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Young Jolyon put his hand on his father's shoulder, and, as neither

spoke, the episode closed

Having seen his father into a hanso-roo down on

the little garden He tried to realize all that this meant to him, and,

Forsyte that he was, vistas of property were opened out in his brain;

the years of half rations through which he had passed had not sapped his

natural instincts In extreht of travel,

of his wife's costume, the children's education, a pony for Jolly, a

thousand things; but in the ht, too, of Bosinney

and his edy!

Which? Which?

The old past--the poignant, suffering, passionate, wonderful past,

that no

sweetness--had coht up to her and took her in his

ar, his eyes closed,

pressing her to hi,

doubting look in her eyes