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Galsworthy John. Fraternity

CHAPTER I. THE SHADOW

CHAPTER II. A FAMILY DISCUSSION

CHAPTER III. HILARY’S BROWN STUDY

CHAPTER IV. THE LITTLE MODEL

CHAPTER V. THE COMEDY BEGINS

CHAPTER VI. FIRST PILGRIMAGE TO HOUND STREET

CHAPTER VII. CECILIA’S SCATTERED THOUGHTS

CHAPTER VIII. THE SINGLE MIND OF MR. STONE

CHAPTER IX. HILARY GIVES CHASE

CHAPTER X. THE TROUSSEAU

CHAPTER XI. PEAR BLOSSOM

CHAPTER XII. SHIPS IN SAIL

CHAPTER XIII. SOUND IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XIV. A WALK ABROAD

CHAPTER XV. SECOND PILGRIMAGE TO HOUND STREET

CHAPTER XVI. BENEATH THE ELMS

CHAPTER XVII. TWO BROTHERS

CHAPTER XVIII. THE PERFECT DOG

CHAPTER XIX. BIANCA

CHAPTER XX. THE HUSBAND AND THE WIFE

CHAPTER XXI. A DAY OF REST

CHAPTER XXII. HILARY PUTS AN END TO IT

CHAPTER XXIII. THE “BOOK OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD”

CHAPTER XXIV. SHADOWLAND

CHAPTER XXV. MR. STONE IN WAITING

CHAPTER XXVI. THIRD PILGRIMAGE TO HOUND STREET

CHAPTER XXVII. STEPHEN’S PRIVATE LIFE

CHAPTER XXVIII. HILARY HEARS THE CUCKOO SING

CHAPTER XXIX. RETURN OF THE LITTLE MODEL

CHAPTER XXX. FUNERAL OF A BABY

CHAPTER XXXI. SWAN SONG

CHAPTER XXXII. BEHIND BIANCA’S VEIL

CHAPTER XXXIII. HILARY DEALS WITH THE SITUATION

CHAPTER XXXIV. THYME’S ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XXXV. A YOUNG GIRL’S MIND

CHAPTER XXXVI. STEPHEN SIGNS CHEQUES

CHAPTER XXXVII. THE FLOWERING OF THE ALOE

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE HOME-COMING OF HUGHS

CHAPTER XXXIX. THE DUEL

CHAPTER XL. FINISH OF THE COMEDY

CHAPTER XLI. THE HOUSE OF HARMONY

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The marriage of Sylvanus Stone, Professor of the Natural Sciences, to Anne, daughter of Mr. Justice Carfax, of the well-known county family – the Carfaxes of Spring Deans, Hants – was recorded in the sixties. The baptisms of Martin, Cecilia, and Bianca, son and daughters of Sylvanus and Anne Stone, were to be discovered registered in Kensington in the three consecutive years following, as though some single-minded person had been connected with their births. After this the baptisms of no more offspring were to be found anywhere, as if that single mind had encountered opposition. But in the eighties there was noted in the register of the same church the burial of “Anne, nee Carfax, wife of Sylvanus Stone.” In that “nee Carfax” there was, to those who knew, something more than met the eye. It summed up the mother of Cecilia and Bianca, and, in more subtle fashion, Cecilia and Bianca, too. It summed up that fugitive, barricading look in their bright eyes, which, though spoken of in the family as “the Carfax eyes,” were in reality far from coming from old Mr. Justice Carfax. They had been his wife’s in turn, and had much annoyed a man of his decided character. He himself had always known his mind, and had let others know it, too; reminding his wife that she was an impracticable woman, who knew not her own mind; and devoting his lawful gains to securing the future of his progeny. It would have disturbed him if he had lived to see his grand-daughters and their times. Like so many able men of his generation, far-seeing enough in practical affairs, he had never considered the possibility that the descendants of those who, like himself, had laid up treasure for their children’s children might acquire the quality of taking time, balancing pros and cons, looking ahead, and not putting one foot down before picking the other up. He had not foreseen, in deed, that to wobble might become an art, in order that, before anything was done, people might know the full necessity for doing some thing, and how impossible it would be to do indeed, foolish to attempt to do – that which would fully meet the case. He, who had been a man of action all his life, had not perceived how it would grow to be matter of common instinct that to act was to commit oneself, and that, while what one had was not precisely what one wanted, what one had not (if one had it) would be as bad. He had never been self-conscious – it was not the custom of his generation – and, having but little imagination, had never suspected that he was laying up that quality for his descendants, together with a competence which secured them a comfortable leisure.

Of all the persons in his grand-daughter’s studio that afternoon, that stray sheep Mr. Purcey would have been, perhaps, the only one whose judgments he would have considered sound. No one had laid up a competence for Mr. Purcey, who had been in business from the age of twenty.

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There was a silence such as falls when no one knows how far the matter mentioned is safe to, touch on. Thyme proceeded with her report.

“Her room’s much the best in the house; it’s airy, and it looks out over someone’s garden. I suppose she stays there because it’s so cheap. The Hughs’ rooms are – ” She stopped, wrinkling her straight nose.

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