A Room with a View, Part 15 of 15
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So check it out. And perhaps you'll have another way to get a good night's rest. Just search Sleepy History in your preferred podcast player. Good evening, and welcome to the Sleepy Bookshelf, where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book. I'm your host, Elizabeth, and it is lovely to be here with you tonight. This evening, we'll be reading the final pages of A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. But first, lie down and settle in. Allow your body to find comfort. Gently close your eyes and take a deep breath in through your nose and hold it for a moment and then exhale through your mouth. Mindfully let go of any stress in your body as you breathe out. And starting at your feet. Imagine them becoming warm and heavy.
Sinking into the surface beneath you. While I recap the last episode. Continue up your body. mimicking that same heaviness. While Mr. Beebe initially questioned Lucy's sudden desire to travel to Greece with the Miss Allen's after ending her engagement to Cecil, Miss Bartlett insisted that leaving England was essential for Lucy's wellbeing. and hinted that she needed to escape an influence she could not openly discuss. Convinced by her urgency, Mr. Beebe persuaded Mrs. Honeychurch to allow the trip, and although Lucy expressed gratitude when her mother agreed, she seemed strangely subdued. In London, as preparations for the journey continued, Lucy and her mother argued about her growing desire for independence and her reluctance to announce the end of her engagement to the Miss Allens.
On the way back from town, while her mother dropped in for mass with Miss Bartlett, Lucy learned that the Emmersons had left their nearby house and met old Mr. Emerson in the rectory, who spoke sorrowfully about George's love for her and the despair he had fallen into after her rejection. Although Lucy tried to avoid discussing George, she was deeply affected by the conversation and became increasingly aware of the consequences of her actions. And that is just where we pick up tonight with Lucy on the brink of admitting her failed engagement to Mr. Emerson. So just lie back and relax as I turn to the final pages of A Room with a View.
Chapter 19 continued. Somehow, it was impossible to cheat this old man. To George, to Cecil, she would have lied again. But he seemed so near the end of things, so dignified in his approach to the Gulf, of which he gave one account, and the books that surrounded him, another. so mild to the rough paths that he had traversed, that the true chivalry, not the worn-out chivalry of sex, but the true chivalry that all the young may show to all the old awoke in her, And at whatever risk, she told him that Cecil was not her companion to Greece. And she spoke so seriously that the risk became a certainty. And he, lifting his eyes, said, You are leaving him.
You are leaving the man you love.
I... I had to.
Why, Miss Honeychurch? Why?
Tara came over her and she lied again. She made the long, convincing speech that she had made to Mr. Beebe and intended to make to the world when she announced that her engagement was no more. He heard her in silence and then said, My dear, I am worried about you. It seems to me... Dreamily, she was not alarmed. That you are in a muddle.
She shook her head. Take an old man's word.
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