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back under the coved and coffered roof, the columns and entablature of the central hall, in the august, masculine atmosphere of a better age.
I was no fool; I was old enough to know that an attempt had been made to suborn me and young enough to have found the experience agreeable. I did not see Julia that morning, but just as I was leaving Cordelia ran to the door of the car and said: ‘Will you be seeing Sebastian? Please give him my special love. Will you remember - my special love?’
In the train to London I read the book Lady Marchmain had given me. The frontispiece reproduced the photograph of a young man in Grenadier uniform, and I saw plainly revealed there the origin of that grim mask which, in Brideshead, overlaid the gracious features of his father’s family; this was a
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