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

might have been hurt. They chose to regard it
as a miraculous preservation, and the floods of
love and sincerity, which fructify every hour of
life, burst forth in tumult. They descended
from the carriages; they embraced each other.
It was as joyful to be forgiven past
unworthinesses as to forgive them. For a
moment they realized vast possibilities of
good.
The older people recovered quickly. In the
very height of their emotion they knew it to be
unmanly or unladylike. Miss Lavish calculated
that, even if they had continued, they would
not have been caught in the accident. Mr.
Eager mumbled a temperate prayer. But the
drivers, through miles of dark squalid road,
poured out their souls to the dryads and the
saints, and Lucy poured out hers to her cousin.
"Charlotte, dear Charlotte, kiss me. Kiss me
again. Only you can understand me. You
warned me to be careful. And I--I thought I was
developing."