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Back from funeral of Anne's father. He died on February 10, 2018.

Sir Felix Cadbury continues to be a thorough cad. He can barely work up the energy to tell Marie Melmotte that he loves her, but she is still willing to marry him and enrich him.  He needs to talk to her father, which he puts off.  He then goes off to Ruby, a local girl with whom he is trifling.  She is madly in love with him, though.  Roger sees through it all, but cannot stop Felix from being himself, from disgracing the family, bankrupting his mother and sister, etc. 

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