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

Part Two
Chapter VIII: Medieval
The drawing-room curtains at Windy Corner
had been pulled to meet, for the carpet was
new and deserved protection from the August
sun. They were heavy curtains, reaching
almost to the ground, and the light that filtered
through them was subdued and varied. A
poet--none was present--might have quoted,
"Life like a dome of many coloured glass," or
might have compared the curtains to
sluice-gates, lowered against the intolerable
tides of heaven. Without was poured a sea of
radiance; within, the glory, though visible, was
tempered to the capacities of man.
Two pleasant people sat in the room. One--a
boy of nineteen--was studying a small manual
of anatomy, and peering occasionally at a
bone which lay upon the piano. From time to
time he bounced in his chair and puffed and