![]() Sebastian takes Charles to meet his nanny, not his mother. Brideshead is “where my family live”, says Sebastian, prompting Charles to reflect: “I felt, momentarily, an ominous chill at the words he used – not, ‘that is my house’, but ‘it’s where my family live’.” The sadness is that Sebastian wants to grab on to Charles in order to get away, while Charles wants to belong. “That summer term with Sebastian,” he says, “it seemed as though I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood.” If they once got hold of you with their charm, they’d make you their friend not mine, and I won’t let them.Ĭharles has no idea of family life – he lost his mother in an absurd Waugh manner during the first world war, and while his father is occasionally kind he is vague and not very paternal. ![]() All my life they’ve been taking things away from me. ![]() I’m not going to have you get mixed up with my family. ![]()
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