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John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga - Complete

  • Юлияцитирует11 лет назад
    Difficult to believe it was so long ago; he felt young still! Of all his thoughts, as he stood there counting his cigars, this was the most poignant, the most bitter. With his white head and his loneliness he had remained young and green at heart. And those Sunday afternoons on Hampstead Heath, when young Jolyon and he went for a stretch along the Spaniard's Road to Highgate, to Child's Hill, and back over the Heath again to dine at Jack Straw's Castle--how delicious his cigars were then! And such weather! There was no weather now.
  • Ireessцитирует11 лет назад
    When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died—but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    all he could tell she might want to take up a profession, become a doctor or solicitor, some nonsense.
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    he purpose of marriage was children, not mere sinful happiness.
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    most girls are married ignorant of the sexual side of life.
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    simply because what one would do theoretically is not always what one will do when it comes to the point.
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    the twenty-third of May," said Fleur; "on the ninth of July I shall be in front of the 'Bacchus and Ariadne'
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    We'll soon take that down. D'you play, Mr. Mont?"
    "I hit the ball about, sir."
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    life's beastly short. One wants to live forever, and know everything
  • puddle88цитирует2 года назад
    luckily; I don't suppose I shall be any good at making money."
    "If you were, I don't believe I should like you."
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