A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems
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"Not that, but the congratulations. It is so disgusting, the way an engagement is regarded as public property--a kind of waste place where every outsider may shoot his vulgar sentiment. All those old women smirking!" "One has to go through it, I suppose. They won't notice us so much next time." "But my point is that their whole attitude is wrong. An engagement--horrid word in the first place--is a private matter, and should be treated as such." Yet the smirking old women, however wrong individually, were racially correct. The spirit of the generations had smiled through them, rejoicing in the engagement of Cecil and Lucy because it promised the continuance of life on earth. To Cecil and Lucy it promised something quite different--personal love. Hence Cecil's irritation and Lucy's belief that
his irritation was just. "How tiresome!" she said. "Couldn't you have escaped to tennis?" "I don't play tennis--at least, not in public. The neighbourhood is deprived of the romance of me being athletic. Such romance as I have is that of the Inglese Italianato." "Inglese Italianato?" "E un diavolo incarnato! You know the proverb?" She did not. Nor did it seem applicable to a young man who had spent a quiet winter in Rome with his mother. But Cecil, since his engagement, had taken to affect a cosmopolitan naughtiness which he was far from possessing. "Well," said he, "I cannot help it if they do disapprove of me. There are certain
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"Not that, but the congratulations. It is so<br />
disgusting, the way an engagement is<br />
regarded as public property--a kind of waste<br />
place where every outsider may shoot his<br />
vulgar sentiment. All those old women<br />
smirking!"<br />
"One has to go through it, I suppose. They<br />
won't notice us so much next time."<br />
"But my point is that their whole attitude is<br />
wrong. An engagement--horrid word in the<br />
first place--is a private matter, and should be<br />
treated as such."<br />
Yet the smirking old women, however wrong<br />
individually, were racially correct. The spirit<br />
of the generations had smiled through them,<br />
rejoicing in the engagement of Cecil and Lucy<br />
because it promised the continuance of life on<br />
earth. To Cecil and Lucy it promised<br />
something quite different--personal love.<br />
Hence Cecil's irritation and Lucy's belief that
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