<Li> Octave Mouret and his wife Denise (Au bonheur des dames) have two children, a sickly daughter and a robust and healthy son . </Li> <Li> Serge Mouret (La faute de l'Abbé Mouret), a parish priest, lives in religious seclusion with his sister Desirée . At the end of Le docteur Pascal, his death is imminent . </Li> <Li> Hélène Mouret and her husband Rambaud (Une page d'amour) continue to live in Marseilles, childless . </Li> <Li> Pauline Quenu (La joie de vivre) still lives at Bonneville, raising Lazare's son Paul (her uncle Chanteau having died) while Lazare, now a widower, has gone to America . </Li>

The passage implies that dr. pascal is which kind of character