During his convalescence, the main character of this novel carries on a brief romance  with Diana Marfleet.
As a soldier, this novel's main character takes out a machine-gun nest before being wounded in the  leg by shrapnel, and before losing consciousness sees a statue of the Virgin il uminated as a woman he  knew from home. During his convalescence, the main character of this novel carries on a brief romance  with Diana Marfleet. This novel concludes with an inquiry, revealed in a sequel to have been made by  David Staunton, regarding who kil ed David's father, and the novel itself is cast as a letter from the  narrator to his former headmaster. As a child, the main character of this novel performs magic tricks for  his friend Paul Dempster, whose mother Mary had been sent into premature labor by a snowbal thrown  by Boy Staunton, and who is later encountered in this novel using the stage name Magnus Eisengrim.  This novel takes its name from a phrase used by Leisl to describe its protagonist, which refers to the  non-major characters of a drama who help advance the plot. Fol owed by The Manticore and World of Wonders, for 10 points, identify this novel about Dunstan Ramsay, the first of Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy.
As a soldier, this novel's main character takes out a machine-gun nest before being wounded in the  leg by shrapnel, and before losing consciousness sees a statue of the Virgin il uminated as a woman he  knew from home.
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