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They had all done so well for themselves, these Forsytes, that they were all what is called 'of a certain position. They had shares in all sorts of things, not as yet with the exception of Timothy in consols, for they had no dread in life like that of 3 per cent. for their money.
It appears that he was very hard up, we found several pawn tickets at his rooms, his account at the bank is overdrawn, and there's this case in to-day's papers;" his cold blue eyes travelled from one to another of the three Forsytes in the carriage. Old Jolyon watching from his corner saw his brother's face change, and the brooding, worried, look deepen on it.
It's their wealth and security that makes everything possible; makes your art possible, makes literature, science, even religion, possible. Without Forsytes, who believe in none of these things, and habitats but turn them all to use, where should we be?
She ought to be very happy. Amongst the throng of people by the door, the well-dressed throng drawn from the families of lawyers and doctors, from the Stock Exchange, and all the innumerable avocations of the upper-middle class there were only some twenty percent of Forsytes; but to Aunt Ann they seemed all Forsytes and certainly there was not much difference she saw only her own flesh and blood.
And he, who in his dealings with men of business, with Boards, with Forsytes of all descriptions, with such as were not Forsytes, had always had his own way, looked at his indomitable grandchild sadly for he felt in her that quality which above all others he unconsciously admired. "Do you know what they say is going on?" he said slowly. June crimsoned. "Yes no!
James' office, and Mr. James had said to him: "Now, Gradman, you're only a shaver you pay attention, and you'll make your five hundred a year before you've done." And he had, and feared God, and served the Forsytes, and kept a vegetable diet at night.
Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
Each felt aggrieved that the other had not modified his habits to secure his society a little longer; but as Roger voiced it in his thoughts: 'Always a stubborn beggar, Nick! And as Nicholas expressed it to himself: 'Cantankerous chap Roger always was! There was little sentimentality about the Forsytes.
Anyone who comes between man and wife, you know, incurs heavy responsibility." Jolyon rose and made him a slight bow. "Good-bye," he said, and, without offering to shake hands, moved away, leaving Soames staring after him. 'We Forsytes, thought Jolyon, hailing a cab, 'are very civilised. With simpler folk that might have come to a row. If it weren't for my boy going to the war.... The war!
Jolyon started. 'I? he thought. 'Oh! Ah! Now she's going to ask me to do something. We take it out, we Forsytes, each in our different ways. June came closer to him in the cab. "Darling," she said, "you buy the Gallery, and I'll pay you four hundred a year for it. Then neither of us will be any the worse off. Besides, it's a splendid investment." Jolyon wriggled.
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