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

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"No, I haven't," replied Lucy, and then could<br />

have bitten her tongue for understanding so<br />

quickly what her cousin meant. "Let me see--a<br />

sovereign's worth of silver."<br />

She escaped into the kitchen. Miss Bartlett's<br />

sudden transitions were too uncanny. It<br />

sometimes seemed as if she planned every<br />

word she spoke or caused to be spoken; as if<br />

all this worry about cabs and change had been<br />

a ruse to surprise the soul.<br />

"No, I haven't told Cecil or any one," she<br />

remarked, when she returned. "I promised<br />

you I shouldn't. Here is your money--all<br />

shillings, except two half-crowns. Would you<br />

count it? You can settle your debt nicely now."<br />

Miss Bartlett was in the drawing-room, gazing<br />

at the photograph of St. John ascending, which<br />

had been framed.<br />

"How dreadful!" she murmured, "how more<br />

than dreadful, if Mr. Vyse should come to hear

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