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

died away, she returned to her old shibboleth
of nerves. She "conquered her breakdown."
Tampering with the truth, she forgot that the
truth had ever been. Remembering that she
was engaged to Cecil, she compelled herself
to confused remembrances of George; he was
nothing to her; he never had been anything;
he had behaved abominably; she had never
encouraged him. The armour of falsehood is
subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a
man not only from others, but from his own
soul. In a few moments Lucy was equipped for
battle.
"Something too awful has happened," she
began, as soon as her cousin arrived. "Do you
know anything about Miss Lavish's novel?"
Miss Bartlett looked surprised, and said that
she had not read the book, nor known that it
was published; Eleanor was a reticent woman
at heart.
"There is a scene in it. The hero and heroine