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

"Buon giorno! Take the word of an old
woman, Miss Lucy: you will never repent of a
little civility to your inferiors. That is the true
democracy. Though I am a real Radical as well.
There, now you're shocked."
"Indeed, I'm not!" exclaimed Lucy. "We are
Radicals, too, out and out. My father always
voted for Mr. Gladstone, until he was so
dreadful about Ireland."
"I see, I see. And now you have gone over to
the enemy."
"Oh, please--! If my father was alive, I am sure
he would vote Radical again now that Ireland is
all right. And as it is, the glass over our front
door was broken last election, and Freddy is
sure it was the Tories; but mother says
nonsense, a tramp."
"Shameful! A manufacturing district, I
suppose?"