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

Minnie, go for her--get her over the shins with
the racquet--get her over the shins!"
Lucy fell, the Beautiful White Devil rolled
from her hand.
Mr. Beebe picked it up, and said: "The name
of this ball is Vittoria Corombona, please." But
his correction passed unheeded.
Freddy possessed to a high degree the
power of lashing little girls to fury, and in half a
minute he had transformed Minnie from a
well-mannered child into a howling
wilderness. Up in the house Cecil heard them,
and, though he was full of entertaining news,
he did not come down to impart it, in case he
got hurt. He was not a coward and bore
necessary pain as well as any man. But he
hated the physical violence of the young. How
right it was! Sure enough it ended in a cry.
"I wish the Miss Alans could see this,"
observed Mr. Beebe, just as Lucy, who was