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Marmaduke Ruggles
fictional character
Marmaduke Ruggles, fictional character, the protagonist of the humorous novel Ruggles of Red Gap (1915) by American author Harry Leon Wilson.
Ruggles is the quintessential gentlemanās gentleman to an English earl. In Paris the earl loses Ruggles in a poker game to Egbert Floud, a rough-edged but kindly American tourist from the frontier town of Red Gap, Wash. Although initially highly class-conscious, Ruggles gradually adjusts to the democratic, egalitarian life of Red Gap.
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