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Upstairs, hundreds of people had been awakened to horror. Some were called by room telephones-a 44-year-old operator named Mrs. Julia Barry stayed at the switchboard, managed to work a few minutes before she died. But most of the guests were awakened by screams, the smell of smoke, the noise. Almost automatically they opened corridor doors and were driven back by heat and smoke. They ran to their windows, looked down the clifflike side of the building at the silent crowds in the street...
...hope of "cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States," the late Lady Julia Henry in 1930 created the fund to provide five Fellowships for American citizens and the same number for British exchange students who wish to study at Harvard or Yale...
...Young Ryder was not surprised when beautiful Lady Julia made noises like "a thin bat's squeak of sexuality" and became engaged to a rich Canadian, who gave her a tortoise with her initials set in diamonds on its shell. He was not surprised when his good friend Sebastian took to drinking on the sly. "My dear, such a sot," said Anthony Blanche. "Sip sip, sip like a dowager, all day." But when Ryder visited Brideshead, the magnificent family mansion, he was astonished to find that "religion predominated in the house," that the family diversified its sins with daily...
Ryder made a last desperate snatch at life by falling in love with Lady Julia; lawyers coldly set in motion the legal wheels of divorce that would enable them to marry. But Brideshead revisited, Ryder found, was in as desperate a state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came...
...priest was proved right is the climax to Brideshead Revisited, in which the ageless theme of rebirth through death is used melodramatically by Author Waugh to resurrect the remnants of the tottering family and leave Artist Ryder sadder, wiser, still unmarried to Lady Julia-and a religious man. Soon after, Ryder, now a soldier, watched troops being billeted at Brideshead...