Grandfather 'Superior Dosset' Forsyte in the early nineteenth century had been getting ten per cent.

for his, hence ten children.

Those ten, leaving out the four who had not married, and Juley, whose husband Septimus Small had, of course, died almost at once, had averaged from four to five per cent.

for theirs, and produced accordingly.

The twenty-one whom they produced were now getting barely three per cent.