John Galsworthy

Name: The Man of Property — Chapter 2. June's Treat
Author: John Galsworthy

The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

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“The Man of Property — Chapter 2. June's Treat”, published in 1922, is a work by John Galsworthy. It explores elements such as June, Jolyon and Bosinney.

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John Galsworthy, The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

“ JUNE'S TREAT
Dinner began in silence; the women facing one another, and the men.
In silence the soup was finished—excellent, if a little thick; and fish was brought. In silence it was handed.
Bosinney ventured: "It's the first spring day."
Irene echoed softly: "Yes—the first spring day."
"Spring!" said June: "there isn't a breath of air!" No one replied. ”

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John Galsworthy, The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

“ Bosinney and June entered the theatre in silence, and mounted to their seats in the upper boxes. The piece had just begun, and the half-darkened house, with its rows of creatures peering all one way, resembled a great garden of flowers turning their faces to the sun.
June had never before been in the upper boxes. From the age of fifteen she had habitually accompanied her grandfather to the stalls, and not common stalls, but the best seats in the house, towards the centre of the third row, booked by old Jolyon, at Grogan and Boyne's, on his way home from the City, long before the day ”

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John Galsworthy, The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

“ He bent down to lift the cup of milk for her from the hearth, and, turning away, grumbled: "You oughtn't to stay out so late; it makes you fit for nothing."
He was invisible now behind his paper, which he turned with a vicious crackle; but when June came up to kiss him, he said: "Good-night, my darling," in a tone so tremulous and unexpected, that it was all the girl could do to get out of the room without breaking into the fit of sobbing which lasted her well on into the night.
When the door was closed, old Jolyon dropped his paper, and stared long and anxiously in front of him. ”

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John Galsworthy, The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

“ For 'that little June' this evening, that was to have been 'her treat,' was the most miserable she had ever spent. God knows she tried to stifle her pride, her suspicion, her jealousy!
She parted from Bosinney at old Jolyon's door without breaking down; the feeling that her lover must be conquered was strong enough to sustain her till his retiring footsteps brought home the true extent of her wretchedness. ”

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John Galsworthy, The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

“ Men in, evening dress had thrown back overcoats, stepping jauntily up the steps of Clubs; working folk loitered; and women—those women who at that time of night are solitary—solitary and moving eastward in a stream—swung slowly along, with expectation in their gait, dreaming of good wine and a good supper, or—for an unwonted minute, of kisses given for love. ”

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John Galsworthy, The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

“ He suspected Bosinney of being too much at Montpellier Square.
'This fellow,' he thought, 'may not be a scamp; his face is not a bad one, but he's a queer fish. I don't know what to make of him. I shall never know what to make of him! They tell me he works like a nigger, but I see no good coming of it. He's unpractical, he has no method. When he comes here, he sits as glum as a monkey. If I ask him what wine he'll have, he says: "Thanks, any wine." If I offer him a cigar, he smokes it as if it were a twopenny German thing. I never see him looking at June as he ought to look at her ”

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John Galsworthy, The Man of Property — Chapter 2… (1922)

“ Yet in this world of Forsytes let no man think himself immune from observation.
In the third row behind, Euphemia, Nicholas's youngest daughter, with her married-sister, Mrs. Tweetyman, were watching.
They reported at Timothy's, how they had seen June and her fiancé at the theatre.
"In the stalls?" "No, not in the——" "Oh! in the dress circle, of course. That seemed to be quite fashionable nowadays with young people!"
Well—not exactly. In the—— Anyway, that engagement wouldn't last long. They had never seen anyone look so thunder and lightningy as that little June! ”

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