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

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nice, Miss Alan, after that business of the<br />

violets."<br />

"Violets? Oh, dear! Who told you about the<br />

violets? How do things get round? A pension is<br />

a bad place for gossips. No, I cannot forget<br />

how they behaved at Mr. Eager's lecture at<br />

Santa Croce. Oh, poor Miss Honeychurch! It<br />

really was too bad. No, I have quite changed. I<br />

do NOT like the Emersons. They are not nice."<br />

Mr. Beebe smiled nonchalantly. He had made<br />

a gentle effort to introduce the Emersons into<br />

Bertolini society, and the effort had failed. He<br />

was almost the only person who remained<br />

friendly to them. Miss Lavish, who represented<br />

intellect, was avowedly hostile, and now the<br />

Miss Alans, who stood for good breeding,<br />

were following her. Miss Bartlett, smarting<br />

under an obligation, would scarcely be civil.<br />

The case of Lucy was different. She had given<br />

him a hazy account of her adventures in Santa<br />

Croce, and he gathered that the two men had<br />

made a curious and possibly concerted

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