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1
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Cara days about heiress

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Sebastián AND his friend are more interested in Bellini than heiresses

2
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WELL have a

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Sebastián: “we’ll have a heavenly time alone”

3
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Cara

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“Romantic friendships”
“I think they are very good if they do not go on too long”
“It is a kind of love that comes to children before they know its meaning”

4
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Charles when cara talks of their homosexual friendship that she eventually alluded to being homosexual

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“I failed to find an answer. She seemed not to expect one”

5
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When they drive to brideshead

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“A turn in the drive: and suddenly a new and secret landscape opened before us”

6
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Charles describes Sebastian’s beauty as

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Arresting

7
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Sebastián IS still

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He’s still loved, you see, wherever he goes

8
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I knew Sebastian

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By sight long before I met him

9
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That luncheon party

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Was the beginning of a new epoch in my life

10
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He was

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Entrancing

11
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It is thus, I like to remember Sebastian

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As he was that summer, when we wandered alone together through that enchanted palace

12
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Sebastian’s faith was

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An enigma to me

13
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It is a kind of love

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That comes to children before they know its meaning

14
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The languor of youth,

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How unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, irrecoverably, lost!

15
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That summer term with sebastian, it seemed

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As though I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known

16
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No I’m with you

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Sebastian contra mundum

17
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I had no love for Sebastian

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That morning; he needed it but I had none to give

18
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So I left him

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With his friend in the little enclosed house at the end of the alley. There was nothing more I could do for Sebastian

19
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What are Charles and Sebastian living in in their second year at Oxford

Foreshadows earlier by

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All that year Sebastian and I lived more and more in the shadows

End of chapter one driving away from brideshead: the sun was behind us as we drove, so that we seemed to be in pursuit of our own shadows.

20
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End of chapter 1 shadows

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The sun was behind us as we drove, so that we seemed to be in pursuit of our own shadows