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With Aicadre crippled Madame Teterger seizes an opportunity to sell the clinic to one of its patients, who turns it into a "cloob." The Aicadre family moves to the nearby Abbey, where Madame Teterger, as caretaker of the Abbey, earns a miserly living, passes it grudgingly on to the rest. Dr. Aicadre accepts his invalidism with bitter fatalism; the only things that are insupportable are the teasings of Madame Teterger's idiot son, who hates him. and the starvation rations given to his pet dog Bobbee. One day he breaks out. poisons the dog. Some time later Laure bears...
Tried, convicted Aicadre is taken off. Meanwhile at the "cloob" there is much irrelevant activity. But two sympathetic visitors, Nicholas and Philomela Purssord, of whose doings Authoress Harris makes a little novel in itself, come to Deux Estaings. When Aicadre is released they help break down his inhuman, crippled bitterness. When that breaks down the truth breaks out at last?Aicadre is in fact desperately in love with life, and, after Laure has ordered her tyrannous mother out of the house, with her. Moreover he was not the murderer of their child...
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