A Room with a View
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He longed to hint to her that not here lay her vocation; that a woman’s power and charm reside in mystery, not in muscular rant. But
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“Water’s wonderful!” cried Freddy, prancing in. “Water’s water,” murmured George. Wetting his hair first—a sure sign of apathy—
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She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?
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“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm—yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
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She might be forgetting her Italy, but she was noticing more things in her England. One
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The book, as if it had not worked mischief enough, had been forgotten, and Cecil must go back for it; and George, who loved passionately, must blunder against her in the narrow path. “No—” she gasped, and, for the second time, was kissed by him. As if no more was possible, he slipped back; Cecil rejoined her; they reached the upper lawn alone.
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Lucy thought of a very good remark. “You say Mr. Vyse wants me to listen to him, Mr. Emerson. Pardon me for suggesting that you have caught the habit.”
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“I’m the same kind of brute at bottom. This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together before they shall enter the garden.
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improve. I have never known you till this evening. I have just used you as a peg for my silly notions of what a woman should be.
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Then she lost her balance. She cried: “If you think I am in love with some one else, you are very much mistaken.”
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The night received her, as it had received Miss Bartlett thirty years before.
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and he blessed the people and the things who had taken so much trouble about a young fool.