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Put the events in the chronological order.






1. Edna carried on an open intrigue with Cary Sloane.

2. Anson gave them his terms.

3. Dolly married.

4. Anson was made a partner in the firm.

5. Cary Sloane’s body was found on the lower shelf of a pillar of Queensboro Bridge.

6. Anson, Edna and Sloane dined at a small French restaurant.

7. Sloane walked suddenly off down the street and Anson tapped a dozing taxi-driver on the arm.

8. Anson traced down the sources of the scandal so that there should be no possibility of mistake.

9. A life-insurance company refused to issue Anson a policy.

10. Paula got divorced.

 

Reproduce the situations in which the following sentences are used.

1. What had been done at first through pride and superiority had become a habit and a passion.

2. He came to take a vicarious pleasure in happy marriages.

3. When Uncle Robert married her she didn’t have a penny.

4. Anson gave them his terms.

5. If that’s the case it better be explained to Uncle Robert.

6. Oh, haven’t you done enough to us one day?

 

Find evidence to prove that

1. Dolly’s marriage affected Anson in a different way.

2. Anson was always ready to give a helping hand to those who needed it.

3. Anson no longer rejoiced in his freedom.

4. Anson wanted to save Uncle Robert’s marriage.

5. Edna didn’t want any scandal.

Describe

1. Uncle Robert’s wife.

2. Aunt Edna’s intrigue.

3. Anson’s luncheon with Edna.

 

Comment on the following.

1. Anson had a foretaste of the sensation of a man of forty.

2. At the Yale Club Anson was a figure, a personality, and a tendency of his class.

3. Like all men who spring from a happy and successful marriage, Anson believed in it passionately.

4. Anson was learning the rarity, in a single life, of encountering true emotion.

5. … a feeling that was more than personal, a reversion toward that family solidarity on which he (Anson) had based his pride.

6. You are old enough to know better.

7. There would be appeal to his chivalry, then to his pity, finally to his superior sophistication.

8. The maid got hold of the wrong end of the thing.

9. Sloane’s father was a notorious fundamentalist.

VII

Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.

1. to bring about 2. to distort 3. to retire to a select Episcopal heaven 4. to chaperone 5. shortcoming 6. to diminish 7. obsequies 8. to be past all counting 9. to be drawn deep into domesticity 10. to exorcise 11. to make a resolution 12. alumni 13. to be out of order 14. to take to drink 15. to cut at smb 16. diminuative 17. cuspidor 18. to immure 19. to rove 20. to vanish 21. to flutter 22. poignancy 23. immaculate 24. cushion 25. esoteric 26. treachery 27. to get through the preliminaries

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