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JUNE PAYS SOME CALLS Jolyon stood in the narrow hall at Broadstairs, inhaling that odour of oilcloth and herrings which permeates all respectable seaside lodging-houses. On a chair—a shiny leather c…
PERFECTION OF THE HOUSE “One mockturtle, clear; one oxtail; two glasses of port.” In the upper room at French’s, where a Forsyte could still get heavy English food, James and his son were sitting d…
SOAMES SITS ON THE STAIRS Soames went up-stairs that night with the feeling that he had gone too far. He was prepared to offer excuses for his words. He turned out the gas still burning in the pass…
MRS. MACANDER’S EVIDENCE Many people, no doubt, including the editor of the “Ultra Vivisectionist,” then in the bloom of its first youth, would say that Soames was less than a man not to have remove…
NIGHT IN THE PARK Although with her infallible instinct Mrs. Small had said the very thing to make her guest “more intriguee than ever,” it is difficult to see how else she could truthfully have spo…
MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL Young Jolyon, whose circumstances were not those of a Forsyte, found at times a difficulty in sparing the money needful for those country jaunts and researches into Nature, …
VOYAGE INTO THE INFERNO The morning after a certain night on which Soames at last asserted his rights and acted like a man, he breakfasted alone. He breakfasted by gaslight, the fog of late Novembe…
THE TRIAL In the morning of his case, which was second in the list, Soames was again obliged to start without seeing Irene, and it was just as well, for he had not as yet made up his mind what attit…
SOAMES BREAKS THE NEWS In leaving the Court Soames did not go straight home. He felt disinclined for the City, and drawn by need for sympathy in his triumph, he, too, made his way, but slowly and on…
JUNE’S VICTORY June had waited for her chance, scanning the duller columns of the journals, morning and evening with an assiduity which at first puzzled old Jolyon; and when her chance came, she too…
