Edward Burton

(to puzzle, contradictory, appearance, to contradict, manner of, to describe, to strike... as, to give up, vacancy, instead of, to hurt, to judge by), '

2. Lanny Burton

(handsome, in a way, to think a lot of, experience iii, to be in (a) bad condi­tion, pretty, to hesitate, drive, (not) sensible, in low spirits, to be disappoin­ted, to object)

XXII. Using the words given in brackets retell the story in the person of:

Edward Burton (career, to be in charge of, to come across,: to puzzle, |p be willing to do smth., to strike... as, to make up (to change) one's' mind, in these circumstances, vacancy)

Turner (to turn up, to seem to be popular, always, to be in high spirits,
to have no experience, handsome, nice manners, to think a lot of, to strike
... as, in another two months, to give up all hope, to turn for help, to seem
to disappear)

Edward Burton's daughter (to describe, to arouse interest, to invite, to strike as handsome, to bewilling, to change one's mind, to take out, to seem to be rich, to ask her father, to make smb. angry, (not) to give in, to give up)

ХХШ. Pick out the words from the brackets to describe: a) a person's appearance; b) a person's character '

(appearance, features, thin, talented, lovely, experienced, proud, attractive, friendly, handsome, clever, figure, good-looking, contradictory, reliable, nice, curly, hair, small, disappointed, nose, cheeks, straight, sensitive, sen­sible, beauty, intelligent)

XXIV. Read and discuss the story:

MR. KNOW-ALL

Mr. Max Kelada aroused my dislike even before I knew him. The war had just finished and the passenger traffic in the ocean-going liner was heavy-Accommodation was veiy hard to get and you had to accept any vacant cabin offered to you. You could not hope for a cabin to yourself and I was thankful to be given one in which there were only two berths.* But when I was told the 'name of my companion I felt disappointed. I would have pre­ferred my fellow passenger's name to be Smith or Brown, but it was Kelada.

Mr. Kelada could not be described as handsome. He was short and rather fat, his long black hair was curly. His accent struck me as foreign.

He was fond of talking. He talked of anything that came to his mind. He discussed plays, pictures and politics. What he said was sensible but still by lunch time I got pretty tired and said, I would go down to the dining-room and get my seat at table.

" Oh, that's all right, " he said. " I've already taken a seat for you."

I not only shared a cabin with him and ate three jneals a day at the same table, but I could not walk round the deck without his joining me. I came across him always and everywhere. It never came to his mind that he was not wanted. He was sure that you were as glad to see him as he was to see you. He was a good mixer, ** and in three days knew everyone on board. He ran ev­erything. His experience seemed to be very wide. He conducted the auctions, collected money for prizes at the sports, organized a concert and arrange^ a ball. Probably, he expected to be praised, but he was certainly the best hated man in the ship. We called him Mr. Know-All, even to his face but he took it as a compliment. He seemed to know everything better than anybody else, and never hesitated about anything. He would not drop a subject, however unimportant, till he had made you think his way. The possibility that he could be mistaken never came to his mind. He was the fellow who knew., There was a man on board. He was Ramsay in the American Consular Service and was stationed at Kobe. He was on his way back to his post, after a flying visit to New York to get his wife who had been spending a year at

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