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"Except myself," retorted Soames, "who am also in a damnable position. Hers is what she made for herself; mine what she made for me. I am not at all sure that in her own interests I shan't require her to return to me." "What!" exclaimed Jolyon; and a shiver went through his whole body.
Summoning pride and the desire not to distress her mother, Winifred said in her most off-hand voice: "It's all right, Mother; no good fussing." "I don't see," said Emily, looking at Soames, "why Winifred shouldn't tell him that she'll prosecute him if he doesn't keep off the premises. He took her pearls; and if he's not brought them back, that's quite enough." Winifred smiled.
Soames reflected complacently on the work it would be sure to bring the young man; for, like every Forsyte, he could be a thorough optimist when there was anything to be had out of it. Bosinney's office was in Sloane Street, close at, hand, so that he would be able to keep his eye continually on the plans.
Soames Forsyte, is a gentleman, a man of property, who would be the last to dispute any legitimate claim that might be made against him, but he has met with such treatment from his architect in the matter of this house, over which he has, as your lordship has heard, already spent some twelve some twelve thousand pounds, a sum considerably in advance of the amount he had originally contemplated, that as a matter of principle and this I cannot too strongly emphasize as a matter of principle, and in the interests of others, he has felt himself compelled to bring this action.
Soames who, when he desired a thing, placated Providence by pretending that he did not think it likely to happen, answered: "I shouldn't think so. I might find out at his Club." "If George is there," said Winifred, "he would know." "George?" said Soames; "I saw him at his father's funeral." "Then he's sure to be there."
What he would do with it then, with his sisters dead and himself dead, was often mockingly queried by free spirits such as Francie, Euphemia, or young Nicholas' second, Christopher, whose spirit was so free that he had actually said he was going on the stage. All admitted, however, that this was best known to Timothy himself, and possibly to Soames, who never divulged a secret.
Bosinney ventured: "It's the first spring day." Irene echoed softly: "Yes the first spring day." "Spring!" said June: "there isn't a breath of air!" No one replied. The fish was taken away, a fine fresh sole from Dover. And Bilson brought champagne, a bottle swathed around the neck with white.... Soames said: "You'll find it dry." Cutlets were handed, each pink-frilled about the legs.
Such was his feeling, when in the tarnished and ornate little lounge of a quiet hotel near the river she came to him preceded by a small page-boy who uttered the word, "Madame," and vanished. Her face, her smile, the poise of her figure, were just as he had pictured, and the expression of her face said plainly: 'A friend! "Well," he said, "what news, poor exile?" "None." "Nothing from Soames?"
Berthe had come forth at the sound of our rising. I explained to her that Mr. Soames had been called away, and that both he and I would be dining here. It was not until I was out in the open air that I began to feel giddy. I have but the haziest recollection of what I did, where I wandered, in the glaring sunshine of that endless afternoon.
Either of them, with a little luck and opportunity, was equal to a lofty career; either of them would have made a good financier, a great contractor, a statesman, though old Jolyon, in certain of his moods when under the influence of a cigar or of Nature would have been capable of, not perhaps despising, but certainly of questioning, his own high position, while Soames, who never smoked cigars, would not.
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