THE FORSYTE COLLECTION - Complete 9 Books. John Galsworthy

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So went the hum.

      The stable clock struck the quarter past. The dog Balthasar stretched and looked up at his master. The thistledown no longer moved. The dog placed his chin over the sunlit foot. It did not stir. The dog withdrew his chin quickly, rose, and leaped on old Jolyon's lap, looked in his face, whined; then, leaping down, sat on his haunches, gazing up. And suddenly he uttered a long, long howl.

      But the thistledown was still as death, and the face of his old master.

      Summer—summer—summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass! 1917

      Book 2: In Chancery

       PART I

       CHAPTER I—AT TIMOTHY'S

       CHAPTER II—EXIT A MAN OF THE WORLD

       CHAPTER III—SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS

       CHAPTER IV—SOHO

       CHAPTER V—JAMES SEES VISIONS

       CHAPTER VI—NO-LONGER-YOUNG JOLYON AT HOME

       CHAPTER VII—THE COLT AND THE FILLY

       CHAPTER VIII—JOLYON PROSECUTES TRUSTEESHIP

       CHAPTER IX—VAL HEARS THE NEWS

       CHAPTER X—SOAMES ENTERTAINS THE FUTURE

       CHAPTER XI—AND VISITS THE PAST

       CHAPTER XII—ON FORSYTE 'CHANGE

       CHAPTER XIII—JOLYON FINDS OUT WHERE HE IS

       CHAPTER XIV—SOAMES DISCOVERS WHAT HE WANTS

       PART II

       CHAPTER I—THE THIRD GENERATION

       CHAPTER II—SOAMES PUTS IT TO THE TOUCH

       CHAPTER III—VISIT TO IRENE

       CHAPTER IV—WHERE FORSYTES FEAR TO TREAD

       CHAPTER V—JOLLY SITS IN JUDGMENT

       CHAPTER VI—JOLYON IN TWO MINDS

       CHAPTER VII—DARTIE VERSUS DARTIE

       CHAPTER VIII—THE CHALLENGE

       CHAPTER IX—DINNER AT JAMES'

       CHAPTER X—DEATH OF THE DOG BALTHASAR

       CHAPTER XI—TIMOTHY STAYS THE ROT

       CHAPTER XII—PROGRESS OF THE CHASE

       CHAPTER XIII—'HERE WE ARE AGAIN!'

       CHAPTER XIV—OUTLANDISH NIGHT

       PART III

       CHAPTER I—SOAMES IN PARIS

       CHAPTER II—IN THE WEB

       CHAPTER III—RICHMOND PARK

       CHAPTER IV—OVER THE RIVER

       CHAPTER V—SOAMES ACTS

       CHAPTER VI—A SUMMER DAY

       CHAPTER VII—A SUMMER NIGHT

       CHAPTER VIII—JAMES IN WAITING

       CHAPTER IX—OUT OF THE WEB

       CHAPTER X—PASSING OF AN AGE

       CHAPTER XI—SUSPENDED ANIMATION

       CHAPTER XII—BIRTH OF A FORSYTE

       CHAPTER XIII—JAMES IS TOLD

       CHAPTER XIV—HIS

      Two households both alike in dignity,

      From ancient grudge, break into new mutiny.

      —Romeo and Juliet

TO JESSIE AND JOSEPH CONRAD

      PART I

      CHAPTER I—AT TIMOTHY'S

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       The possessive instinct never stands still. Through florescence and feud, frosts and fires, it followed the laws of progression even in the Forsyte family which had believed it fixed for ever. Nor can it be dissociated from environment any more than the quality of potato from the soil.

      The historian of the English eighties and nineties will, in his good time, depict the somewhat rapid progression from self-contented and contained provincialism to still more self-contented if less contained


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