Necessary Sins (Lazare Family Saga #1)

Part II A Pure Boy, Faithfully Presented

PART II

A PURE BOY, FAITHFULLY PRESENTED

Charleston

Though to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature, and it therefore does not mend the matter.

— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)