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

she was too great for all society, and had
reached the stage where personal intercourse
would alone satisfy her. A rebel she was, but
not of the kind he understood--a rebel who
desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but
equality beside the man she loved. For Italy
was offering her the most priceless of all
possessions--her own soul.
Playing bumble-puppy with Minnie Beebe,
niece to the rector, and aged thirteen--an
ancient and most honourable game, which
consists in striking tennis-balls high into the
air, so that they fall over the net and
immoderately bounce; some hit Mrs.
Honeychurch; others are lost. The sentence is
confused, but the better illustrates Lucy's state
of mind, for she was trying to talk to Mr. Beebe
at the same time.
"Oh, it has been such a nuisance--first he,
then they--no one knowing what they wanted,
and every one so tiresome."