Although her older brother discovers that Rex Mottram had been married before, the desire to spite her mother is so great that Julia marries him anyway.
Although her older brother discovers that Rex Mottram had been married before, the desire to spite her mother is so great that Julia marries him anyway. Meanwhile Mr. Samgrass has failed to curb the second son's alcoholism and is dismissed. Later the narrator is asked to travel to Fez and find his schoolboy chum who is now living with a man named Kurt. Though he leaves his wife, Celia, to find him, Sebastian escapes and ends up living as a porter in Carthage. The novel ends with Father Mackay and the children hovering over Lord Marchmain on his deathbed where he makes the sign of the cross. FTP identify this 1945 novel narrated by Charles Ryder, that takes its title from the Marchmain family estate, and was written by Evelyn Waugh.
Although her older brother discovers that Rex Mottram had been married before, the desire to spite her mother is so great that Julia marries him anyway.
Brideshead Revisited