Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh [144]
'Something quite remote from anything the builders intended, has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time; a small red flame—a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design relit before the beaten-copper doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther, in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones.'
I quickened my pace and reached the hut which served us for our ante-room.
'You're looking unusually cheerful today,' said the second-in-command.
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Table of Contents
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
AUTHOR'S NOTE
CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue: BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
BOOK ONE
ET IN ACARDIA EGO
1
2
3
4
5
BOOK TWO
BRIDESHEAD DESERTED
1
2
3
BOOK THREE
A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD
1
2
3
4
5
EPILOGUE
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED