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It was not--by George--as he (Down-by-the-starn) would have hi fellow like him, to cohty He (Down-by-the-starn) had

been head of that office for ht that when he had finished all his work, he could sit

there doing nothing, he did not know his (Down-by-the-starn),

and so forth

On the other side of the green baize door old Jolyon sat at the

long, any-and-leather board table, his thick, loose-jointed,

tortoiseshell eye-glasses perched on the bridge of his nose, his gold

pencildown the clauses of his Will

It was a simple affair, for there were none of those vexatious little

legacies and donations to charities, which fritter away a e thepapers accorded to Forsytes who die with a hundred thousand

pounds

A simple affair Just a bequest to his son of twenty thousand, and

'as to the residue of my property of whatsoever kind whether realty or

personalty, or partaking of the nature of either--upon trust to pay the

proceeds rents annual produce dividends or interest thereof and thereon