But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt- edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairy-tale and legend, the folk of the old Sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and passion as Swithin, Soames, or even Young Jolyon. And if heroic figures, in days that never were, seem to startle out from their surroundings in fashion unbecoming to a Forsyte of the Victorian era, we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then the prime force, and that "family" and the sense of home and property counted as they do to this day, for all the recent efforts to "talk them out." So many people have written and claimed that their families were the originals of the Forsytes that
John Galsworthy ,,Forsyte'ide saaga I" Tegelased: vana Jolyon; noor Jolyon; Philip Bosinney; Ann Forsyte; June Forsyte; Irene; Soames Forsyte; tädi Juley; tädi Hester; Swithin Forsyte; James Forsyte; George; Nicholas; Timothy; Holly ja Jolly; koer Balthasar Sellisena oled sa sündinud ja selliseks sa jääd oma surmani! Lihvitud klaasist kroonlühter põlevate küünaldega rippus nagu hiiglaslik stalaktiit laua kohal, pildudes kiiri suurtele kuldraamidega peeglitele, kõrvallaudade marmorpealseile ja raskeile tikitud istmetega kuldtoolidele. Nad ei surnud; kuna suremine käis nende põhimõtete vastu, siis tarvitasid nad
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