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Originally Posted by sun surfer
There's one thing still sticking in my mind. After it's discovered that the daughter was deceived by the squire into a 'fake' marriage, the vicar thinks his daughter should be redeemed by the marriage being made to be real. However, what of the women before his daughter? It just seems he's content to not worry about any of their marriages to the squire being real and let them go to the devil. I understand the practicality of it since he'd be most worried about his own daughter, but from a righteous and religious perspective it seems very iffy to me.
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Any more iffy than his trying to force her to marry "for real" the scoundrel squire? I realize that she would be damaged goods for most upstanding men by that point, but really, dad? Send her off to be married to the rake anyway to make it legal?