And he was always careful to have money in his pocket, and to be modish in his dress, so that his son need not blush for him.

They were perfect friends, but never seemed to have occasion for verbal confidences, both having the competitive self-consciousness of Forsytes.

They knew they would stand by each other in scrapes, but there was no need to talk about it.

Jolyon had a striking horror--partly original sin, but partly the result of his early immorality--of the moral attitude.

The most he could ever have said to his son would have been: "Look here, old man; don't forget you're a gentleman," and then have wondered whimsically whether that was not a snobbish sentiment.