No one in the family liked this man, although Lucien hadn’t quite put it like that. The uncle didn’t fit in, was what I understood from Lucien’s coded language. (Then again, it could be argued that a good bourgeois family isn’t truly good if their purity isn’t marked a little by some bumbler from low-class stock marrying in: he reminds them what they are worth, and what they need to protect from people like him.)
