A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. A vagabond of the Steppes, a wastrel from the Siberian snows. She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging". There Bee's Uncle Charles identifies Brat as an illegitimate son of Bee's wastrel cousin Walter. Nicolas is a 24-year-old Londoner, a witty wastrel and the novel's archetypal anti-hero. He is an unemployed Mancunian wastrel with a particular hatred of students. The son of a wealthy tea plantation owner, Jia Fu (Xie Shaoguang) is a wastrel. Julio, ashamed of his wastrel life, enlists in the French Army. Yang was a gambler and a wastrel, but keen with the political scene. His modern biographer, James Ross, considers the 14th Earl "an incompetent wastrel". Could also be a drunken wastrel with no visible means of support. Fifty-five-year-old Srinivasa Raghavan is a worthless wastrel. But Bhargavi hates Nanukuttan who is a wicked wastrel. Palanisamy's brother Kottaisamy (Selva) was a young wastrel who spent his time with Kattamuthu (Goundamani). He was considered a model of a "wastrel".