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He himself, who had done extremely well with the Barbizons, had for some years past moved towards the Marises, Israels, and Mauve, and was hoping to do better. In the riverside house which he now inhabited near Mapledurham he had a gallery, beautifully hung and lighted, to which few London dealers were strangers.
"Fleur Forsyte it's mine all right. Thank you ever so." Good God! She had caught the trick from what he'd told her in the Gallery monkey! "Forsyte? Why that's my name too. Perhaps we're cousins." "Really! We must be. There aren't any others. I live at Mapledurham; where do you?" "Robin Hill." Question and answer had been so rapid that all was over before he could lift a finger.
Funeral at noon on the 24th at Highgate. No flowers by request." "On the 20th instant at The Shelter; Mapledurham, Annette, wife of Soames Forsyte, of a daughter." And underneath on the blottingpaper he traced the word "son." It was eight o'clock in an ordinary autumn world when he went across to the house.
On that visit he had as never before commissioned a copy of a fresco painting called "La Vendimia," wherein was the figure of a girl with an arm akimbo, who had reminded him of his daughter. He had it now in the Gallery at Mapledurham, and rather poor it was you couldn't copy Goya.
Soames went through a moment of calculating struggle. Mapledurham! Dared he? After all, dared he go so far as that, and show her what there was to look forward to! Still! Down there one could say things. In this room it was impossible. "I want you and your mother," he said suddenly, "to come for the afternoon next Sunday.
And Ripon could not but think it hard that he, Geoffrey Ripon, by all right and law Earl of Brompton, Viscount Mapledurham in the peerage of Ireland, etc., etc., should that afternoon have been fined ten shillings and costs for poaching on what had been his own domain.
Mapledurham House, axon, the old seat of the Blounts, contains a "priest's hole" in the attics, descent into which could be made by the aid of a rope suspended for that purpose. Upton Court, near Slough, possesses a "priest's hole," entered from a fireplace, provided with a double flue one for smoke, the other for ventilation to the hiding-place.
You're fond of colour, I should think, Miss Oswald, from what you say. 'Oh, nobody could help being struck by the autumn colouring of the Thames valley, I should fancy, said Edie, blushing. 'We noticed it all the way up as we came in the train from Reading, a perfect glow of crimson and orange at Pangbourne, Goring, Mapledurham, and Nuneham.
The Sunday visit to his family in Park Lane, to Timothy's, and to Green Street; the occasional visits elsewhere had seemed to him as necessary to health as sea air on weekdays. Even since his migration to Mapledurham he had maintained those habits until he had known Annette.
Johnson extolled when he said that "the finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground." Then we come to Mapledurham and Purley, where Warren Hastings lived, and finally halt at Caversham, known as the port of Reading.
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