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While honeymooning in Wellbridge, this man confesses to “eight-and-forty hours’ dissipation with a stranger” in London after losing his faith. This man goes to a May Day dance in Marlott despite the urgings of his brothers Felix and Cuthbert, who go to Cambridge while this man is apprenticed to Mr. Crick. Although this man’s father encourages him to marry Mercy Chant, (15[1])it is implied that this man marries (*) Liza-Lu at the end of the novel in which he appears. Marion, Izz Huett, and Retty Priddle hope that this employee of Talbothays Dairy will marry them. After this man returns from a failed (10[1])attempt to become a gentleman farmer in Brazil, he comes across (10[1])Stonehenge with his wife, who has just murdered Alec. For 10 points, name this husband of Tess of the D’Urbervilles. (0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Angel Clare [prompt on Clare]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, British Literature>
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