Word: lauree
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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To Dr. Aicadre's asthma clinic at Deux Estaings crowd many sufferers, hypochondriacal and real. The doctor tells them flatly to help themselves?he has little use, though considerable pity, for human beings sick or well. Even Laure, his peasant-girl wife, finds him unapproachable. Only her maman, Madame Teterger...
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...
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...