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

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

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Greece?" "But I must go somewhere!" she cried. "I have been worrying all the morning, and here comes the very thing." She struck her knees with clenched fists, and repeated: "I must! And the time I shall have with mother, and all the money she spent on me last spring. You all think much too highly of me. I wish you weren't so kind." At this moment Miss Bartlett entered, and her nervousness increased. "I must get away, ever so far. I must know my own mind and where I want to go." "Come along; tea, tea, tea," said Mr. Beebe, and bustled his guests out of the front-door. He hustled them so quickly that he forgot his hat. When he returned for it he heard, to his relief and surprise, the tinkling of a Mozart Sonata. "She is playing again," he said to Miss Bartlett. "Lucy can always play," was the acid reply.

"One is very thankful that she has such a resource. She is evidently much worried, as, of course, she ought to be. I know all about it. The marriage was so near that it must have been a hard struggle before she could wind herself up to speak." Miss Bartlett gave a kind of wriggle, and he prepared for a discussion. He had never fathomed Miss Bartlett. As he had put it to himself at Florence, "she might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning." But she was so unsympathetic that she must be reliable. He assumed that much, and he had no hesitation in discussing Lucy with her. Minnie was fortunately collecting ferns. She opened the discussion with: "We had much better let the matter drop." "I wonder." "It is of the highest importance that there

Greece?"<br />

"But I must go somewhere!" she cried. "I have<br />

been worrying all the morning, and here<br />

comes the very thing." She struck her knees<br />

with clenched fists, and repeated: "I must! And<br />

the time I shall have with mother, and all the<br />

money she spent on me last spring. You all<br />

think much too highly of me. I wish you weren't<br />

so kind." At this moment Miss Bartlett entered,<br />

and her nervousness increased. "I must get<br />

away, ever so far. I must know my own mind<br />

and where I want to go."<br />

"Come along; tea, tea, tea," said Mr. Beebe,<br />

and bustled his guests out of the front-door. He<br />

hustled them so quickly that he forgot his hat.<br />

When he returned for it he heard, to his relief<br />

and surprise, the tinkling of a Mozart Sonata.<br />

"She is playing again," he said to Miss<br />

Bartlett.<br />

"Lucy can always play," was the acid reply.

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