An evening with my Forsytes

Flipping through one of my favorites tonight.  I love those Forsytes.  This is why:

"When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died—but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property." - The Forsyte Saga: Man of Property by John Galsworthy


Life as a possession.  Very Forsyte.  Very Galsworthy.

The more fashionable side....

From Man of Property, volume 1 of the Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)

"All these ladies had shoulder-straps and no tulle--thus showing at once, by a bolder exposure of flesh, that they came from the more fashionable side of the Park."