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

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Miss Bartlett, and looked at her frayed glove<br />

"All right, if you'd really rather. Five shillings,<br />

and I gave a bob to the driver."<br />

Miss Bartlett looked in her purse. Only<br />

sovereigns and pennies. Could any one give<br />

her change? Freddy had half a quid and his<br />

friend had four half-crowns. Miss Bartlett<br />

accepted their moneys and then said: "But who<br />

am I to give the sovereign to?"<br />

"Let's leave it all till mother comes back,"<br />

suggested Lucy.<br />

"No, dear; your mother may take quite a long<br />

drive now that she is not hampered with me.<br />

We all have our little foibles, and mine is the<br />

prompt settling of accounts."<br />

Here Freddy's friend, Mr. Floyd, made the<br />

one remark of his that need be quoted: he<br />

offered to toss Freddy for Miss Bartlett's quid.<br />

A solution seemed in sight, and even Cecil,

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