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In that old war, of course, his nephew Val Dartie had been wounded, that fellow Jolyon's first son had died of enteric, "the Dromios" had gone out on horses, and June had been a nurse; but all that had seemed in the nature of a portent, while in this war everybody had done "their bit," so far as he could make out, as a matter of course.
And Jolyon's words came rushing into his mind: "I should imagine you will be glad to have your neck out of chancery." Well, he had got it out! Had he got it in again? "We must feed you up," he said, "you'll soon be strong." "Don't you want to see baby, Soames? She is asleep." "Of course," said Soames, "very much." He passed round the foot of the bed to the other side and stood staring.
She took, however, too much interest in his teeth, for he still had some of those natural symptoms. Jolyon's native tenacity was roused, and in the studio that evening he developed his objections. He had never had any boils, and his own teeth would last his time. Of course June admitted they would last his time if he didn't have them out!
Fifty-eight years ago Jolyon had become an Eton boy, for old Jolyon's whim had been that he should be canonised at the greatest possible expense. Year after year he had gone to Lord's from Stanhope Gate with a father whose youth in the eighteen-twenties had been passed without polish in the game of cricket.
He was well-built and very upright, and always pleased Jolyon's aesthetic sense, so that he was a tiny bit afraid of him, as artists ever are of those of their own sex whom they admire physically. On that occasion, however, he actually did screw up his courage to give his son advice, and this was it: "Look here, old man, you're bound to get into debt; mind you come to me at once.
A generation later, with his own boy, Jolly, Harrow-buttonholed with corn-flowers by old Jolyon's whim his grandson had been canonised at a trifle less expense again Jolyon had experienced the heat and counter-passions of the day, and come back to the cool and the strawberry beds of Robin Hill, and billiards after dinner, his boy making the most heart-breaking flukes and trying to seem languid and grown-up.
Then, too, in old Jolyon's mind there was always the secret ache, that the son of James of James, whom he had always thought such a poor thing, should be pursuing the paths of success, while his own son...!
Can't you believe me?" "How can you tell what I should think? Father, I love her better than anything in the world." Jolyon's face twitched, and he said with painful slowness: "Better than your mother, Jon?" From the boy's face, and his clenched fists Jolyon realised the stress and struggle he was going through. "I don't know," he burst out, "I don't know!
Old Jolyon's silence, his stern eyes, held them all in a kind of paralysis. He was disconcerted himself by the effect of his own words an effect which seemed to deepen the importance of the very rumour he had come to scotch; but he was still angry. He had not done with them yet No, no he would give them another rub or two.
For his benefit, as she declared, though he suspected that she also got something out of it, she assembled the Age so far as it was satellite to genius; and with some solemnity it would move up and down the studio before him in the Fox-trot, and that more mental form of dancing the One-step which so pulled against the music, that Jolyon's eyebrows would be almost lost in his hair from wonder at the strain it must impose on the dancers' will-power.
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