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The Forsyte Saga

CHAPTER II--OLD JOLYON GOES TO THE OPERA
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He ought perhaps to have put a spoke in the wheel of their marriage; they were too young; but after that experience of Jo's susceptibility he had been only too anxious to see him married.

And in four years the crash had come! To have approved his son's conduct in that crash was, of course, impossible; reason and training--that combination of potent factors which stood for his principles--told him of this impossibility, and his heart cried out.

The grim remorselessness of that business had no pity for hearts.

There was June, the atom with flaming hair, who had climbed all over him, twined and twisted herself about him--about his heart that was made to be the plaything and beloved resort of tiny, helpless things.

With characteristic insight he saw he must part with one or with the other; no half-measures could serve in such a situation.


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