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“AT HOME” AT OLD JOLYON’S Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming and instructive sight—an upper middle-class family in full plumage. But whosoeve…
OLD JOLYON GOES TO THE OPERA At five o’clock the following day old Jolyon sat alone, a cigar between his lips, and on a table by his side a cup of tea. He was tired, and before he had finished his c…
DINNER AT SWITHIN’S In Swithin’s orange and light-blue dining-room, facing the Park, the round table was laid for twelve. A cut-glass chandelier filled with lighted candles hung like a giant stalac…
PROJECTION OF THE HOUSE Soames Forsyte walked out of his green-painted front door three days after the dinner at Swithin’s, and looking back from across the Square, confirmed his impression that the…
A FORSYTE MÉNAGE Like the enlightened thousands of his class and generation in this great city of London, who no longer believe in red velvet chairs, and know that groups of modern Italian marble ar…
JAMES AT LARGE It was not long before Soames’s determination to build went the round of the family, and created the flutter that any decision connected with property should make among Forsytes. It …
OLD JOLYON’S PECCADILLO Old Jolyon came out of Lord’s cricket ground that same afternoon with the intention of going home. He had not reached Hamilton Terrace before he changed his mind, and hailing…
PLANS OF THE HOUSE Forsytes, as is generally admitted, have shells, like that extremely useful little animal which is made into Turkish delight, in other words, they are never seen, or if seen would…
DEATH OF AUNT ANN There came a morning at the end of September when Aunt Ann was unable to take from Smither’s hands the insignia of personal dignity. After one look at the old face, the doctor, hur…
PROGRESS OF THE HOUSE The winter had been an open one. Things in the trade were slack; and as Soames had reflected before making up his mind, it had been a good time for building. The shell of the h…
