![]() Roger held the tiller and covered the boat’s stern and other matters with her crinoline. ![]() Roger, and they would take her on the river, paddling with a rather deep-sea stroke, in long whiskers, ducks, and shallow wide-brimmed straw hats, while pretty little Mrs. After his marriage in 1853 he would be accompanied by Mrs. ![]() Roger Forsyte, in the course of his profession-the collection of house property-had many dealings with this firm which had designed for him a row of houses on a site he had picked up in Kensington, then somewhat out of the world and to Septimus Small’s riverside villa at Twickenham Roger sometimes repaired on Sundays to consummate his plans over cigars and claret cup. What bound Septimus himself to the Forsyte family was indubitably architecture, for he was a member of the firm of Dewbridge, Small and Keyman, who specialised in the domestic Gothic, which at that period was subjugating the taste of the British Islands. The Crimean war and the marriage of Septimus Small with Miss Julia Forsyte, which both occupied part of the year 1855, were linked by a water picnic arranged for the entertainment of that ‘hero,’ Major Small, a younger brother of Septimus, who had been wounded in the leg.
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