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Howards End
by E. M. Forster

One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.
"Howards End, "Tuesday. "Dearest Meg,
"It isn't going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether
delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear
knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives to-morrow.
From hall you go right or left into dining-room or drawing-room. Hall
itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are
the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms
in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn't all the house
really, but it's all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from
the front garden.
"Then there's a very big wych-elm--to the left as you look up--leaning a
little over the house, and standing on the boundary between the garden
and meadow. I quite love that tree already. Also ordinary elms,
oaks--no nastier than ordinary oaks-- pear-trees, apple-trees, and a vine.
No silver birches, though. However, I must get on to my host and
hostess. I only wanted to show that it isn't the least what we expected.
Why did we settle that their house would be all gables and wiggles, and
their garden all gamboge-coloured paths? I believe simply because we

associate them with expensive hotels--Mrs. Wilcox trailing in beautiful
dresses down long corridors, Mr. Wilcox bullying porters, etc. We
females are that unjust.
"I shall be back Saturday; will let you know train later. They are as
angry as I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome,
he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay
fever in London? and even if he could, it seems hard that you should
give up a visit to hear a schoolboy sneeze. Tell him that Charles Wilcox
(the son