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Here was George advancing with his Quilpish face; it was too late to get out of his way. "Have you seen 'The Buccaneer'?" said this licensed wag; "he's on the warpath hair cut and everything!" Soames said he had not, and crossing the room, half-empty in an interval of the dance, he went out on the balcony, and looked down into the street.
And men kept passing back from business on the way to their clubs men whose figures shrouded in cocoons of fog came into view like spectres, and like spectres vanished. Then even in his compassion George's Quilpish humour broke forth in a sudden longing to pluck these spectres by the sleeve, and say: "Hi, you Johnnies! You don't often see a show like this!
And men kept passing back from business on the way to their clubs men whose figures shrouded in cocoons of fog came into view like spectres, and like spectres vanished. Then even in his compassion George's Quilpish humour broke forth in a sudden longing to pluck these spectres by the sleeve, and say: "Hi, you Johnnies! You don't often see a show like this!
Behind him his cousin, the tall George, son of the fifth Forsyte, Roger, had a Quilpish look on his fleshy face, pondering one of his sardonic jests. Something inherent to the occasion had affected them all. She had survived him for many years. With her elder and younger sister she lived now in the house of Timothy, her sixth and youngest brother, on the Bayswater Road.
Behind him his cousin, the tall George, son of the fifth Forsyte, Roger, had a Quilpish look on his fleshy face, pondering one of his sardonic jests. Something inherent to the occasion had affected them all. She had survived him for many years. With her elder and younger sister she lived now in the house of Timothy, her sixth and youngest brother, on the Bayswater Road.
Here was George advancing with his Quilpish face; it was too late to get out of his way. "Have you seen 'The Buccaneer'?" said this licensed wag; "he's on the warpath hair cut and everything!" Soames said he had not, and crossing the room, half-empty in an interval of the dance, he went out on the balcony, and looked down into the street.
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