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He later described himself as "a spoiled priest".

Homelier touches include Hadrian giving an audience to a charwoman who had once befriended the "spoiled priest" and who now brings him a jar of her own pickled onions.

Keneally is what the Irish call a spoiled priest�after years of novitiate, he did not take his final vows.

He turns pro, pilfering privileged homes and allying himself with a series of outcasts: a spoiled priest, anarchists, and demimondaines who find him criminally good-looking.

There is no priest is any good at all but a spoiled priest; a one that would take a drop of drink, it is he would have courage to face the hosts of trouble.