Word: wilcher
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...also planned her amoral meanderings so dexterously that no one could ever guess what quirk or crazy character would show up just around the next corner. In Novel No. 2, To Be a Pilgrim (TIME, April 18), Sara played second fiddle to her sugar daddy, wealthy old Tom Wilcher, who not only gave his version of life with Sara but carried their joint stories a stage farther into the unexpected...
...Wilcher was one of those choice eccentrics who, if English novelists are to be believed, still wander about the English countryside. He was a tough-minded conservative. He believed in God. He despised what seemed to him the shilly-shallowness of the between-wars younger generation and stoutly affirmed that the days of his youth, well before World War I, were the best a man could be born...
...present story that Irish-born, English-educated Joyce Cary chooses to tell in To Be a Pilgrim (the fourth of his novels to be published in the U.S.), but Author Cary manages to convey one man's view of what has been happening to English life since Tom Wilcher's Victorian youth...
...love affair of Ann and Robert had mighty little spirit and even less romance old Tom Wilcher thought. After they were married, Robert returned to the fields phlegmatically modernizing the farm, and Ann calmly took up her chores, all as romantic as a baked potato. And naturally they drifted apart...
...Matt, and domestic peace was destroyed. Matt wasted away and Sara ran off with Gulley. Sara was happy, for Gulley "was the most of a man I ever knew." And even after he ran off with another woman and destitute Sara became a cook for eccentric old Mr. Wilcher, she was willing to steal for Gulley when he turned up one day begging for money...