![]() ![]() ![]() He rises from the lowest employment to living in extravagant luxury, running up ludicrous accounts for fine clothing, motorcars, jet excursions here and there, and then it all collapses in the face of his petty crimes, treachery, and betrayal. "But, Lestat, it's an endlessly destructive game." Father disowned him, was reinstated by Cunard before he died. Great scandal and disgrace not so many years ago, when James was also hired, thanks to the influence of his father, and promptly robbed one of the passengers of four hundred pounds in cash. "Father worked almost all his life for Cunard shipping, spending his last years as a cabin steward in first class on the Queen Elizabeth 2. Didn't come into his own until the fifties, in Paris, where he soon acquired an enormous following, then started bilking his clients in the most crude and obvious ways imaginable, and went to jail. Started dabbling in medium-ship even before his mother died. "He was highly educated, spent years at Oxford, though at times he had to live like a pauper. ![]() She said her brother had been destroyed when he was quite young, by their mother's death." She's deeply grieved over the death of her troublesome brother, but relieved he's gone. Her only daughter became a seamstress, still works for a bridal shop in London. I didn't really handle the particulars myself." ![]()
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