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

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Why does any one tell anything? The<br />

question is eternal, and it was not surprising<br />

that Miss Bartlett should only sigh faintly in<br />

response. She had done wrong--she admitted<br />

it, she only hoped that she had not done harm;<br />

she had told Eleanor in the strictest<br />

confidence.<br />

Lucy stamped with irritation.<br />

"Cecil happened to read out the passage<br />

aloud to me and to Mr. Emerson; it upset Mr.<br />

Emerson and he insulted me again. Behind<br />

Cecil's back. Ugh! Is it possible that men are<br />

such brutes? Behind Cecil's back as we were<br />

walking up the garden."<br />

Miss Bartlett burst into self-accusations and<br />

regrets.<br />

"What is to be done now? Can you tell me?"<br />

"Oh, Lucy--I shall never forgive myself, never<br />

to my dying day. Fancy if your prospects--"

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