A Room With A View

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If here and there he was dissatisfied or puzzled, he must acquiesce; she was choosing the better part.

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But down here he acts the little god with his gentility, and his patronage, and his sham aesthetics, and every one—even your mother—is taken in.

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but he was apathetic and dilatory.

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For all his culture, Cecil was an ascetic at heart, and nothing in his love became him like the leaving of it.

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Isn't Romance capricious!

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I will hear no breath of censure against our dear Queen.

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Lucy was recalled to her manners, and after a little exertion the complacency of Mr. Eager was restored.

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and on the river was a boat, also diligently employed for some mysterious end.

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She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over...

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A few people lingered round and praised her playing, but finding that she made no reply, dispersed to their rooms to write up their diaries or to sleep.

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George attended gravely, assenting or dissenting with slight but determined gestures

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month after month she became more eccentric and unreliable.

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and movement may engender shadow.

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She had imagined a young Mr. Emerson, who might be shy ... or furtively impudent.

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Eleanor was a reticent woman at heart.

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For he believed that women revere men for their manliness.

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Yet in their heart of hearts they are—how superficial!