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"Soho," said Annette simply. Soames snapped his jaw. "Soho?" repeated Aunt Juley; "Soho?" 'That'll go round the family, thought Soames. "It's very French, and interesting," he said. "Yes," murmured Aunt Juley, "your Uncle Roger had some houses there once; he was always having to turn the tenants out, I remember." Soames changed the subject to Mapledurham.
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.
"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.
It was full late for the river, but the weather was lovely, and summer lingered below the yellowing leaves. Soames took many looks at the day from his riverside garden near Mapledurham that Sunday morning. With his own hands he put flowers about his little house-boat, and equipped the punt, in which, after lunch, he proposed to take them on the river.
I'm simply RAVENOUS! He's going to be a farmer and he loses his way! The boy's an idiot!" Lunch was over and Soames mounted to the picture-gallery in his house near Mapledurham. He had what Annette called "a grief." Fleur was not yet home.
A marriage at the Embassy in Paris, a few months' travel, and he could bring Annette back quite separated from a past which in truth was not too distinguished, for she only kept the accounts in her mother's Soho Restaurant; he could bring her back as something very new and chic with her French taste and self-possession, to reign at 'The Shelter' near Mapledurham.
Poor as they were, her mother had taken her to cheap little seaside nooks for a week or two of each summer; she had made pilgrimages almost every Sunday in spring or autumn to Leith Hill or Mapledurham; she had even strained her scanty resources to the utmost to afford Dolly an occasional outing in the Ardennes or in Normandy.
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.
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.
I would have one or two of them run down now and then, if I had my way, just to teach them all a lesson. The river becomes very lovely from a little above Reading. The railway rather spoils it near Tilehurst, but from Mapledurham up to Streatley it is glorious. A little above Mapledurham lock you pass Hardwick House, where Charles I. played bowls.
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