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

intellectual life. How right is Signora Bertolini,
who exclaimed to me the other day: 'Ho, Mr.
Beebe, if you knew what I suffer over the
children's edjucaishion. HI won't 'ave my little
Victorier taught by a hignorant Italian what
can't explain nothink!'"
Miss Alan did not follow, but gathered that
she was being mocked in an agreeable way.
Her sister was a little disappointed in Mr.
Beebe, having expected better things from a
clergyman whose head was bald and who
wore a pair of russet whiskers. Indeed, who
would have supposed that tolerance,
sympathy, and a sense of humour would
inhabit that militant form?
In the midst of her satisfaction she continued
to sidle, and at last the cause was disclosed.
From the chair beneath her she extracted a
gun-metal cigarette-case, on which were
powdered in turquoise the initials "E. L."
"That belongs to Lavish." said the clergyman.