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Title: To Let

Author: John Galsworthy

Posting Date: May 28, 2009 [EBook #3817]
Release Date: March, 2003
First Posted: September 23, 2001

Language: English

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TO LET

by

John Galsworthy

AUTHOR'S NOTE

With this volume, The Forsyte Saga--that series comprising "The Man of
Property," "Indian Summer of a Forsyte" (from the volume "Five Tales"),
"In Chancery," and "Awakening"--comes to an end. J. G.

CONTENTS

PART I

I. ENCOUNTER
II. FINE FLEUR FORSYTE
III. AT ROBIN HILL
IV. THE MAUSOLEUM
V. THE NATIVE HEATH
VI. JON
VII. FLEUR
VIII. IDYLL ON GRASS
IX. GOYA
X. TRIO
XI. DUET
XII. CAPRICE

PART II

I. MOTHER AND SON
II. FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS
III. MEETINGS
IV. IN GREEN STREET
V. PURELY FORSYTE AFFAIRS
VI. SOAMES' PRIVATE LIFE
VII. JUNE TAKES A HAND
VIII. THE BIT BETWEEN THE TEETH
IX. FAT IN THE FIRE
X. DECISION
XI. TIMOTHY PROPHESIES

PART III

I. OLD JOLYON WALKS
II. CONFESSION
III. IRENE!
IV. SOAMES COGITATES
V. THE FIXED IDEA
VI. DESPERATE
VII. EMBASSY
VIII. THE DARK TUNE
IX. UNDER THE OAK-TREE
X. FLEUR'S WEDDING
XI. THE LAST OF THE FORSYTES

PART I

I

ENCOUNTER

Soames Forsyte emerged from the Knightsbridge Hotel, where he was
staying, in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1920, with the intention
of visiting a collection of pictures in a Gallery off Cork Street, and
looking into the Future. He walked. Since the War he never took a cab
if he could help it. Their drivers were, in his view, an uncivil lot,
though, now that the War was over and supply beginning to exceed demand
again, getting more civil in accordance with the custom of human
nature. Still, he had not forgiven them, deeply identifying them with
gloomy memories and, now dimly, like all members of their class, with
revolution. The considerable anxiety he h