Brideshead Revisited - Family

Question 1

Here my last love died […]

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She was stripped of all enchantment now […] an uncongenial stranger to whom I had bound myself

Question 2

Even then,

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Rapt in the vision, I felt […] an ominous chill at the words he used - not, “that is my house”, but “it’s where my family live”

Question 3

They’re so madly charming […]

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They’d make you their friend not mine, and I won’t let them.

Question 4

You wanted…

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To do sightseeing

Question 5

I am rather curious…

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About people’s families […] it’s not a thing I know about.

Question 6

Such a very…

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Sinister family […] they’re all charming, of course, and quite gruesome

Question 7

The dinner table…

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Was our battlefield

Question 8

Strife was…

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Internecine during the next fortnight

Question 9

My father had greater…

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Reserves to draw on and wider territory for manoeuvre […] he never declared his war aims

Question 10

Mutilated…

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Old trees […] destruction

Question 11

I felt at heart…

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That this was not all which Oxford had to offer

Question 12

Descent or ascend?…

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It seems to me that I grew younger daily with each adult habit I acquired

Question 13

Its naughtiness…

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High in the catalogue of grave sins

Question 14

There was…

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A change in both of us

Question 15

Anthony Blanche…

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Had taken something away with him when he went; he had locked a door

Question 16

The life that seemed…

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To be shrinking in the cold air

Question 17

Those that have charm…

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Don’t really need brains

Question 18

I wonder is she’s…

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Incestuous, I doubt it; all she wants is power

Question 19

A voice as quiet…

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As a prayer, and as powerful

Question 20

She meanwhile…

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Keeps a small gang of enslaved and emaciated prisoners […] she sucks their blood

Question 21

Voluptuary, …

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Byronic, bored, infectiously slothful

Question 22

She is so much resembled…

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Sebastian that, sitting beside her in the gathering dust, I was confused by the double illusion of familiarity and strangeness

Question 23

We wandered alone…

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Through that enchanted palace […] alpine strawberries and warm figs

Question 24

He’s miserable, …

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She bird-happy; Julia and I are half-heathen […] I wish I liked Catholics more

Question 25

I was drowning...

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In honey, stingless

Question 26

They are full of hate - ...

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Hate of themselves

Question 27

Alex was...

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Nearly a drunkard when he met me; it is in the blood

Question 28

Lady M’s brothers

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Three legendary heroes

Question 29

Julia tells me...

Answer 29

You have a tame one called Samgrass

Question 30

We must make...

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A catholic of Charles [...] and we had many little talks [...] she delicately steered the subject into a holy quarter

Question 31

There trod the grim invasion...

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Of trader, administrator, missionary, tourist [...] to turn from the sunlit door and lie alone in the darkness, where the impotent, painted deities paraded the walls in vain, and cough his heart out among the rum bottles

Question 32

You see Charles, ...

Answer 32

I look on you very much as one of ourselves

Question 33

Both of them...

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Unhappy, ashamed and running away. It’s too pitiful

Question 34

I wondered [...]

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Whether perhaps there was not on her, too, the same blaze, marking her and hers for destruction by other ways than war

Question 35

It seems to me that without...

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Your religion Sebastian would have the chance to be a happy and healthy man

Question 36

Just another…

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Boring family potin [...] it’s too tedious

Question 37

We have no secrets...

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In this house

Question 38

The subject was everywhere…

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In the house like a fire deep in the hold of a ship, below the water-line, black and red in the darkness

Question 39

I had come to the surface [...]

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After a long captivity in the sunless coral palaces

Question 40

Everyone of that sort...

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Is poorer than they were in 1914, and the Flytes don’t seem to realise it

Question 41

Poor mummy.

Answer 41

She really was a femme fatale, wasn’t she? She killed at a touch.

Question 42

The sun had sunk [...]

Answer 42

The lakes below us were aflame; the light grew in strength and splendour as it neared death, drawing long shadows

Question 43

A rough, healthy, prosperous

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Fellow [...] Lady Marchmain disliked him

Question 44

Rex hoped...

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To have the whole of Julius dowry in his hands, to make it work for him

Question 45

[rex was] unnaturally developed; ...

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Something in a bottle [...] something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce

Question 46

In the end, I couldn’t ...

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Even give that: I couldn’t even give her life

Question 47

Charles on why he married Celia

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Physical attraction. Ambition [...] loneliness, missing Sebastian [...] he was the forerunner

Question 48

Perhaps [...]

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All our loves are merely hints and symbols [...] along the weary road that others have tramped before us

Question 49

I’m homeless, ...

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Childless, middle-aged, loveless

Question 50

Waugh displays...

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A lack of sympathy [...] for the actual emotions of human beings Henry Reed Waugh can only depict divine love as perfect, all other families are flawed

Question 51

Brideshead Revisited [...]

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(Represents) The conflict between the imperious demands of faith and the equally urgent claims of earthly affections and desires Valerie Kennedy

Question 52

Thus strategists hesitate...

Answer 52

Over the map [...] victory and defeat were changes of pin and line. She knew nothing of war.