Morrel's devoted, half-blind old cashier, unshakably faithful to his ledgers and his master.
Cocles is the aged, one-eyed cashier of the house of Morrel, nicknamed 'Cock-eye', who has served for twenty years and, as the firm collapses, sinks to little more than a servant yet remains wholly devoted. Inflexible only on arithmetic, he pays every bill to the last sou with unshaken punctuality—thanks to the reprieve secretly engineered by Dantès—and cannot conceive that the house could fail. When at last Morrel shows him the hopeless balance-sheet, the revelation crushes the old man utterly, and he wanders the courtyard bareheaded in the sun, bewildered by a catastrophe he never believed possible.
An old one-eyed cashier, patient and devoted, bent and bewildered by the ruin of the house he has served for twenty years.
The faithful old cashier whose steadfastness embodies the honor of the Morrel house.