Like all families, the Dejauzi has some members who are hated like poison by all the others. But there’s a difference between you hating your sister and somebody else hating her. Inside the family, it’s fine and perfectly natural. When it’s an outsider, it’s different. I had an uncle like that. We all loathed him, with good reason. He was horrible to his wife and children, he drank too much, he shouted at servants and when he came to stay with us he stole things. But when he was arrested for stabbing a stranger in a public place, the whole family mobilised, called in favours, spent a large
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