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

the home of people who loved their
surroundings honestly. Other houses in the
neighborhood had been built by expensive
architects, over others their inmates had
fidgeted sedulously, yet all these suggested
the accidental, the temporary; while Windy
Corner seemed as inevitable as an ugliness of
Nature's own creation. One might laugh at the
house, but one never shuddered. Mr. Beebe
was bicycling over this Monday afternoon with
a piece of gossip. He had heard from the Miss
Alans. These admirable ladies, since they
could not go to Cissie Villa, had changed their
plans. They were going to Greece instead.
"Since Florence did my poor sister so much
good," wrote Miss Catharine, "we do not see
why we should not try Athens this winter. Of
course, Athens is a plunge, and the doctor has
ordered her special digestive bread; but, after
all, we can take that with us, and it is only
getting first into a steamer and then into a
train. But is there an English Church?" And the
letter went on to say: "I do not expect we shall