I wonder if you remember the story mummy read us the evening Sebastian first got drunk - I mean the bad evening. Father Brown said something like I c… - Evelyn Waugh

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I wonder if you remember the story mummy read us the evening Sebastian first got drunk - I mean the bad evening. Father Brown said something like I caught him (the thief) with an unseen hook and and invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.

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About Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.

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Alternative Names: Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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