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

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She did not. She said: "Come here, old<br />

lady--thank you for putting away my<br />

bonnet--kiss me." And, though nothing is<br />

perfect, Lucy felt for the moment that her<br />

mother and Windy Corner and the Weald in<br />

the declining sun were perfect.<br />

So the grittiness went out of life. It generally<br />

did at Windy Corner. At the last minute, when<br />

the social machine was clogged hopelessly,<br />

one member or other of the family poured in a<br />

drop of oil. Cecil despised their<br />

methods--perhaps rightly. At a11 events, they<br />

were not his own.<br />

Dinner was at half-past seven. Freddy<br />

gabbled the grace, and they drew up their<br />

heavy chairs and fell to. Fortunately, the men<br />

were hungry. Nothing untoward occurred until<br />

the pudding. Then Freddy said:<br />

"Lucy, what's Emerson like?"<br />

"I saw him in Florence," said Lucy, hoping

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