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Barbara's wayward brother Basil Seal, who is sleeping with a
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persuades him to leave out Hans' fate, so that the article appears to praise the SA. He then shows it to his boss as evidence of a cell of allegedly dangerous fascists. The publisher is jailed, but
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Angela's husband visits her with their child before embarking with the ill-equipped and ill-organised
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Basil decides to spend the winter quietly in the country with his sister at
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A man getting drunk at a farewell party should strike a musical tone, in order to strengthen his spirit … and a drunk military man should order gallons and put out more flags in order to increase his military
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represents a turning point in Waugh's writing career: "Waugh somehow fuses the savage, deadly comedy of his earlier books with the ominous seriousness of his later ones."
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