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His lack of love for either his wife or his religion do not seem to bother clergyman Francis Kreer until his mother dies, leaving him an inheritance, and he falls in love with a most unsuitable young woman.
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When his mother dies, Francis is shocked to discover that she had a lover and that he must share his inheritance with this (awful) man. Then Francis falls in love—painfully, absolutely—with an irresistible but most unsuitable young woman.A. N. Wilson traces Francis's descent through various circles of the English establishment, a tragi-comic journey that takes the hapless hero to the outer edges of both absurdity and despair.
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