He falls asleep and is drowned inside when the church, which had been resting on a barge in the water, sinks.Īs Miriam is pregnant with Oscar's child, Hasset burns the papers confirming the wager, not wanting Lucinda's money to be inherited by her. Fearing that he will have to marry Miriam, and in love with Lucinda, Oscar enters the glass church to pray. Weakened upon arrival, he is left in the care of a woman named Miriam Chadwick, who rapes him. He is successful in delivering the church. He witnesses Jeffries murdering and raping Indigenous Australians and eventually kills him in self-defence after Jeffries attacks him. Lucinda decides that they will each bet their inheritance.īecause he fears water, Oscar takes the church over land in an expedition led by Mr. Inspired by a model of a glass church she shows him he asks her to make a real life replica to send to their mutual friend the Revered Dennis Hasset, betting that he can deliver it by Good Friday. He goes to live with Lucinda who allows him to work in her glass factory. In New South Wales Oscar loses his scholarship after he is unable to stop gambling.

They play cards together until Oscar becomes panicked at the sight of a storm. On the boat over he meets Lucinda and hears her confess to gambling which he denies is a sin. He earns a scholarship to study in New South Wales. While studying he is introduced to gambling and becomes massively successful, using his winnings to fund his studies and giving the rest to the poor. Meanwhile, a young Oscar is being raised as a Plymouth Brethren by his father but after receiving a sign from God he decides to join the Anglican faith. She buys a glass factory with her money and takes to gambling after her accountant introduces her to it. Lucinda's parents die and she is left a wealthy heiress after her guardians sell off the vast farmland that was her family's home. As a child living in Australia, Lucinda Leplastrier is given a Prince Rupert's Drop which sparks a lifelong obsession with glass.

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