A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems
A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems
"My poor dear, did you suppose that this was his first? Come here and listen to me. I am only gathering it from his own remarks. Do you remember that day at lunch when he argued with Miss Alan that liking one person is an extra reason for liking another?" "Yes," said Lucy, whom at the time the argument had pleased. "Well, I am no prude. There is no need to call him a wicked young man, but obviously he is thoroughly unrefined. Let us put it down to his deplorable antecedents and education, if you wish. But we are no farther on with our question. What do you propose to do?" An idea rushed across Lucy's brain, which, had she thought of it sooner and made it part of her, might have proved victorious. "I propose to speak to him," said she. Miss Bartlett uttered a cry of genuine alarm.
"You see, Charlotte, your kindness--I shall never forget it. But--as you said--it is my affair. Mine and his." "And you are going to IMPLORE him, to BEG him to keep silence?" "Certainly not. There would be no difficulty. Whatever you ask him he answers, yes or no; then it is over. I have been frightened of him. But now I am not one little bit." "But we fear him for you, dear. You are so young and inexperienced, you have lived among such nice people, that you cannot realize what men can be--how they can take a brutal pleasure in insulting a woman whom her sex does not protect and rally round. This afternoon, for example, if I had not arrived, what would have happened?" "I can't think," said Lucy gravely.
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"You see, Charlotte, your kindness--I shall<br />
never forget it. But--as you said--it is my affair.<br />
Mine and his."<br />
"And you are going to IMPLORE him, to BEG<br />
him to keep silence?"<br />
"Certainly not. There would be no difficulty.<br />
Whatever you ask him he answers, yes or no;<br />
then it is over. I have been frightened of him.<br />
But now I am not one little bit."<br />
"But we fear him for you, dear. You are so<br />
young and inexperienced, you have lived<br />
among such nice people, that you cannot<br />
realize what men can be--how they can take a<br />
brutal pleasure in insulting a woman whom her<br />
sex does not protect and rally round. This<br />
afternoon, for example, if I had not arrived,<br />
what would have happened?"<br />
"I can't think," said Lucy gravely.