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JUNE’S TREAT Dinner began in silence; the women facing one another, and the men. In silence the soup was finished—excellent, if a little thick; and fish was brought. In silence it was handed. Bosi…
DRIVE WITH SWITHIN Two lines of a certain song in a certain famous old school’s songbook run as follows: “How the buttons on his blue frock shone, tra-la-la! How he carolled and he sang, like a bir…
JAMES GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF Those ignorant of Forsyte ’Change would not, perhaps, foresee all the stir made by Irene’s visit to the house. After Swithin had related at Timothy’s the full story of…
SOAMES AND BOSINNEY CORRESPOND James said nothing to his son of this visit to the house; but, having occasion to go to Timothy’s one morning on a matter connected with a drainage scheme which was be…
OLD JOLYON AT THE ZOO Old Jolyon disposed of his second Meeting—an ordinary Board—summarily. He was so dictatorial that his fellow directors were left in cabal over the increasing domineeringness of…
AFTERNOON AT TIMOTHY’S If old Jolyon, as he got into his cab, had said: “I won’t believe a word of it!” he would more truthfully have expressed his sentiments. The notion that James and his womank…
DANCE AT ROGER’S Roger’s house in Prince’s Gardens was brilliantly alight. Large numbers of wax candles had been collected and placed in cut-glass chandeliers, and the parquet floor of the long, dou…
EVENING AT RICHMOND Other eyes besides the eyes of June and of Soames had seen “those two” (as Euphemia had already begun to call them) coming from the conservatory; other eyes had noticed the look …
DIAGNOSIS OF A FORSYTE It is in the nature of a Forsyte to be ignorant that he is a Forsyte; but young Jolyon was well aware of being one. He had not known it till after the decisive step which had …
BOSINNEY ON PAROLE The day after the evening at Richmond Soames returned from Henley by a morning train. Not constitutionally interested in amphibious sports, his visit had been one of business rath…
