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The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy

Chapter 9 PROGRESS OF THE HOUSE

Word Count: 2780    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

had reflected before making up his mind, it had been a good time for building

mes a week, and would mouse about among the debris for hours, careful never to soil his clothes, moving s

nutes' together, as though peering in

unts, and five minutes before the proper time he entered the tent w

table, and with a nod Soames sat down to study t

at last; "they come to nearly s

Bosinney's face

n. They stick you with everything if you don't look sharp.... Take ten per cen

shook h

off every fa

movement of anger, which sent the ac

he flustered out, "you've

ered sharply, "that there'd be extras. I've

cted to a ten pound note here and there. How was I to

e had created and believed in-had made him nervous of being stopped, or forced to the use of makeshifts; on the other, Soames' not less true and wholehearted devotion t

money anybody else would, and now that you've got a house that for its size is not to be beaten in the county, you don't want to pay for it. If you

ich he had set his heart, and just at the crucial point when the architect's personal care made all the difference. In the meantime there was Irene to be thought of! She had been

suppose you needn't cry out. All I meant was that when you tell me a thing

eap. For the kind of work I've put into this house, and the amount of time I've given to it, you'd have had to pay Littlemaster or som

was, the consequences of a row rose before him too vividly. He saw

said sulkily, "and se

osinney. "But we'll hur

in time to take J

id: "Coming to our place, I suppose to mee

d wild grasses. The warm, soft breeze swung the leaves and the golden buds of the

or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what. The earth gave forth a fainting warmth, stealing up through the chilly garment in which winter

ften. Seated on the fallen trunk of a tree, he had promised for the twentieth time that if

ny such thing!" By some awkward fatality he remembered it now. What queer things men would swear for the sake of women! He would have s

he fresh, sweet savour of the spri

mes, no musician, had regarded as an unmitigated bore, his eye had been caught by the face of a girl dressed in mourning, standing by herself. The lines of her tall, as yet rather thin figure, showed through the wispy, clinging stuff of her black dress, her black-gloved hands were crossed in front of her, her lips slightly parted, and her large, dark eyes wandered from face to face. Her hair, done low on her neck, seemed

th yellow hair and d

n, died this year. She lives with her stepmother.

e, please,"

o one of a forenoon. Soames made this lady's acquaintance with alacrity, nor was it long before he perceived in her the ally he was looking for. His keen scent for the commercial side of family life soon told him that Irene cost her stepmother more than the fifty pounds

glow; and at each visit he proposed to her, and when that visit was at an end, took her refusal away with him, back to London, sore at heart, but steadfast and silent as the grave. He tried to come at the secret springs of her resistance; only once had he a gleam of light. It was at one of those assembly dances, which afford the only outlet to the passions of the population of sea

diplomatic talent, he learnt nothing. Once after they were married he asked her, "What made you refuse me so often?" She

in the spring air. Soames looked at him waiting there. What was the matter with the fellow that he looked so happy? What was he waiting for with that smile on his lips and in his eyes? Soames could not see

should like Irene's opinion. I'm ordering the purple leather curtains for the doorway of this court; and if you distemper the dr

ou mean that my

evaded th

p of iris plants in the

iled supe

some time," he said, "an

to say to each other,

Soames

u find Irene

a snub as saying: "If you want to discu

es had felt all the afternoon

they were close to the St

expect to h

if you really wish me

quite understand," he

what I contemplated. I m

up, only I'm not in th

t my mi

-for in spite of his fastidious air and that supercilious, dandified tacitur

Bilson told her that Mr. Bosinney was in the drawing-room; the mistress-she said-was

pped her

said, "I'll just go in.

am

understanding look, did not even open the dr

he oaken rug chest-a slim, imperious young figure, with a small resolute face, in a white fro

oom door softly, meaning

ith a sweet hot scent

e, and heard Bosinney's voice, not i

things I wanted to talk about,

answered: "Why

n one t

he little court. It was from there that the scent of the azaleas came, and, standing with th

h flaming cheeks and angr

urself-We can go over

It was not the look of a coquette, but-far worse to the watchi

o go for a drive

you; it's only ten miles-th

d Uncle

t drifted into June's fac

ah!

t w

re-I thought you'd

come softly with a tremble from

into the open sp

re!" she said; "I ca

and direct, swept

se? I haven't seen it yet, you

face the colo

e that day with Uncle

does he matter? You

habit of throwi

steps and June saw Soames

rene, looking from one to the other

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1 Chapter 1 'AT HOME' AT OLD JOLYON'S2 Chapter 2 OLD JOLYON GOES TO THE OPERA3 Chapter 3 III DINNER AT SWITHIN'S4 Chapter 4 PROJECTION OF THE HOUSE5 Chapter 5 A FORSYTE MENAGE6 Chapter 6 JAMES AT LARGE7 Chapter 7 OLD JOLYON'S PECCADILLO8 Chapter 8 PLANS OF THE HOUSE9 Chapter 9 PROGRESS OF THE HOUSE10 Chapter 10 JUNE'S TREAT11 Chapter 11 DRIVE WITH SWITHIN12 Chapter 12 JAMES GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF13 Chapter 13 SOAMES AND BOSINNEY CORRESPOND14 Chapter 14 OLD JOLYON AT THE ZOO15 Chapter 15 AFTERNOON AT TIMOTHY'S16 Chapter 16 DANCE AT ROGER'S17 Chapter 17 EVENING AT RICHMOND18 Chapter 18 DIAGNOSIS OF A FORSYTE19 Chapter 19 BOSINNEY ON PAROLE20 Chapter 20 JUNE PAYS SOME CALLS21 Chapter 21 PERFECTION OF THE HOUSE22 Chapter 22 No.2223 Chapter 23 NIGHT IN THE PARK24 Chapter 24 MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL25 Chapter 25 VOYAGE INTO THE INFERNO26 Chapter 26 THE TRIAL27 Chapter 27 SOAMES BREAKS THE NEWS28 Chapter 28 JUNE'S VICTORY29 Chapter 29 BOSINNEY'S DEPARTURE30 Chapter 30 AT TIMOTHY'S31 Chapter 31 EXIT A MAN OF THE WORLD32 Chapter 32 SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS33 Chapter 33 SOHO34 Chapter 34 JAMES SEES VISIONS35 Chapter 35 NO-LONGER-YOUNG JOLYON AT HOME36 Chapter 36 THE COLT AND THE FILLY37 Chapter 37 JOLYON PROSECUTES TRUSTEESHIP38 Chapter 38 VAL HEARS THE NEWS39 Chapter 39 SOAMES ENTERTAINS THE FUTURE40 Chapter 40 AND VISITS THE PAST41 Chapter 41 ON FORSYTE 'CHANGE42 Chapter 42 JOLYON FINDS OUT WHERE HE IS43 Chapter 43 THE THIRD GENERATION44 Chapter 44 SOAMES PUTS IT TO THE TOUCH45 Chapter 45 VISIT TO IRENE46 Chapter 46 WHERE FORSYTES FEAR TO TREAD47 Chapter 47 JOLLY SITS IN JUDGMENT48 Chapter 48 JOLYON IN TWO MINDS49 Chapter 49 DARTIE VERSUS DARTIE50 Chapter 50 THE CHALLENGE51 Chapter 51 DINNER AT JAMES'52 Chapter 52 DEATH OF THE DOG BALTHASAR53 Chapter 53 TIMOTHY STAYS THE ROT54 Chapter 54 PROGRESS OF THE CHASE55 Chapter 55 'HERE WE ARE AGAIN!'56 Chapter 56 SOAMES IN PARIS57 Chapter 57 IN THE WEB58 Chapter 58 RICHMOND PARK59 Chapter 59 OVER THE RIVER60 Chapter 60 SOAMES ACTS61 Chapter 61 A SUMMER DAY62 Chapter 62 A SUMMER NIGHT63 Chapter 63 JAMES IN WAITING64 Chapter 64 OUT OF THE WEB65 Chapter 65 PASSING OF AN AGE66 Chapter 66 SUSPENDED ANIMATION67 Chapter 67 BIRTH OF A FORSYTE68 Chapter 68 JAMES IS TOLD69 Chapter 69 No.6970 Chapter 70 No.7071 Chapter 71 No.7172 Chapter 72 No.7273 Chapter 73 No.7374 Chapter 74 No.7475 Chapter 75 No.7576 Chapter 76 No.7677 Chapter 77 No.7778 Chapter 78 No.7879 Chapter 79 No.7980 Chapter 80 No.8081 Chapter 81 No.8182 Chapter 82 No.8283 Chapter 83 No.8384 Chapter 84 No.8485 Chapter 85 No.8586 Chapter 86 No.8687 Chapter 87 No.8788 Chapter 88 No.8889 Chapter 89 No.8990 Chapter 90 No.9091 Chapter 91 No.9192 Chapter 92 No.9293 Chapter 93 No.9394 Chapter 94 No.9495 Chapter 95 No.9596 Chapter 96 No.9697 Chapter 97 No.9798 Chapter 98 No.9899 Chapter 99 No.99100 Chapter 100 No.100