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The sun rose higher on its journey, guided, not by Phaethon, but by Apollo, competent, unswerving, divine. The ladies move, Mr. Beebe moves, George moves, and movement may engender shadow. But this book lies motionless, to be caressed all the morning by the sun and to raise its covers slightly, as though acknowledging the caress. The garden of Windy Corners was deserted except for a red book, which lay sunning itself upon the gravel path. From the house came incoherent sounds, as of females preparing for worship. “The men say they won’t go”—“Well, I don’t blame them”—Minnie says, “need she go?
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It is hard when a person you have classed as typically British speaks out of his character. He was obliged to sit next to Mr. Emerson, but he would not speak to him. The old man was refreshed by sleep, and took up the matter warmly. He commanded Lucy to agree with him; he shouted for support to his son. For a moment the two girls looked at each other. Mr. Eager, who suffered from an over-fluent tongue rather than a resolute will, was determined to make himself heard.
As for Charlotte—as for Charlotte she was exactly the same. It might be possible to be nice to her; it was impossible to love her. Surely the vendor of photographs was in league with Lucy—in the eternal league of Italy with youth. He had suddenly extended his book before Miss Bartlett and Mr. Eager, binding their hands together by a long glossy ribbon of churches, pictures, and views. “Humiliating indeed,” said Miss Bartlett.
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The view was forming at last; she could discern the river, the golden plain, other hills. As her time at Florence drew to its close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent. Such a one was Miss Lavish, and such for the moment was Charlotte.
But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one’s temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it. Mr. Emerson was an old man, and surely a girl might humour him. On the other hand, his son was a young man, and she felt that a girl ought to be offended with him, or at all events be offended before him. It was at him that she gazed before replying. The young man named George glanced at the clever lady, and then returned moodily to his plate. Obviously he and his father did not do.
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George would seem to have behaved like a cad throughout; perhaps that was the view which one would take eventually. At present she neither acquitted nor condemned him; she did not pass judgement. Some complicated game had been playing up and down the hillside all the afternoon.
She has marked the kingdom of this world, how full it is of wealth, and beauty, and war—a radiant crust, built around the central fires, spinning towards the receding heavens. Men, declaring that she inspires them to it, move joyfully over the surface, having the most delightful meetings with other men, happy, not because they are masculine, but because they are alive. Before the show breaks up she would like to drop the august title of the Eternal Woman, and go there as her transitory self. Mr. Beebe rather felt that they had gone under.
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It faced north, so there was little view, and no view of the sky. Now, as in the winter, the pine-trees hung close to her eyes. One connected the landing window with depression. No definite problem menaced her, but she sighed to herself, “Oh, dear, what shall I do, what shall I do? ” It seemed to her that everyone else was behaving very badly. And she ought not to have mentioned Miss Bartlett’s letter.
But she had never imagined one who would be happy and greet her with the shout of the morning star. That evening and all that night the water ran away. On the morrow the pool had shrunk to its old size and lost its glory.
Here the voice of Miss Bartlett was heard saying that a crowd had begun to collect. A little scene ensued, which, as Miss Bartlett said afterwards, was most unpleasant. The horses were stopped, the lovers were ordered to disentangle themselves, the boy was to lose his pourboire, the girl was immediately to get down. It was hard on the poor chaplain to have his partie carrée thus transformed. Tea at a Renaissance villa, if he had ever meditated it, was now impossible. Lucy and Miss Bartlett had a certain style about them, and Mr. Beebe, though unreliable, was a man of parts.
The clergyman, inwardly cursing the female sex, bowed, and departed with her message. “Of course,” said the little old lady; and they murmured that one could not be too careful with a young girl. Mr. Beebe accepted the convenient word, not without a slight twitching of the lips. Only month and day are displayed by default.
For the companion who is merely uncongenial in the mediaeval world becomes exasperating in the classical. Charlotte, unselfish in the Forum, would have tried a sweeter temper than Lucy’s, and once, in the Baths of Caracalla, they had doubted whether they could continue their tour. Lucy had said she would join the Vyses—Mrs.
An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe. Away from it, in the solitude of their rooms, Mr. Beebe, and even Freddy, might again be critical. But in its presence and in the presence of each other they were sincerely hilarious. It has a strange power, for it compels not only the lips, but the very heart. The chief parallel to compare one great thing with another—is the power over us of a temple of some alien creed.
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