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

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

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joking. They are quite the right people. Mr. Beebe knows them, too. May I tell them to write to you?" "Indeed you may!" he cried. "Here we are with the difficulty solved already. How delightful it is! Extra facilities--please tell them they shall have extra facilities, for I shall have no agents' fees. Oh, the agents! The appalling people they have sent me! One woman, when I wrote--a tactful letter, you know--asking her to explain her social position to me, replied that she would pay the rent in advance. As if one cares about that! And several references I took up were most unsatisfactory--people swindlers, or not respectable. And oh, the deceit! I have seen a good deal of the seamy side this last week. The deceit of the most promising people. My dear Lucy, the deceit!" She nodded. "My advice," put in Mrs. Honeychurch, "is to have nothing to do with Lucy and her decayed

gentlewomen at all. I know the type. Preserve me from people who have seen better days, and bring heirlooms with them that make the house smell stuffy. It's a sad thing, but I'd far rather let to some one who is going up in the world than to some one who has come down." "I think I follow you," said Sir Harry; "but it is, as you say, a very sad thing." "The Misses Alan aren't that!" cried Lucy. "Yes, they are," said Cecil. "I haven't met them but I should say they were a highly unsuitable addition to the neighbourhood." "Don't listen to him, Sir Harry--he's tiresome." "It's I who am tiresome," he replied. "I oughtn't to come with my troubles to young people. But really I am so worried, and Lady Otway will only say that I cannot be too careful, which is quite true, but no real help."

joking. They are quite the right people. Mr.<br />

Beebe knows them, too. May I tell them to<br />

write to you?"<br />

"Indeed you may!" he cried. "Here we are<br />

with the difficulty solved already. How<br />

delightful it is! Extra facilities--please tell them<br />

they shall have extra facilities, for I shall have<br />

no agents' fees. Oh, the agents! The appalling<br />

people they have sent me! One woman, when I<br />

wrote--a tactful letter, you know--asking her to<br />

explain her social position to me, replied that<br />

she would pay the rent in advance. As if one<br />

cares about that! And several references I took<br />

up were most unsatisfactory--people<br />

swindlers, or not respectable. And oh, the<br />

deceit! I have seen a good deal of the seamy<br />

side this last week. The deceit of the most<br />

promising people. My dear Lucy, the deceit!"<br />

She nodded.<br />

"My advice," put in Mrs. Honeychurch, "is to<br />

have nothing to do with Lucy and her decayed

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