The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. / Indian Summer of a Forsyte / In Chancery

Soames, that man of property

the orthodoxy he had worn in the 'sixties, as he had worn side-whiskers out of sheer exuberance, had long dropped off, leaving him reverent before three things alone—beauty, upright conduct, and the sense of property; and the greatest of these now was beauty

the orthodoxy he had worn in the 'sixties, as he had worn side-whiskers out of sheer exuberance, had long dropped off, leaving him reverent before three things alone—beauty, upright conduct, and the sense of property; and the greatest of these now was beauty.

'One's never had enough. With a foot in the grave one'll want something, I shouldn't be surprised!