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He pondered this as he walked steadily, holding his umbrella carefully

by the wood, just below the crook of the handle, so as to keep the

ferule off the ground, and not fray the silk in thelegs h the Park, where the sun shone

with a clear flame on so much idleness--on so many hu beyond its ring--was like the

flight of some land bird across the sea

He felt a--touch on the arm as he ca fro hoside

"Yourto you, but I

suppose I shall be in the way"

The outward relations between James and his son were marked by a lack

of sentiment peculiarly Forsytean, but for all that the tere by no

arded one another as an investment;

certainly they were solicitous of each other's welfare, glad of each

other's coed tords upon the more

intimate problems of life, or revealed in each other's presence the

existence of any deep feeling