June 15, 2008: Waugh on Sebastian's Family - 0 Comments

"I'm not going to have you get mixed up with my family. They're so madly charming. All my life they've been taking things away from me. If they once got hold of you with their charm, they'd make you their friend, not mine, and I won't let them."

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"'Light one for me, will you?'
It was the first time in my life that anyone had asked this of me, and as I took the cigarette from my lips and put it in hers, I caught a thin bat's squeak of sexuality, inaudible to any but me."

- Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945