Prideaux, Don Carlos

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Don Carlos Prideaux is Lolita's fifty-year-old father and a wealthy landowner, similar to Don Alejandro De la Vega, Diego's father. He is ambitious, though neither openly malicious nor arrogant. To secure his family's prosperity, he is willing to enter into shady, underhanded deals with the Governor to keep his accounts in order. He engages in numerous actions that he knows are not merely unjust, but occasionally outright illegal, such as assisting smugglers and taking a cut of their spoils. Although he is not a villain or a criminal, he continues to behave with cheerful disregard, acting almost as if he were one.