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The uneasiness of the Forsyte family has been justified by the si would it have been for any faard for appearances which should ever characterize the great upper middle-class, to feel otherwise than uneasy!
The author of the uneasiness stood talking to June by the further door; his curly hair had a ru on around hi a joke all to hi aside to his brother, Eustace, said:
"Looks as if heBuccaneer!"
This 'very singular-looking ht and strong build, with a pale, brown face, a dust-coloured moustache, very prominent cheek-bones, and hollow checks His forehead sloped back towards the crown of his head, and bulged out in bumps over the eyes, like foreheads seen in the Lion-house at the Zoo He had sherry-coloured eyes, disconcertingly inattentive at ti June and Bosinney to the theatre, had remarked to the butler:
"I dunno what to make of 'im Looks to me for all the world like an 'alf-tame leopard" And every now and then a Forsyte would come up, sidle round, and take a look at hi off this idle curiosity--a little bit of a thing, as somebody once said, 'all hair and spirit,' with fearless blue eyes, a firht colour, whose face and body seeold hair
A tall woure, which sooddess, stood looking at these tith a shadowy srey, were crossed one over the other, her grave, char face held to one side, and the eyes of all ure swayed, so balanced that the very air see There are, dark eyes were soft
But it was at her lips--asking a question, giving an ansith that shadowy smile--that men looked; they were sensitive lips, sensuous and sweet, and through them seemed to come warmth and perfued couple thus scrutinized were unconscious of this passive goddess It was Bosinney who first noticed her, and asked her name
June took her lover up to the woreatest chuood friends, you two!"