Awakening - To Let by John Galsworthy
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"It's my Gallery."
Soames sniffed from sheer surprise. "Yours? What on earth makes you run a show like this?" "I don't treat Art as if it were grocery." Soames pointed to the Future Town. "Look at that! Who's going to live in a town like that, or with it on his walls?" June contemplated the picture for a moment. "It's a vision," she said. "The deuce!" There was silence, then June rose. 'Crazylooking creature!' he thought. "Well," he said, "you'll find your young stepbrother here with a woman I used to know. If you take my advice, you'll close this exhibition." June looked back at him. "Oh! You Forsyte!" she said, and moved on. About her light, fly-away figure, passing so suddenly away, was a look of dangerous decisions. Forsyte! Of course, he was a Forsyte! And so was she! But from the time when, as a mere girl, she brought Bosinney into his life to wreck it, he had never hit it off with June and never would! And here she was, unmarried to this day, owning a Gallery!... And suddenly it came to Soames how little he knew now of his own family. The old aunts at Timothy's had been dead so many years; there was |
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