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
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- Page 387 and 388: Lucy thought of a very good remark.
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- Page 411 and 412: Cecil said, "Yes," while Freddy edg
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- Page 417 and 418: "Yes, Charlotte, I don't want you--
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- Page 433 and 434: dropped her evasive manner. "Why Gr
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- Page 437 and 438: wants to go to Greece. I don't know
- Page 439 and 440: "All right, dear," said Mrs. Honeyc
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- Page 443 and 444: lay poised below him-- now as a bea
- Page 445 and 446: Mrs. Honeychurch, who had come up t
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- Page 451 and 452: determined to make this point clear
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- Page 463 and 464: "But Mr. Eager--he came when I was
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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.