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

fortunate for the children." She called
everywhere; her calls were returned with
enthusiasm, and by the time people found out
that she was not exactly of their milieu, they
liked her, and it did not seem to matter. When
Mr. Honeychurch died, he had the
satisfaction--which few honest solicitors
despise--of leaving his family rooted in the
best society obtainable.
The best obtainable. Certainly many of the
immigrants were rather dull, and Lucy realized
this more vividly since her return from Italy.
Hitherto she had accepted their ideals without
questioning --their kindly affluence, their
inexplosive religion, their dislike of
paper-bags, orange-peel, and broken bottles.
A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with
horror of Suburbia. Life, so far as she troubled
to conceive it, was a circle of rich, pleasant
people, with identical interests and identical
foes. In this circle, one thought, married, and
died. Outside it were poverty and vulgarity for
ever trying to enter, just as the London fog