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

They went into the hall.
"Thank you. Good-night again. God bless
you, Lucy!"
"Good-bye, Cecil."
She watched him steal up-stairs, while the
shadows from three banisters passed over her
face like the beat of wings. On the landing he
paused strong in his renunciation, and gave
her a look of memorable beauty. For all his
culture, Cecil was an ascetic at heart, and
nothing in his love became him like the
leaving of it.
She could never marry. In the tumult of her
soul, that stood firm. Cecil believed in her; she
must some day believe in herself. She must be
one of the women whom she had praised so
eloquently, who care for liberty and not for
men; she must forget that George loved her,
that George had been thinking through her
and gained her this honourable release, that