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

"Yes, easily. Jump in. Gracious me, how smart
you look! What a lovely frock! You put us all to
shame."
"If I did not wear my best rags and tatters
now, when should I wear them?" said Miss
Bartlett reproachfully. She got into the victoria
and placed herself with her back to the horse.
The necessary roar ensued, and then they
drove off.
"Good-bye! Be good!" called out Cecil.
Lucy bit her lip, for the tone was sneering. On
the subject of "church and so on" they had had
rather an unsatisfactory conversation. He had
said that people ought to overhaul themselves,
and she did not want to overhaul herself; she
did not know it was done. Honest orthodoxy
Cecil respected, but he always assumed that
honesty is the result of a spiritual crisis; he
could not imagine it as a natural birthright, that
might grow heavenward like flowers. All that
he said on this subject pained her, though he