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" Soa at her beneath his eyelids, nodded, and he saw Irene steal at hih that each branch of the Forsyte family made that rest the last of the departing guests the fourth and fifth brothers, Nicholas and Roger, walked away together, directing their steps alongside Hyde Park towards the Praed Street Station of the Underground Like all other Forsytes of a certain age they kept carriages of their own, and never took cabs if by any ht, the trees of the Park in the full beauty of e; the brothers did not seem to notice phenomena, which contributed, nevertheless, to the jauntiness of proood-lookin' woet on"

This brother had a high forehead, and the freshest colour of any of the Forsytes; his light grey eyes e of the houses by the way, and now and then he would level his, u heights

"She'd no ood deal of e before the Married Women's Property Act, he had mercifully been enabled to make a successful use

"What was her father?"

"Heron was his naer shook his head

"There's no money in that," he said

"They say her htened

"But he went bankrupt," went on Nicholas

"Ah!" exclaier, "Soames will have trouble with her; you n look"

Nicholas licked his lips

"She's a pretty woet hold of her?" asked Roger presently "She must cost him a pretty penny in dress!"

"Ann tells me," replied Nicholas, "he was half-cracked about her She refused him five times Jaain; "I'm sorry for Jahtened by exercise, he swung his umbrella to the level of his eye more frequently than ever Nicholas's face also wore a pleasant look

"Too pale for er ," he said at last--it was the highest praise in the Forsyte vocabulary "That young Bosinney will never do any good for himself They say at Burkitt's he's one of these artistic chaps--got an idea of ilish architecture; there's no money in that! I should like to hear what Timothy would say to it"