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

"I meant," said Cecil stiffly, "that she is going
to marry me."
The clergyman was conscious of some bitter
disappointment which he could not keep out of
his voice.
"I am sorry; I must apologize. I had no idea
you were intimate with her, or I should never
have talked in this flippant, superficial way.
Mr. Vyse, you ought to have stopped me." And
down the garden he saw Lucy herself; yes, he
was disappointed.
Cecil, who naturally preferred
congratulations to apologies, drew down his
mouth at the corners. Was this the reception
his action would get from the world? Of
course, he despised the world as a whole;
every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test
of refinement. But he was sensitive to the
successive particles of it which he
encountered.