Plot
La Mere Bauche, an autocratic innkeeper in the
Eastern Pyrenees, was excessively ambitious for her only son's future. She had
adopted an orphan girl, Marie Calvert, and brought her up as a daughter of the
house until she learned that her son also loved the girl. The marriage would
have made impossible her dreams for Adolphe's success in life, and she sent him
away for a year's travel, planning to marry Marie to an elderly habitue of the inn, Theodore Campan.
Before leaving, Adolphe required a promise from Marie that she would be true to
him, but at the end of the year he returned and weakly submitted to his mother.
Marie, brokenhearted, allowed the marriage to her elderly suitor to take place,
and when she disappeared after the ceremony, Adolphe found her dead at the foot
of the cliffs from which she had plunged.
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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