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

great favour, the goddess was allowed to
mount beside the god.
Phaethon at once slipped the left rein over
her head, thus enabling himself to drive with
his arm round her waist. She did not mind. Mr.
Eager, who sat with his back to the horses, saw
nothing of the indecorous proceeding, and
continued his conversation with Lucy. The
other two occupants of the carriage were old
Mr. Emerson and Miss Lavish. For a dreadful
thing had happened: Mr. Beebe, without
consulting Mr. Eager, had doubled the size of
the party. And though Miss Bartlett and Miss
Lavish had planned all the morning how the
people were to sit, at the critical moment when
the carriages came round they lost their
heads, and Miss Lavish got in with Lucy, while
Miss Bartlett, with George Emerson and Mr.
Beebe, followed on behind.
It was hard on the poor chaplain to have his
partie carree thus transformed. Tea at a
Renaissance villa, if he had ever meditated it,