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

to have run away with Baedeker that morning
in Santa Croce. Charlotte was most annoyed at
finding me practically alone, and so I couldn't
help being a little annoyed with Miss Lavish."
"The two ladies, at all events, have made it
up."
He was interested in the sudden friendship
between women so apparently dissimilar as
Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish. They were
always in each other's company, with Lucy a
slighted third. Miss Lavish he believed he
understood, but Miss Bartlett might reveal
unknown depths of strangeness, though not
perhaps, of meaning. Was Italy deflecting her
from the path of prim chaperon, which he had
assigned to her at Tunbridge Wells? All his life
he had loved to study maiden ladies; they
were his specialty, and his profession had
provided him with ample opportunities for the
work. Girls like Lucy were charming to look at,
but Mr. Beebe was, from rather profound
reasons, somewhat chilly in his attitude