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The Forsyte Saga

CHAPTER II--OLD JOLYON GOES TO THE OPERA
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He called to the driver to stop.

He would go in and ask if Jo still belonged there.
He went in.

The hall looked exactly as it did when he used to dine there with Jack Herring, and they had the best cook in London; and he looked round with the shrewd, straight glance that had caused him all his life to be better served than most men.
"Mr.Jolyon Forsyte still a member here ?" "Yes, sir; in the Club now, sir.

What name ?" Old Jolyon was taken aback.
"His father," he said.
And having spoken, he took his stand, back to the fireplace.
Young Jolyon, on the point of leaving the Club, had put on his hat, and was in the act of crossing the hall, as the porter met him.

He was no longer young, with hair going grey, and face--a narrower replica of his father's, with the same large drooping moustache--decidedly worn.
He turned pale.


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