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JOLLY SITS IN JUDGMENT The possessive instinct, which, so determinedly balked, was animating two members of the Forsyte family towards riddance of what they could no longer possess, was hardening da…
JOLYON IN TWO MINDS A little private hotel over a well-known restaurant near the Gare St. Lazare was Jolyon’s haunt in Paris. He hated his fellow Forsytes abroad—vapid as fish out of water in their …
DARTIE VERSUS DARTIE The suit—Dartie versus Dartie—for restitution of those conjugal rights concerning which Winifred was at heart so deeply undecided, followed the laws of subtraction towards day …
THE CHALLENGE The morning had been misty, verging on frost, but the sun came out while Val was jogging towards the Roehampton Gate, whence he would canter on to the usual tryst. His spirits were ris…
DINNER AT JAMES’ Dinner parties were not now given at James’ in Park Lane—to every house the moment comes when Master or Mistress is no longer “up to it”. no more can nine courses be served to twent…
DEATH OF THE DOG BALTHASAR Jolyon, who had crossed from Calais by night, arrived at Robin Hill on Sunday morning. He had sent no word beforehand, so walked up from the station, entering his domain b…
TIMOTHY STAYS THE ROT On Forsyte ’Change news of the enlistment spread fast, together with the report that June, not to be outdone, was going to become a Red Cross nurse. These events were so extrem…
PROGRESS OF THE CHASE Two days after the dinner at James’, Mr. Polteed provided Soames with food for thought. “A gentleman,” he said, consulting the key concealed in his left hand, “47 as we say, h…
“HERE WE ARE AGAIN!” Imogen’s frocks for her first season exercised the judgment of her mother and the purse of her grandfather all through the month of March. With Forsyte tenacity Winifred quested…
OUTLANDISH NIGHT Soames doggedly let the spring come—no easy task for one conscious that time was flying, his birds in the bush no nearer the hand, no issue from the web anywhere visible. Mr. Poltee…
