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1
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Wandering Jew. He was indeed a nomad of no nationality. Criss-cross about the world he travelled with them…

A

Anthony Blanche

2
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He was cruel, too, in the wanton, insect-maiming manner of the very young, and fearless like a little boy

A

Anthony Blanche

3
Q

Anthony Blanche had not changed from when I last saw him; not, indeed, from when I first saw him.

A

Anthony Blanche

4
Q

The name is Mulcaster,’ said Mulcaster. ‘Viscount Mulcaster.

A

Boy Muscaster

5
Q

“There’s Brideshead who’s something archaic… as though an Aztec sculptor had attempted a portrait of Sebastian; he’s a learned bigot, a ceremonious barbarian

A

Brideshead

6
Q

Callously wicked, wantonly cruel

A

Charles

7
Q

I was not her man

A

Charles

8
Q

There was also a daughter now, she remarked

A

Charles

9
Q

“Her children, my art”

A

Charles and Celia

10
Q

And Julia… A face of flawless Florentine quattrocento beauty… she’s as smart as — well, as smart as Stefanie. So gay, so correct, so unaffected. I wonder if she’s incestuous.

A

Julia

11
Q

Thin in those days, flat-chested, leggy

A

Julia

12
Q

The diamonds flashed in her hair and on her fingers, but her hands were nervously rolling little balls of crumb, and her starry head drooped in despair.

A

Julia

13
Q

I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all

A

Julia

14
Q

The place belongs to Lady Julia Flyte, as she calls herself now. She was married to Mottram, the Minister of-whatever-it-is.

A

Julia

15
Q

His mother is very ill, I said. I have come to tell him. ‘She rich?’ ‘Yes.’

A

Kurt

16
Q

Lady Marchmain… a voice as quiet as a prayer, and as powerful.

A

Lady Marchmain

17
Q

Poor mummy. She really was a femme fatale

A

Lady Marchmain

18
Q

And Lord. Marchmain, a magnifico, a voluptuary, Byronic, bored, infectiously slothful.

A

Lord Marchmain

19
Q

Jolly near a hundred thousand in London. I don’t know what they owe elsewhere. That’s quite a packet

A

Rex

20
Q

He had stepped straight from the underworld

A

Rex

21
Q

Rex hoped to have the whole of Julia’s dowry in his hands, to make it work for him.

A

Rex

22
Q

He doesn’t seem to have the least intellectual curiosity or natural piety.

A

Rex

23
Q

You must treat him like an idiot child… he smiled openly and innocently at them all… What’s all the rumpus?

A

Rex

24
Q

…My country of Hawkins and Drake.

A

Rex’s colleagues

25
Q

I wonder which is the more horrible,’ I said, ‘Celia’s Art and Fashion or Rex’s Politics and Money.

A

Rex and Celia

26
Q

“Of course it’s a bluff Where’s their tungsten? Where’s their manganese?”

A

Rex’s colleagues

27
Q

‘The women are barren.’ ‘The men are impotent.’ … ‘Now they’ve got consumption.’ ‘Now they’ve got syphilis.’

A

Rex’s colleagues

28
Q

Rex’s public life was approaching a climacteric.

A

Rex

29
Q

Narcissus, with one pustule.

A

Sebastian

30
Q

‘Poor simple monk,’ I thought, ‘poor booby.’ God forgive me!

A

Sebastian

31
Q

It’s when one gets to the parents that a bottomless pit opens.

A

Lord and Lady Marchmain