A Room with a View(看得见风景的房间)
E. M. Forster
Chapter 1The Bertolini
The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no
business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close
together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a
courtyard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!"
"And a Cockney, besides!" said Lucy, who had been further
saddened by the Signora's unexpected accent. "It might be London."
She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at
the table; at the row of white bottles of water and red bottles of
wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the
late Queen and the late Poet Laureate that hung behind the English
people, heavily framed; at the notice of the English church (Rev.
Cuthbert Eager, M. A. Oxon.), that was the only other decoration of
the wall. " Charlo…