A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems

Bartlett was full of very natural curiosity. Lucy,
though she wished never to see the Emersons
again, was not disposed to condemn them on a
single word.
"Do you mean," she asked, "that he is an
irreligious man? We know that already."
"Lucy, dear--" said Miss Bartlett, gently
reproving her cousin's penetration.
"I should be astonished if you knew all. The
boy--an innocent child at the time--I will
exclude. God knows what his education and
his inherited qualities may have made him."
"Perhaps," said Miss Bartlett, "it is something
that we had better not hear."
"To speak plainly," said Mr. Eager, "it is. I will
say no more." For the first time Lucy's
rebellious thoughts swept out in words--for the
first time in her life.