<Li> Mr. Gitney (03 - 01): The head of the Novanglian College of Lucidity and the owner of Cassiopeia and Octavian . </Li> <Li> Dr. Trefusis (09 - 01): Octavian's classics teacher . </Li> <Li> Lord Cheldthorpe: A Lord from England who comes to the colonies to see if he wants to continue the monetary support that his deceased uncle formerly provided for the Novanglian College of Lucidity . He has an especial fondness for Cassiopeia, but she refuses to return to England with him when he says that they cannot marry; he quarrels with Octavian and Cassiopeia, who are brutally punished . He then refuses to continue support the Society . </Li> <Li> Bono: A slave in the Gitney household whose full name is "Pro Bono", because when his mother was purchased she was pregnant, so he was an added "bonus". Bono and Octavian become good friends, and when Bono is sold to a Southern owner, he leaves Octavian with a means to escape . He makes a book of torture instruments which is discovered by Sharpe and subsequently destroyed . </Li>

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