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

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"I don't see you ought to go peeping like<br />

that."<br />

"Peeping like that! Can't I look out of my own<br />

window?"<br />

But she returned to the writing-table,<br />

observing, as she passed her son, "Still page<br />

322?" Freddy snorted, and turned over two<br />

leaves. For a brief space they were silent.<br />

Close by, beyond the curtains, the gentle<br />

murmur of a long conversation had never<br />

ceased.<br />

"The bother is this: I have put my foot in it<br />

with Cecil most awfully." He gave a nervous<br />

gulp. "Not content with 'permission', which I<br />

did give--that is to say, I said, 'I don't<br />

mind'--well, not content with that, he wanted to<br />

know whether I wasn't off my head with joy. He<br />

practically put it like this: Wasn't it a splendid<br />

thing for Lucy and for Windy Corner generally<br />

if he married her? And he would have an<br />

answer--he said it would strengthen his hand."

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