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

Miss Bartlett. "You will be seen from the road."
Lucy obeyed. She was in her cousin's power.
She could not modulate out the key of
self-abasement in which she had started.
Neither of them referred again to her
suggestion that she should speak to George
and settle the matter, whatever it was, with
him.
Miss Bartlett became plaintive.
"Oh, for a real man! We are only two women,
you and I. Mr. Beebe is hopeless. There is Mr.
Eager, but you do not trust him. Oh, for your
brother! He is young, but I know that his
sister's insult would rouse in him a very lion.
Thank God, chivalry is not yet dead. There are
still left some men who can reverence
woman."
As she spoke, she pulled off her rings, of
which she wore several, and ranged them
upon the pin cushion. Then she blew into her