes a letter to Rochester that informs him of the madness that runs in Antoinette's family. The half-white, half-black Daniel is a racially split counterpart to the culturally split Antoinette. Mason's son by his first marriage.

After studying for several years in the Barbados, Richard moves to Spanish Town, where he negotiates Antoinette's marriage arrangements after his father's death.

Later, Richard visits the couple in England and hardly recognizes Antoinette as the madwoman locked in the attic. She flies at him in a delusional rage, cutting him with a secretly obtained knife. Maillotte's daughter and Antoinette's only childhood friend. At the water pool, Tia betrays Antoinette by taking her pennies and stealing her clothes. Tia's disloyalty manifests the allure and corrupting power of money in the text. Like Mr. Mason and Mr. Rochester, she appears to covet money more than a loving relationship, whether it be a childhood friendship or a marriage.

Antoinette's mentally and physically disabled younger brother. While not explicitly stated, it is suggested that Pierre's illness is a result of inbreeding and physical decline in the Cosway family. When the house at Coulibri is set on fire, Pierre is trapped in his burning room for some time, and he dies soon after. One of Annette Cosway's only friends after the death of her husband.

His father died soon after I left for the West Indies as you probably know. He is a good fellow, hospitable and friendly; he seemed to become attached to me and trusted me completely. Dear Father. The thirty thousand pounds have been paid to me without question or condition.

No provision made for her that must be seen to. I have a modest competence now I will never be a disgrace to you or to my dear brother the son you love. No begging letters, no mean requests. None of the furtive shabby manoeuvres of a younger son.

I have sold my soul or you have sold it, and after all is it such a bad bargain? The girl is thought to be beautiful, she is beautiful. And yet…. Rochester is awarded the thirty thousand pound dowry, and when her father dies she inherits a great deal of money, which also goes to Rochester because he is her husband.

She is damn lucky to get him, all things considered. So, in Jane Eyre , Richard Mason is protecting his sister. Rochester was given a great deal of money in exchange for the wedding, and he pledged to love her in sickness and in health.

But there are many unanswered questions. Why did Mason return to see his sister in April? Did he visit his sister frequently? Did he know how about her living conditions? What did he talk to Rochester about? What was their secret agreement which is not fully disclosed in Jane Eyre? All Hallows at Eyre Hall holds the answers to these enigmatic questions.

He has some disquieting news for Jane Rochester which will turn her world upside down, once more. She will find out exactly what happened the night Bertha attacked her brother. We will discover why she attacked him and what those strange animal noises and squeals coming from the attic were all about. Mason does not do any of the things villains do in either novel; he is not seen to kill anyone, deceive anyone, steal from anyone, abuse anyone, etc.

He is more an irresponsible coward than a villain. He is a scheming manipulator who has his own selfish ulterior motives. Mason will finally be allowed to play a major role as a really nasty piece of work. Mason leaves Annette and Antoinette, returning only to manipulate Antoinette into a marriage from which he will profit.

She is the one who sends Antoinette to the convent school. Briefly, she cares for Antoinette then tries to help Antoinette by giving her two valuable rings, and by advising her not to trust Richard Mason.

Richard Mason He is the son of Mr. Daniel Cosway mentions that Sandi and Antoinette were lovers. The insane Antoinette alludes to this when describing a kiss she shared with Sandi. When Antoinette drugs her husband in effort to encourage his physical affection, it is Amelie he ends up sleeping with. She is well paid, but often drinks and falls asleep on duty.

It is her voice that introduces Part Three, where Antoinette is deranged and living locked in the attic in England.