Closing: Honeymoon in Florence

From A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The novel ends with Lucy and George back at the Pension Bertolini on their honeymoon, having defied family and convention, with the Arno singing below them as a symbol of passionate life unleashed.
Chapter 20

The final image: 'Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than this... and the river, the sacred river, was still rolling to the sea.' (Often cited as 'Across the river the Arno was singing.')

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