РОССИЙСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ДРУЖБЫ НАРОДОВ Вагнер М-­‐Н.Л., Овезова У. А. УЧЕБНО-­‐МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ ПО ДОМАШНЕМУ ЧТЕНИЮ SENSE AND SENSIBILITY BY JANE AUSTEN
MACMILLAN READERS
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
МОСКВА 2012 Данное пособие предназначено для студентов 1-­‐2 курсов гуманитарных специальностей, изучающих английский язык (в рамках аспекта «домашнее чтение») и имеющих уровень intermediate. Целью пособия является расширение словарного запаса учащихся, а также развитие навыков чтения, перевода и пересказа. Пособие подготовлено на кафедре иностранных языков факультета гуманитарных и социальных наук. 2 INTRODUCTION 1. Read Jane Austen’s biography and study the underlined words: Jane Austen was a major English novelist, whose brilliantly witty, elegantly structured satirical fiction marks the transition in English literature from 18th century neo-­‐classicism to 19th century romanticism. Jane Austen was born on 16 December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. The seventh of eight children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra, she was educated mainly at home and never lived apart from her family. She had a happy childhood amongst all her brothers and the other boys who lodged with the family and whom Mr Austen tutored. From her older sister, Cassandra, she was inseparable. To amuse themselves, the children wrote and performed plays and charades, and even as a little girl Jane was encouraged to write. The reading that she did of the books in her father's extensive library provided material for the short satirical sketches she wrote as a girl. At the age of 14 she wrote her first novel, Love and Friendship and then A History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian, together with other very amusing juvenilia. In her early twenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were later to be re-­‐worked and published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey. She also began a novel called The Watsons which was never completed. As a young woman Jane enjoyed dancing (an activity which features frequently in her novels) and she attended balls in many of the great houses of the neighbourhood. She loved the country, enjoyed long country walks, and had many Hampshire friends. It therefore came as a considerable shock when her parents suddenly announced in 1801 that the family would be moving away to Bath. Mr Austen gave the Steventon living to his son James and retired to Bath with his wife and two daughters. The next four years were difficult ones for Jane 3 Austen. She disliked the confines of a busy town and missed her Steventon life. After her father's death in 1805, his widow and daughters also suffered financial difficulties and were forced to rely on the charity of the Austen sons. It was also at this time that, while on holiday in the West country, Jane fell in love, and when the young man died, she was deeply upset. Later she accepted a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-­‐Wither, a wealthy landowner and brother to some of her closest friends, but she changed her mind the next morning and was greatly upset by the whole episode. After the death of Mr Austen, the Austen ladies moved to Southampton to share the home of Jane's naval brother Frank and his wife Mary. There were occasional visits to London, where Jane stayed with her favourite brother Henry, at that time a prosperous banker, and where she enjoyed visits to the theatre and art exhibitions. However, she wrote little in Bath and nothing at all in Southampton. Then, in July, 1809, on her brother Edward offering his mother and sisters a permanent home on his Chawton estate, the Austen ladies moved back to their beloved Hampshire countryside. It was a small but comfortable house, with a pretty garden, and most importantly it provided the settled home which Jane Austen needed in order to write. In the seven and a half years that she lived in this house, she revised Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and published them in 1811 and 1813 and then embarked on a period of intense productivity. Mansfield Park came out in 1814, followed by Emma in 1816 and she completed Persuasion (which was published together with Northanger Abbey in 1818, the year after her death). None of the books published in her life-­‐
time had her name on them — they were described as being written "By a Lady". In the winter of 1816 she started Sanditon, but illness prevented its completion. Jane Austen had contracted a tubercular disease of the kidneys. No longer able to walk far, she used to drive out in a little donkey carriage which can still be 4 seen at the Jane Austen Museum at Chawton. By May 1817 she was so ill that she and Cassandra, to be near Jane's physician, rented rooms in Winchester. Tragically, there was then no cure and Jane Austen died in her sister's arms in the early hours of 18 July, 1817. She was 41 years old. She is buried in Winchester Cathedral. 5 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY BY JANE AUSTIN (MACMILLAN READERS, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL) CHAPTER 1 THE DASHWOODS OF NORLAND PARK 1. Words under study: to belong to heir to inherit the property funeral stepmother welcome guests to be dependent to persuade smb to remain friends with smb to make a promise to be delighted with china linen to be thoughtless to be unlike to shake one’s head to sigh to share love of art to be tricked into unsuitable marriages to make arrangements 2. Insert all necessary prepositions: a) He was not an unkind man, but he was very careful … money. b) They were very surprised … what they read there. c) Fanny had no kind feelings and she only thought … herself. She did not care … Mrs Dashwood and her daughters, but she was polite … them … first. d) No one can live … money. He and his brothers are dependent … their mother. She will expect her sons to choose rich women when they fall … love. e) “If all goes well, she will be married … a few months and she will have a home … own”. 6 3. Translate into English: 1) Это был красивый и большой дом, который принадлежал семейству Дэшвуд много лет. Владелец поместья, мистер Дэшвуд пригласил своего племянника пожить с ним. Поскольку он был не женат, его племянник был его единственным наследником. Это было упомянуто в его завещании. 2) После похорон своего родственника им пришлось уехать из этого дома, несмотря на то, что их уговаривали остаться и говорили, что они всегда будут самыми желанными гостями. 3) Ее брат совсем не похож на свою сестру. Он был добрым и застенчивым, но Элинор считала, что им лучше остаться друзьями. Когда ее мать пыталась возразить ей, она только вздохнула, покачала головой и добавила, что его мать также против невыгодных браков на бедных девушках. А он не мог возразить ей, т к полностью зависел от нее в материальном плане. 4) Когда были сделаны все приготовления, мама решила взять с собой кое-­‐
что из фарфора, белья и немного мебели. 4. Answer the following questions: 1) What was Norland Park? Who did it belong to? 2) Why did old Mr Dashwood invite Henry to live with him? 3) Who was Henry’s family? Who was John Dashwood? 4) Who was supposed to inherit old Mr Dashwood’s property? Why was Henry surprised at reading his will? 5) What did Henry tell John before his death? What promise did he ask him to make? 6) What had changed after Henry’s death? 7) What was Fanny Dashwood like? 8) Was Henry’s family happy after his death? Why? 9) Who was Edward Ferras? Was he alike his sister? 10) What were the relations between Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars? Did Elinor love him? 11) What was Fanny’s reaction to Edward and Elinor’s relations? Was she pleased? Why? 7 12) Where did Mrs Dashwood and her daughters decide to move? How did they succeed in finding a place for living? 13) Did they take anything with them? 5. Give the summary of the chapter 8 CHAPTER 2 BARTON 1. Words under study: to feel miserable a county to look out of the carriage windows steep hills a lawn of green grass to find out peoples’ secrets to tease smb cold-­‐hearted to admire the property to shelter from the rain to slip on the wet grass to hurt one’s ankle to bow politely to make a fine husband for any girl 2. Insert all necessary prepositions: 1) A fence … a small wooden gate separated the lawn … the road. 2) Mrs Jennings’ elder daughter was married … Sir John. Now her main interest was … find good husbands … all unmarried ladies … the neighbourhood. She found … other peoples’ secrets and private business, and she talked … them. 3) Lady Middleton looked bored … the conversation and said nothing. 4) They stood … the top of the hill and admired the property. They were told that the house belonged … an old lady whose name was Mrs Smith. Suddenly the sky became dark and the rain began. There were nowhere … sisters … shelter … the rain. They returned back … once … go home. 5) “What a handsome man! I look forward … seeing him. What do you think … him? He would make a fine husband … any girl.” 3. Translate into English: 1) Миссис Дэшвуд и ее дочери сначала почувствовали себя униженными, но когда они выглянули из окна повозки (кареты),увидели крутые склоны, 9 окружающие их новый дом и газон зеленой травы у дома, их настроение значительно улучшилось. 2) Мы решили пойти на прогулку, но как только мы вышли из дома, небо покрылось темными тучами, и хлынул дождь. Нам даже не удалось найти места для того, чтобы укрыться от дождя. 3) Мэриан внезапно поскользнулась на мокрой траве и подвернула лодыжку. Вокруг не было никого, кто бы мог помочь ей. Девушки стали звать на помощь, и какой-­‐то молодой человек поспешил к ним на помощь. 4) Молодой человек внес девушку в комнату. Миссис Дэшвуд была удивлена, увидев свою дочь у него на руках. Молодой человек все объяснил, вежливо поклонился и ушел. 4. Answer the following questions: 1) What was the journey from Sussex to Devon like? 2) How did the Dashwoods feel about their moving to Barton? 3) What did Barton Cottage look like? Where was it situated? 4) Who was Sir John Middleton? What kind of lifestyle did he keep? Who did he live with? 5) How was Mrs Jennings related to Sir John Middleton? What kind of person was she? 6) Why wasn’t Marianne interested in Colonel Brandon? 7) Why did Marianne and Margaret decide to go for a walk? Where did they go? 8) What happened to Marianne during their walk? 9) Who rushed to help the sisters? 10) What was Mrs Dashwood’s reaction to a young man’s appearance? 5. Give the summary of the chapter. 10 CHAPTER 3 MARIANNE AND WILLOUGHBY 1. Words under study: a careless laugh to be dull to accept one’s gift to be engaged to smb to have a lock of hair a pair of scissors to persuade a brother-­‐in-­‐law to recognize the writing to bow to smb to get into a curricle to climb up onto the seat 2. Insert prepositions: 1)The young man was delighted … their family and liked the girl very much. 2) The elder sister was unhappy … her sister’s behavior – as usual she thought only … her feelings. Elinor knew that that sensibility was more important … Marianne than good sense. 3) She wasn’t … love … him but enjoyed being … him. Whenever their neighbors invited guests … Barton Park, she always met him there. 4) He persuaded Marianne … sing … them, and she sat down … the piano and began … play. Willoughby walked quickly … the room and stood … her. 5) Everyone was very happy … suggestion. They all went outside. … …. the house, carriages were waiting … take them …. the hills. But only two people didn’t join them. Willoughby got … his curricle and Marianne climbed up … the seat … him. 3. Make the nouns: verb noun verb noun admire accept rescue persuade 11 behave recognise believe disappoint engage bow enjoy suggest converse relate think invite speak marry 4. Answer the following questions: 1) What was Willoughby’s attitude to the Dashwoods? 2) Did Willoughby and Marianne have a lot in common? How did they spend their time together? 3) Was Elinor happy about her sister’s behaviour? Why? 4) Why did Marianne and Willoughby laugh at Colonel Brandon? Did Elinor like it? 5) Why did Elinor often think of Norland Park? 6) What kind of gift did Willoughby want to give Marianne? And what was Elinor’s reaction to it? 7) Why did Margaret decide that Willoughby and Marianne were going to engage? 8) Which arrangement did Sir John and his guests talk about? Which plan did they decide to make? 9) Where did Colonel Brandon agree to take them? 10) Did Colonel Brandon go with them? Why? 11) Who were the two people who didn’t join the guests? 12) Where did Willoughby and Marianne spend their time? 5. Give the summary of the chapter 12 CHAPTER 4/5 TWO YOUNG MEN/NEW FRIENDS 1. Words under study: a fireplace to weep loudly a drawing room to quarrel fault to have a bad headache to be a clergyman to expect a child to complain about the weather to look up from to frown to praise everything to have a plain face a brooch to scratch vulgar words to smile a sly smile 2. Insert all necessary prepositions: 1) They were very surprised to see her run … them. She ran upstairs … room. The door was open and they saw the young man standing … the fireplace with his back … them. 2) She looked carefully … each person that she spoke … , and smiled. Both girls said they were pleased to see the sisters but they were more interested … Middleton’s children. 3) She sat down … table … the sitting-­‐room and began to draw. She was busy all the day but she was thinking … him . She was very worried … him. He was wearing a ring … a lock … hair … it. 4) Marianne was weeping all the night and … the morning she had a bad headache. She didn’t eat any breakfast and went … walk by herself. … the evening she began to cry again. She wept … many hours. 13 5) He bowed and left the room. … a few minutes, he was … of the house, …. his carriage, and driving away. 3. Make the sentences indirect: 1) “Don’t change anything in this cottage, dear Mrs Dashwood!”. 2) “Shall we see you here at dinner tomorrow evening?” 3) “What is the matter with Marianne?” Mrs Dashwood cried. 4) “No, Marianne is not ill,” he replied. “But I have some bad news and she is upset. Mrs Smith has given me her orders. I cannot disobey her. She is sending me on business to London. I must go at once.” 5) “Have you come from London?”-­‐Marianne answered. “No, I have come from Devon”, Edward replied. 6) “I agree, Mrs Dashwood”, he replied sadly. “I would like to become a clergyman, but my family don’t believe that this is a good profession. My parents wanted me to become a lawyer or a soldier, but these professions were not right for me”. 7) “What a sweet place this is now! You have made this room so comfortable. And look at these pretty drawings! Are they yours? How clever you are!”Charlotte said to Mrs Dashwood. 8) “Do you know him well?” Elinor asked Charlotte. “Oh, very well, though I have never spoken to him. We have never met in Somerset, but I have seen him many times in London. Everyone there knows that your sister will marry him. Colonel Brandon told me this when I saw him”. 9) “Please be quiet, Anne! Lucy said sharply. “Perhaps Miss Dashwood is not interested in young men. Or perhaps she doesn’t want to talk about them”, she added. 10) “Do you know Colonel Brandon well?” Elinor asked Charlotte. “Oh, yes”, she said. “A few years ago the Colonel wanted to marry me. But my mother decided that I must marry Mr Palmer and I am very happy with him.” 14 4. Answer the following questions: 1) Did Willoughby often visit Barton? 2) Why was Marianne crying so much? 3) Did Willoughby explain the reason of his departure? 4) Did Elinor understand why Edward had come and what his plans were? What kind of welcome did he receive? 5) What ring was Edward wearing? What did Elinor think about it? 6) Why wasn’t Edward happy in Mrs Dashwood’s opinion? Which profession did he have? 7) Who was Charlotte Palmer and what did she tell Elinor about their common friends? 8) How were the Steeles sisters related to Sir John? Did Elinor and Marianne meet them? Did they like them? 9) What kind of children did Sir John and lady Middletton have? 10) Did Miss Steele know Edward Ferrars? 5. Give the summary of the chapters. 15 Chapters 6-­‐7 LUCY’S SECRET/ AN INVITATION FROM MRS JENNINGS 1. Words under study: to be rude to smb to keep one’s thoughts to oneself to look sharply a fashionable part of London to refuse one’s invitation to find out smb’s feelings a letter to deliver a letter hunting to shake hands with smb for God’s sake a pale face 2. Insert all necessary prepositions: 1) She liked talking …. any person and never lost her chance to do it. Everybody was tired … her. 2) Lucy took … a small picture … Edward and showed it … Elinor. Elinor looked … the picture very sadly. She thought that his engagement … Lucy was a mistake. 3) Elinor asked Marianne who she was writing her letter … . Marianne didn’t reply, but Marianne saw letter W … the beginning … the address. 4) The door opened and she ran towards and nearly fell … the arms … the man who entered. But it wasn’t him. Her eyes filled … tears and she ran … the room. 5) She was waiting for his letter, but he didn’t reply. Mrs Jennings told her that they hadn’t arrived … London yet, because they went … hunting. She saw him at the party, but he even didn’t want to shake hands … her. 3. Complete the table: noun verb adjective to talk decision to please 16 death remarkable to enjoy help to trust consideration arriving relations furnished/furnishing to thank foolish to object 4. Answer the following questions: 1) Why didn’t Elinor like Lucy Steele? 2) What secret did Lucy reveal to Elinor? What was her (Elinor’s) reaction? 3) Which proof did Lucy show Elinor? 4) Why did Lucy choose Elinor to open the secret? Did Lucy consider her a real friend? 5) Which questions did Elinor decide to ask Lucy? What about? 6) Who invited the Dashwoods to London? Did they refuse the invitation? 7) What kind of house did Mrs Jennings have in London? 8) Who did the sisters sit down immediately to write letters to? 9) Did Marianne meet Willoughby at Palmer’s? Which explanation about his location did Mrs Jennings give her? 10) What were Colonel Brandon and Elinor talking about during his visit? 17 11) Where were the Dashwoods invited be the friend of Lady Middleton? 12) Did Marianne meet Willoughby their? Did she have chance to talk to him? 13) Was he polite to her? What did Marianne ask him about? 5. Give the summary of the chapters 18 CHAPTERS 8-­‐9 LETTERS/COLONEL BRANDON’S STORY 1.Words under study: a servant to treat smb badly therefore to look forward to doing smth to greet politely to be an orphan to make repairs to be divorced to guess the truth to seduce smb to deceive smb to fight a duel to give a birth to a child 2. Insert prepositions: 1) Marianne was very sad and thought that Elinor had Edward and looked forward … a life of happiness … him. Elinor’s idea was that it’s wrong … write … Willoughby if Marianne wasn’t engaged …. him. 2) Marianne was so unhappy that she wanted to go home …. two or three days. She didn’t want everybody to feel sorry … her. 3) She was … a terrible trouble because she had no money and was expecting a child. She gave a birth … a child and they both lived … the country. 4) He was looking … her everywhere and couldn’t find her. ….last he had succeeded … his efforts and put her … a comfortable place …. servants to look … her. 3. Match the halves: wait and hope wedding-­‐clothes to show the enemy to a life of happiness to leave for a reply to make repairs a duel 19 4. 1) to buy smb alone to fall in love one’s pride to fight to our house look forward with smb at once Answer the following questions: Why did Marianne get up early the morning after the party? 2) Did Willoughby answer Marianne’s letter? What was it about? 3) What did Elinor ask Marianne about? 4) What did Marianne think about Willoughby’s feelings? Were they true or not? 5) In Marianne’s opinion what made Willoughby so cruel to her? What did Elinor advise her to do? 6) Which news did Mrs Jennings hear about Willoughby? 7) Why did Colonel Brandon’s father bring Eliza to their house? What kind of person was she? 8) What were Brandon’s feelings to Eliza? 9) Why did he make her marry Brandon’s elder brother? 10) How long did their marriage last? 11) What happened to Eliza? Did Colonel manage to find her? 12) Did Eliza have any children? 13) Who did her daughter leave Bath with? Who was that man? 14) Why did Colonel Brandon and Willoughby fight a duel? Was anybody injured? 15)Why did Colonel tell this story to Elinor? 16) Did the sisters return to Barton? Why? 17) Did Willoughby marry anybody? 5. Give the summary of the chapters 20 CHAPTERS 10-­‐11 THE FERRARS FAMILY/THE SECRET IS OUT 1. Words under study: to go up to smb to remind of smb to call on smb expenses pair of screens to be embarrassed to keep engagements to be confident to give a gift wicked to faint to obey smb to be ordained 2. Agree with the statements: Example: Ann came to the party alone. Lucy too Ann came to the party alone. So did Lucy. 1) Anne was staying in London with the Middletons. Lucy too. 2) Mrs Jennings heard Lucy’s remark. Elinor too. 3) We must go and see her!-­‐ We too! 4) Anne said nothing. Elinor too. 5) No one suitable will be interested in her now!-­‐ Willoughby too. 6) Mrs Ferras had no idea about Edward’s engagement. Marianne too. 7) How frightened I am! – Me too! 8) I have been invited to another place.-­‐ His sister too. 9)Some young men keep engagements. Other young men too! 10) I like to give gifts to people. John too! 3. Translate into Russian: 1) Когда они зашли в магазин, девушка сразу заметила симпатичного молодого человека, одетого в дорогую и модную одежду. Она не встречала его раньше, но его лицо напоминало ей кого-­‐то. 21 2) Мать Эдварда нашла ему выгодную партию-­‐ это была мисс Мортон, чей годовой доход составлял 30.000 фунтов в год. Ей льстило еще и то, что она была дочерью лорда. 3) Миссис Ферарс была маленькой женщиной с невзрачным и бледным лицом. У нее всегда было сердитое выражение лица. Она не разговаривала с сестрами Дэшвуд, однако она постоянно улыбалась Люси. 4) В связи с тем, что дочь миссис Дженингс родила сына, ей приходилось все дни проводить с ней. Сестры Дэшвуд остались одни в доме. Как только сэр Джон узнал об этом, он сразу поспешил к ним, чтобы вручить им приглашение в их дом. Елинор была слишком хорошо воспитана, чтобы отклонить это приглашение. 5) Фанни особенно благоволила Люси, и ее глупая сестра подумала, что ей нужно рассказать ей о помолвке Эдварда и Люси. Когда Фанни услышала такие новости, она начала плакать и кричать на них. Она велела им немедленно покинуть ее дом. Менее, чем через полчаса, сестры ушли. 4. Answer the following questions: 1) Who called on Mrs Jennings in Berkeley Street? 2) What were Lucy and Elinor talking about? 3) Where did Elinor and Marianne go the following morning? 4) Who did Elinor see in the shop? Did she know that person? 5) What did John Dashwood ask Elinor about Colonel Brandon? 6) What suitable girl did Mrs Ferras find for Edward? 7) Who was invited to the Dashwoods’ party and who was going to be the most important guest(s)? 8) What did Mrs Ferrars look like? Describe her appearance 9) In what way did she behave? Was she polite? What did her daughter feel about her behavior? 10) What did Lucy tell Elinor when she came to visit Mrs Jennings? 22 11) Did Edward Ferras come to see Elinor? Did Marianne see him? 12) Why did the sisters have to stay at Mrs Jenning’s alone? 13) Where were they invited to? 14) Who else was invited to the Middletons? 15) What was Robert Ferrars like? Were they alike with Edward? 16) What piece of gossip did Mrs Jennings bring to Elinor one day? 17) What was Fanny’s reaction to that news? What did she tell the Steel sisters to do? 18) Did Edward agree to obey his mother? 19) What did Edward decide to do after the quarrel with his relatives? 20) What did Lucy ask for in her letter to Elinor? 5.Give the summary of the chapters 23 CHAPTERS 12-­‐13 COLONEL BRANDON OFFERS HIS HELP/CLEVELAND 1.Words under study: to wish for the peace and quiet of smth to look forward to doing smth to be ordained the curate in the church to find out the truth a piece of gossip to ride in a carriage to come indoors to catch a cold to have a fever forehead to look after smb to be at one’s worst to drive up to the house a wooden shutter to be out of danger for God’s sake to make an apology flattering to do one’s best to have many debts to grow very fond of smb to be ashamed to believe one’s flattery to suit smb better 2. Insert all necessary prepositions: a) I looked forward … meeting him but something was always disturbing me. b)The old lady had become very fond… young people playing active games. She was sitting … the armchair and smiling … them. c) The Colonel was very surprised … Mr Ferrars’ behavior and tried to find…the truth … Elinor. 24 d) He decided to leave … Barton and bring their mother … once because she wanted to look … her daughter herself. …half an hour a carriage was ready and he was … his way … Barton. e) …God’s sake! Tell me if she is better or not! I was very cruel …her, but I want … make an appologe and explain my behaviour … your sister. 3. Translate into English: 1)Мэриан очень устала и хотела провести время в тишине Бартона. Она с нетерпением ждала встречи с близкими ей людьми. 2)Эдвард будет посвящен в духовный сан и станет викарием церковного прихода. Он не унаследует денег матери, поэтому первое время доход Элинор и Эдварда будет составлять всего три тысячи фунтов в год. 3)Мэриан долго бродила среди высокой и мокрой травы. Когда она вошла, вся одежда была мокрой, и к вечеру она почувствовала себя плохо. Когда пришел доктор, он пощупал лоб Мэриан, измерил температуру и сказал, что она простудилась и у нее жар (лихорадка). 4)Вилоуби заявил, что не мог жениться на Мэриан, т к ему была нужна богатая наследница, чтобы расплатиться с долгами. Но ее внимание очень льстило ему и с каждым днем она нравилась ему все больше и больше. И ,наконец, он осознал, что влюбился в нее. 5)Полковник Брэндон молчал о своей любви к Мэриан, терпеливо ожидая, что она ,наконец, обратит на него внимание и полюбит. Никто не сомневался, что его любовь очень сильно отличается от любви Вилоуби-­‐ он любит ее намного искренней и сильнее. 4. Answer the following questions: 1) How long had the Miss Dashwoods been in London at the beginning of March? 2) Why did Marianne want to return to Barton? Why did the idea to go to Cleveland upset her? 3)What way did the Colonel want to help Edward Ferrars? Was Edward Ferrars happy about this idea? What was his reaction? 25 4) What did Mrs Jennings think of Elinor and Brandon’s relations? Was she right? 5) When did the sisters, Mrs Jennings and the Colonel leave for Cleveland? What was Cleveland like? 6) Who noticed that Marianne got sick? How did it happen? 7) What did the doctor say about Marianne’s illness? Why did he ask to send for Marianne’s mother? 8) What way was Marianne’s illness developing? Was she getting better? 10) Why did Willoughby come to see Marianne? Which explanations about his feelings did he give to Elinor? What did he askElinor to tell Marianne? 11) Did Elinor tell Marianne about Willoughby’s visit at once? Why? 5. Give the summary of the chapters. 26 CHAPTERS 14-­‐15 THE RETURN TO BARTON COTTAGE / ENGAGEMENTS AND MARRIAGES 1. Words under study: to make good use of one’s time to be wicked to wave one’s hand in greeting to give smb one’s best wishes to be on honeymoon a welcome guest to comfort smb to give birth to smb to make arrangements a daughter-­‐in-­‐law to move into a new house to love smb with all heart thoughtful to make smb a heir kind-­‐hearted to tease smb 2. Make questions to the underlined words: a) She (1)remembered the day that Willoughby(2) left Barton. b) Mrs Dashwood (1)would never forgive the young man for deceiving(2)both these young women. c) There was silence(1) and then Elinor(2) said something(3) about the weather(4). d) Edward(1) told his(2) mother(3) that Elinor Dashwood was soon going to be her daughter-­‐in-­‐law(4). e)John Dashwood (1)had to visit (2)Colonel Brandon’s home(3) at Delaford(4). 3. Translate into English: 1)Мэриан сказала своим сестрам, что проведет время с пользой. Она собиралась посвятить себя учебе, игре на пианино и чтению. 2)Миссис Дэшвуд встала, протянула свою руку молодому человеку и попросила его передать наилучшие пожелания его брату, который уехал со своей женой на медовый месяц. 27 3) Миссис Феррарс родила двух сыновей, старшим из которых был Эдвард. Но услышав о его тайной помолвке с Люси, она распорядилась, чтобы деньги унаследовал Роберт. Теперь для нее существовал только один сын. 4) Когда Мэриан было 17 лет, ей казалось, что полковник Брэндон слишком стар для того, чтобы выйти за него замуж. Но теперь, два года спустя она полюбила его всем сердцем и согласилась стать его женой. 5) Вилоуби очень сожалел о том, что потерял Мэриан, но его собственный брак не был таким уж плохим. Спустя некоторое время миссис Смит простила его и снова сделала своим наследником. 4. Answer the following questions: 1) Why do you think Marianne was crying when they reached Barton Cottage? How did she decide to spend her time their? 2) What did Elinor tell Marianne about Willoughby? Why didn’t she tell her about him earlier? What was Mrs Dashwood and Marianne’s reaction to it? 3)What kind of news about Edward reached the Dashwoods one day? 4) Why did Edward come to visit the Dashwoods? What did he tell Elinor about? 5) Why did Lucy Steel marry Robert Ferrars instead of Edward? Why did their mother get angry with Edward? 6) Was Edward sorry about his engagement to Lucy? Why? 7) What was Mrs Ferrars’ reaction to the news about Edward and Elinors engagement? Did she agree to the marriage? 8) Where and when were Elinor and Edward married? Where did they stay for the first month of their marriage? 9) Did Marrianne agree to marry Colonel Brandon? 10) What did Willoughby feel of Marianne’s marriage? 5.Give the summary of the chapters. 28 ADDITIONAL TEXTS FOR READING AND DISCUSSING The Cactus O. Henry The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves. That is what Trysdale was doing, standing by a table in his bachelor apartments. On the table stood a singular-­‐looking green plant in a red earthen jar. The plant was one of the species of cacti, and was provided with long, tentacular leaves that perpetually swayed with the slightest breeze with a peculiar beckoning motion. Trysdale's friend, the brother of the bride, stood at a sideboard complaining at being allowed to drink alone. Both men were in evening dress. White favors like stars upon their coats shone through the gloom of the apartment. As he slowly unbuttoned his gloves, there passed through Trysdale's mind a swift, scarifying retrospect of the last few hours. It seemed that in his nostrils was still the scent of the flowers that had been banked in odorous masses about the church, and in his ears the lowpitched hum of a thousand well-­‐bred voices, the rustle of crisp garments, and, most insistently recurring, the drawling words of the minister irrevocably binding her to another. From this last hopeless point of view he still strove, as if it had become a habit of his mind, to reach some conjecture as to why and how he had lost her. Shaken rudely by the uncompromising fact, he had suddenly found himself confronted by a thing he had never before faced -­‐-­‐his own innermost, unmitigated, arid unbedecked self. He saw all the garbs of pretence and egoism that he had worn now turn to rags of folly. He shuddered at the thought that to others, before now, the garments of his soul must have appeared sorry and threadbare. Vanity and conceit? These were the joints in his armor. And how free from either she had always been-­‐-­‐But why-­‐-­‐ As she had slowly moved up the aisle toward the altar he had felt an unworthy, sullen exultation that had served to support him. He had told himself that her paleness was from thoughts of another than the man to whom she was about to give herself. But even that poor consolation had been wrenched from 29 him. For, when he saw that swift, limpid, upward look that she gave the man when he took her hand, he knew himself to be forgotten. Once that same look had been raised to him, and he had gauged its meaning. Indeed, his conceit had crumbled; its last prop was gone. Why had it ended thus? There had been no quarrel between them, nothing-­‐-­‐ For the thousandth time he remarshalled in his mind the events of those last few days before the tide had so suddenly turned. She had always insisted upon placing him upon a pedestal, and he had accepted her homage with royal grandeur. It had been a very sweet incense that she had burned before him; so modest (he told himself); so childlike and worshipful, and (he would once have sworn) so sincere. She had invested him with an almost supernatural number of high attributes and excellencies and talents, and he had absorbed the oblation as a desert drinks the rain that can coax from it no promise of blossom or fruit. As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him. The scene was the night when he had asked her to come up on his pedestal with him and share his greatness. He could not, now, for the pain of it, allow his mind to dwell upon the memory of her convincing beauty that night-­‐-­‐the careless wave of her hair, the tenderness and virginal charm of her looks and words. But they had been enough, and they had brought him to speak. During their conversation she had said: "And Captain Carruthers tells me that you speak the Spanish language like a native. Why have you hidden this accomplishment from me? Is there anything you do not know?" Now, Carruthers was an idiot. No doubt he (Trysdale) had been guilty (he sometimes did such things) of airing at the club some old, canting Castilian proverb dug from the hotchpotch at the back of dictionaries. Carruthers, who was one of his incontinent admirers, was the very man to have magnified this exhibition of doubtful erudition. But, alas! the incense of her admiration had been so sweet and flattering. He allowed the imputation to pass without denial. Without protest, he allowed her to twine about his brow this spurious bay of Spanish scholarship. He let it grace his conquering head, and, among its soft convolutions, he did not feel the prick of the thorn that was to pierce him later. How glad, how shy, how tremulous she was! How she fluttered like a 30 snared bird when he laid his mightiness at her feet! He could have sworn, and he could swear now, that unmistakable consent was in her eyes, but, coyly, she would give him no direct answer. "I will send you my answer to-­‐morrow," she said; and he, the indulgent, confident victor, smilingly granted the delay. The next day he waited, impatient, in his rooms for the word. At noon her groom came to the door and left the strange cactus in the red earthen jar. There was no note, no message, merely a tag upon the plant bearing a barbarous foreign or botanical name. He waited until night, but her answer did not come. His large pride and hurt vanity kept him from seeking her. Two evenings later they met at a dinner. Their greetings were conventional, but she looked at him, breathless, wondering, eager. He was courteous, adamant, waiting her explanation. With womanly swiftness she took her cue from his manner, and turned to snow and ice. Thus, and wider from this on, they had drifted apart. Where was his fault? Who had been to blame? Humbled now, he sought the answer amid the ruins of his self-­‐
conceit. If-­‐-­‐ The voice of the other man in the room, querulously intruding upon his thoughts, aroused him. "I say, Trysdale, what the deuce is the matter with you? You look unhappy as if you yourself had been married instead of having acted merely as an accomplice. Look at me, another accessory, come two thousand miles on a garlicky, cockroachy banana steamer all the way from South America to connive at the sacrifice-­‐-­‐please to observe how lightly my guilt rests upon my shoulders. Only little sister I had, too, and now she's gone. Come now! take something to ease your conscience." "I don't drink just now, thanks," said Trysdale. "Your brandy," resumed the other, coming over and joining him, "is abominable. Run down to see me some time at Punta Redonda, and try some of our stuff that old Garcia smuggles in. It's worth the, trip. Hallo! here's an old acquaintance. Wherever did you rake up this cactus, Trysdale?" "A present," said Trysdale, "from a friend. Know the species?" "Very well. It's a tropical concern. See hundreds of 'em around Punta every day. Here's the name on this tag tied to it. Know any Spanish, Trysdale?" "No," said Trysdale, with the bitter wraith of a smile-­‐-­‐"Is it Spanish?" "Yes. The natives imagine the leaves are reaching out and beckoning to you. They call it by this name-­‐-­‐Ventomarme. Name means in English, 'Come and take me.' 31 The Elephant's Child RUDYARD KIPLING In the High and Far-­‐Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant-­‐-­‐a new Elephant-­‐-­‐an Elephant's Child-­‐-­‐who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his 'satiable curtiosities. He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her tail-­‐feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard, claw. He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! He asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why her eyes were red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, spanked him with her broad, broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted ! just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy paw. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! He asked questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this 'satiable Elephant's Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, "What does the crocodile have for dinner?" Then everybody said, "Hush!" in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time. By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-­‐a-­‐bit thornbush, and he said, "My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!" The Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, "Go to the banks of the great grey-­‐green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-­‐trees, and find out." That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this 'satiable Elephant's Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and 32 a hundred pounds of sugar-­‐cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-­‐crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, "Good-­‐bye. I am going to the great grey-­‐green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-­‐trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner." And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop. Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up. He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama's Country, and from Khama's Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-­‐green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-­‐trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said. Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this 'satiable Elephant's Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. It was all his 'satiable curtiosity. The first thing that he found was a Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake curled around a rock. "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child most politely, "but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?" "Have I seen a crocodile?" said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn. "What will you ask me next?" "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child, "but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner?" Then the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake uncoiled himself very quickly from the rock, and spanked the Elephant's Child with his scalesome, flailsome tail. "That is odd," said the Elephant's Child, "because my father and mother, and my uncle and my aunt, not to mention my other aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my other uncle, the Baboon, have all spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity-­‐-­‐
and I suppose this is the same thing." So he said good-­‐bye very politely to the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake, and helped to coil him up on the rock again, and went on, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up, till he trod on what he thought was a log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-­‐green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-­‐trees. 33 But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye-­‐-­‐like this! "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child most politely, "but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?" Then the Crocodile winked the other eye, and lifted half his tail out of the mud; and the Elephant's Child stepped back most politely, because he did not wish to be spanked again. "Come hither, Little One," said the Crocodile. "Why do you ask such things?" "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child most politely, "But my father has spanked me, my mother has spanked me, not to mention my tall aunt, the Ostrich, and my tall uncle, the Giraffe, who can kick ever so hard, as well as my broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my hairy uncle, the Baboon, andincluding the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake, with the scalesome, flailsome tail, just up the bank, who spanks harder than any of them; and so, if it's quite all the same to you, I don't want to be spanked any more." "Come hither, Little One," said the Crocodile, "for I am the Crocodile," and he wept crocodile tears to show it was quite true. Then the Elephants' child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled down on the bank and said, "You are the very person I have been looking for all these long days. Will you please tell me what you have for dinner?" "Come hither, Little One," said the Crocodile, "and I'll whisper." Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose, which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger than a boot, though much more useful. "I think," said the Crocodile-­‐-­‐and he said it between his teeth, like this-­‐-­‐"I think to-­‐
day I will begin with Elephant's Child!" At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant's Child was much annoyed, and he said, speaking through his nose, like this, "Led go! You are hurtig be!" Then the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake scuffled down from the bank and said, "My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-­‐pattern leather ulster" (and by this he meant the Crocodile) "will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson." This is the way Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake always talked. 34 Then the Elephant's child sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch. And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled. And the Elephant's Child's nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant's child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose kept on stretching; and the Crocodile threshed his tail like an oar, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and at each pull the Elephant's Child's nose grew longer and longer-­‐-­‐and it hurt him hijjus!! Then the Elephant's Child felt his legs slipping, and he said through his nose, which was now nearly five feet long, "This is to butch for be!" Then the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake came down from the bank, and knotted himself in a double-­‐clove-­‐hitch round the Elephant's Child's hind legs, and said, "Rash and inexperienced traveller, we will now seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do not, it is my impression that yonder self-­‐
propelling man-­‐of-­‐war with the armour-­‐plated upper deck" (and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the Crocodile) "will permanently vitiate your future career." That is the way all Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snakes always talk. So he pulled, and the Elephant's Child pulled, and the Crocodile pulled, but the Elephant's Child and the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake pulled hardest; and at last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant's Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo. Then the Elephant's Child sat down most hard and sudden; but first he was careful to say "Thank you" to the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake; and next he was kind to his poor pulled nose, and wrapped it all up in cool banana leaves, and hung it in the great grey-­‐green greasy Limpopo to cool. "What are you doing that for?" said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake. "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child, "but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink" "Then you will have to wait a long time," said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐
Snake. "Some people do not know what is good for them." The Elephant's Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint. For, O Best Beloved, you will understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk, same as all Elephant's have today. 35 At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder, and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that fly dead with the end of it. "'Vantage number one!" said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake. "You couldn't have done that with a mere-­‐smear nose. Try and eat a little now." Before he thought what he was doing the Elephant's Child put out his trunk and plucked a large bundle of grass, dusted it clean against his forelegs, and stuffed it into his mouth. "'Vantage number two!" said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake. "You couldn't have done that with a mere-­‐smear nose. Don't you think the sun is very hot here?" "It is," said the Elephant's Child, and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-­‐green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a cool schloopy-­‐sloshy mud-­‐
cap all trickly behind his ears. "'Vantage number three!" said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake. "You couldn't have done that with a mere-­‐smear nose. Now how do you feel about being spanked again?" "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child, "but I should not like it at all." "How would you like to spank somebody?" said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐
Rock-­‐Snake. "I should like it very much indeed," said the Elephant's Child. "Well," said the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake, "you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with." "Thank you," said the Elephant's child, "I'll remember that; and now I think I'll go home to all my dear families and try." So the Elephant's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree, instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do. When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and used it as a fly-­‐whisk; and he made himself a new, cool slushy-­‐squshy mud-­‐cap whenever the sun was hot. When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than several brass bands. He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus (she was no relation of his), and he spanked her very hard, to make sure that the Bi-­‐Coloured-­‐Python-­‐Rock-­‐Snake had spoken the truth about 36 his new trunk. The rest of the time he picked up the melon rinds that he had dropped on his way to the Limpopo-­‐-­‐for he was a Tidy Pachyderm. One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up his trunk and said, "How do you do?" They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, "Come here and be spanked for your 'satiable curtiosity." "Pooh," said the Elephant's Child. "I don't think you people's know anything about spanking; but I do, and I'll show you." Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels. "O Bananas!" said they, "Where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?" "I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-­‐green, greasy Limpopo River," said the Elephant's Child. "I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep." "It looks very ugly," said his hairy uncle, the Baboon. "It does," said the Elephant's Child. "But it's very useful," and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornets' nest. Then that bad Elephant's Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. He pulled out his tall Ostrich aunt's tail-­‐feathers; and he caught his tall uncle, the Giraffe, by the hind-­‐leg, and dragged him through a thorn-­‐bush; and he shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and blew bubbles into her ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals; but he never let any one touch the Kolokolo Bird. At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-­‐green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-­‐trees, to borrow new noses from the Crocodile. When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see besides all those that you won't, have trunks precisely like the trunk of the 'satiable Elephant's Child. The cop and the anthem O. Henry On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their 37 husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand. A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison Square, and gives fair warning of his annual call. At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready. Soapy's mind became cognisant of the fact that the time had come for him to resolve himself into a singular Committee of Ways and Means to provide against the coming rigour. And therefore he moved uneasily on his bench. The hibernatorial ambitions of Soapy were not of the highest. In them there were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies drifting in the Vesuvian Bay. Three months on the Island was what his soul craved. Three months of assured board and bed and congenial company, safe from Boreas and bluecoats, seemed to Soapy the essence of things desirable. For years the hospitable Blackwell's had been his winter quarters. Just as his more fortunate fellow New Yorkers had bought their tickets to Palm Beach and the Riviera each winter, so Soapy had made his humble arrangements for his annual hegira to the Island. And now the time was come. On the previous night three Sabbath newspapers, distributed beneath his coat, about his ankles and over his lap, had failed to repulse the cold as he slept on his bench near the spurting fountain in the ancient square. So the Island loomed big and timely in Soapy's mind. He scorned the provisions made in the name of charity for the city's dependents. In Soapy's opinion the Law was more benign than Philanthropy. There was an endless round of institutions, municipal and eleemosynary, on which he might set out and receive lodging and food accordant with the simple life. But to one of Soapy's proud spirit the gifts of charity are encumbered. If not in coin you must pay in humiliation of spirit for every benefit received at the hands of philanthropy. As Caesar had his Brutus, every bed of charity must have its toll of a bath, every loaf of bread its compensation of a private and personal inquisition. Wherefore it is better to be a guest of the law, which though conducted by rules, does not meddle unduly with a gentleman's private affairs. Soapy, having decided to go to the Island, at once set about accomplishing his desire. There were many easy ways of doing this. The pleasantest was to dine luxuriously at some expensive restaurant; and then, after declaring insolvency, be handed over quietly and without uproar to a policeman. An accommodating magistrate would do the rest. 38 Soapy left his bench and strolled out of the square and across the level sea of asphalt, where Broadway and Fifth Avenue flow together. Up Broadway he turned, and halted at a glittering cafe, where are gathered together nightly the choicest products of the grape, the silkworm and the protoplasm. Soapy had confidence in himself from the lowest button of his vest upward. He was shaven, and his coat was decent and his neat black, ready-­‐tied four-­‐in-­‐
hand had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day. If he could reach a table in the restaurant unsuspected success would be his. The portion of him that would show above the table would raise no doubt in the waiter's mind. A roasted mallard duck, thought Soapy, would be about the thing-­‐-­‐
with a bottle of Chablis, and then Camembert, a demi-­‐tasse and a cigar. One dollar for the cigar would be enough. The total would not be so high as to call forth any supreme manifestation of revenge from the cafe management; and yet the meat would leave him filled and happy for the journey to his winter refuge. But as Soapy set foot inside the restaurant door the head waiter's eye fell upon his frayed trousers and decadent shoes. Strong and ready hands turned him about and conveyed him in silence and haste to the sidewalk and averted the ignoble fate of the menaced mallard. Soapy turned off Broadway. It seemed that his route to the coveted island was not to be an epicurean one. Some other way of entering limbo must be thought of. At a corner of Sixth Avenue electric lights and cunningly displayed wares behind plate-­‐glass made a shop window conspicuous. Soapy took a cobblestone and dashed it through the glass. People came running around the corner, a policeman in the lead. Soapy stood still, with his hands in his pockets, and smiled at the sight of brass buttons. "Where's the man that done that?" inquired the officer excitedly. "Don't you figure out that I might have had something to do with it?" said Soapy, not without sarcasm, but friendly, as one greets good fortune. The policeman's mind refused to accept Soapy even as a clue. Men who smash windows do not remain to parley with the law's minions. They take to their heels. The policeman saw a man half way down the block running to catch a car. With drawn club he joined in the pursuit. Soapy, with disgust in his heart, loafed along, twice unsuccessful. On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses. Its crockery and atmosphere 39 were thick; its soup and napery thin. Into this place Soapy took his accusive shoes and telltale trousers without challenge. At a table he sat and consumed beefsteak, flapjacks, doughnuts and pie. And then to the waiter be betrayed the fact that the minutest coin and himself were strangers. "Now, get busy and call a cop," said Soapy. "And don't keep a gentleman waiting." "No cop for youse," said the waiter, with a voice like butter cakes and an eye like the cherry in a Manhattan cocktail. "Hey, Con!" Neatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiters pitched Soapy. He arose, joint by joint, as a carpenter's rule opens, and beat the dust from his clothes. Arrest seemed but a rosy dream. The Island seemed very far away. A policeman who stood before a drug store two doors away laughed and walked down the street. Five blocks Soapy travelled before his courage permitted him to woo capture again. This time the opportunity presented what he fatuously termed to himself a "cinch." A young woman of a modest and pleasing guise was standing before a show window gazing with sprightly interest at its display of shaving mugs and inkstands, and two yards from the window a large policeman of severe demeanour leaned against a water plug. It was Soapy's design to assume the role of the despicable and execrated "masher." The refined and elegant appearance of his victim and the contiguity of the conscientious cop encouraged him to believe that he would soon feel the pleasant official clutch upon his arm that would insure his winter quarters on the right little, tight little isle. Soapy straightened the lady missionary's readymade tie, dragged his shrinking cuffs into the open, set his hat at a killing cant and sidled toward the young woman. He made eyes at her, was taken with sudden coughs and "hems," smiled, smirked and went brazenly through the impudent and contemptible litany of the "masher." With half an eye Soapy saw that the policeman was watching him fixedly. The young woman moved away a few steps, and again bestowed her absorbed attention upon the shaving mugs. Soapy followed, boldly stepping to her side, raised his hat and said: "Ah there, Bedelia! Don't you want to come and play in my yard?" The policeman was still looking. The persecuted young woman had but to beckon a finger and Soapy would be practically en route for his insular haven. 40 Already he imagined he could feel the cozy warmth of the station-­‐house. The young woman faced him and, stretching out a hand, caught Soapy's coat sleeve. Sure, Mike," she said joyfully, "if you'll blow me to a pail of suds. I'd have spoke to you sooner, but the cop was watching." With the young woman playing the clinging ivy to his oak Soapy walked past the policeman overcome with gloom. He seemed doomed to liberty. At the next corner he shook off his companion and ran. He halted in the district where by night are found the lightest streets, hearts, vows and librettos. Women in furs and men in greatcoats moved gaily in the wintry air. A sudden fear seized Soapy that some dreadful enchantment had rendered him immune to arrest. The thought brought a little of panic upon it, and when he came upon another policeman lounging grandly in front of a transplendent theatre he caught at the immediate straw of "disorderly conduct." On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice. He danced, howled, raved and otherwise disturbed the welkin. The policeman twirled his club, turned his back to Soapy and remarked to a citizen. "'Tis one of them Yale lads celebratin' the goose egg they give to the Hartford College. Noisy; but no harm. We've instructions to lave them be." Disconsolate, Soapy ceased his unavailing racket. Would never a policeman lay hands on him? In his fancy the Island seemed an unattainable Arcadia. He buttoned his thin coat against the chilling wind. In a cigar store he saw a well-­‐dressed man lighting a cigar at a swinging light. His silk umbrella he had set by the door on entering. Soapy stepped inside, secured the umbrella and sauntered off with it slowly. The man at the cigar light followed hastily. "My umbrella," he said, sternly. "Oh, is it?" sneered Soapy, adding insult to petit larceny. "Well, why don't you call a policeman? I took it. Your umbrella! Why don't you call a cop? There stands one on the corner." The umbrella owner slowed his steps. Soapy did likewise, with a presentiment that luck would again run against him. The policeman looked at the two curiously. "Of course," said the umbrella man-­‐-­‐"that is-­‐-­‐well, you know how these mistakes occur-­‐-­‐I-­‐-­‐if it's your umbrella I hope you'll excuse me-­‐-­‐I picked it up this morning in a restaurant-­‐-­‐If you recognise it as yours, why-­‐-­‐I hope you'll-­‐-­‐" 41 "Of course it's mine," said Soapy, viciously. The ex-­‐umbrella man retreated. The policeman hurried to assist a tall blonde in an opera cloak across the street in front of a street car that was approaching two blocks away. Soapy walked eastward through a street damaged by improvements. He hurled the umbrella wrathfully into an excavation. He muttered against the men who wear helmets and carry clubs. Because he wanted to fall into their clutches, they seemed to regard him as a king who could do no wrong. At length Soapy reached one of the avenues to the east where the glitter and turmoil was but faint. He set his face down this toward Madison Square, for the homing instinct survives even when the home is a park bench. But on an unusually quiet corner Soapy came to a standstill. Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled. Through one violet-­‐stained window a soft light glowed, where, no doubt, the organist loitered over the keys, making sure of his mastery of the coming Sabbath anthem. For there drifted out to Soapy's ears sweet music that caught and held him transfixed against the convolutions of the iron fence. The moon was above, lustrous and serene; vehicles and pedestrians were few; sparrows twittered sleepily in the eaves-­‐-­‐for a little while the scene might have been a country churchyard. And the anthem that the organist played cemented Soapy to the iron fence, for he had known it well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars. The conjunction of Soapy's receptive state of mind and the influences about the old church wrought a sudden and wonderful change in his soul. He viewed with swift horror the pit into which he had tumbled, the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties and base motives that made up his existence. And also in a moment his heart responded thrillingly to this novel mood. An instantaneous and strong impulse moved him to battle with his desperate fate. He would pull himself out of the mire; he would make a man of himself again; he would conquer the evil that had taken possession of him. There was time; he was comparatively young yet; he would resurrect his old eager ambitions and pursue them without faltering. Those solemn but sweet organ notes had set up a revolution in him. To-­‐morrow he would go into the roaring downtown district and find work. A fur importer had once offered him a place as driver. He would find 42 him to-­‐morrow and ask for the position. He would be somebody in the world. He would. Soapy felt a hand laid on his arm. He looked quickly around into the broad face of a policeman. "What are you doin' here?" asked the officer. "Nothin'," said Soapy. "Then come along," said the policeman. "Three months on the Island," said the Magistrate in the Police Court the next morning. The Twelve Dancing Princesses Brothers Grimm There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up. However, every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night. Nobody could find out how it happened, or where the princesses had been. So the king made it known to all the land that if any person could discover the secret and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he would have the one he liked best to take as his wife, and would be king after his death. But whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, they would be put to death. A king's son soon came. He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds. There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing could happen without him hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open. But the king's son soon fell asleep; and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, for the soles of their shoes were full of holes. The same thing happened the second and third night and so the king ordered his head to be cut off. After him came several others; but they all had the same luck, and all lost their lives in the same way. 43 Now it happened that an old soldier, who had been wounded in battle and could fight no longer, passed through the country where this king reigned, and as he was travelling through a wood, he met an old woman, who asked him where he was going. 'I hardly know where I am going, or what I had better do,' said the soldier; 'but I think I would like to find out where it is that the princesses dance, and then in time I might be a king.' 'Well,' said the old woman, 'that is not a very hard task: only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening; and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be fast asleep.' Then she gave him a cloak, and said, 'As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.' When the soldier heard all this good advice, he was determined to try his luck, so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task. He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber. Just as he was going to lie down, the eldest of the princesses brought him a cup of wine; but the soldier threw it all away secretly, taking care not to drink a drop. Then he laid himself down on his bed, and in a little while began to snore very loudly as if he was fast asleep. When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, 'This fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!' Then they rose and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the mirror, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing. But the youngest said, 'I don't know why it is, but while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.' 'You simpleton,' said the eldest, 'you are always afraid; have you forgotten how many kings' sons have already watched in vain? And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.' When they were all ready, they went and looked at the soldier; but he snored on, and did not stir hand or foot: so they thought they were quite safe. Then the eldest went up to her own bed and clapped her hands, and the bed sank into the floor and a trap-­‐door flew open. The soldier saw them going down through the trap-­‐door one after another, the eldest leading the way; and 44 thinking he had no time to lose, he jumped up, put on the cloak which the old woman had given him, and followed them. However, in the middle of the stairs he trod on the gown of the youngest princess, and she cried out to her sisters, 'All is not right; someone took hold of my gown.' 'You silly creature!' said the eldest, 'it is nothing but a nail in the wall.' Down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully. The soldier wished to take away some token of the place; so he broke off a little branch, and there came a loud noise from the tree. Then the youngest daughter said again, 'I am sure all is not right -­‐-­‐ did not you hear that noise? That never happened before.' But the eldest said, 'It is only our princes, who are shouting for joy at our approach.' They came to another grove of trees, where all the leaves were of gold; and afterwards to a third, where the leaves were all glittering diamonds. And the soldier broke a branch from each; and every time there was a loud noise, which made the youngest sister tremble with fear. But the eldest still said it was only the princes, who were crying for joy. They went on till they came to a great lake; and at the side of the lake there lay twelve little boats with twelve handsome princes in them, who seemed to be waiting there for the princesses. One of the princesses went into each boat, and the soldier stepped into the same boat as the youngest. As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, 'I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.' 'It is only the heat of the weather,' said the princess, 'I am very warm, too.' On the other side of the lake stood a fine, illuminated castle from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets. There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was still invisible, danced with them too. When any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty. At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her. They danced on till three o'clock in the morning, and then all their shoes were worn out, so that they were obliged to leave. The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the 45 eldest princess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night. When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down. And as the twelve, tired sisters slowly came up, they heard him snoring in his bed and they said, 'Now all is quite safe'. Then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed. In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but determined to see more of this strange adventure, and went again on the second and third nights. Everything happened just as before: the princesses danced till their shoes were worn to pieces, and then returned home. On the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been. As soon as the time came when he was to declare the secret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listening behind the door to hear what he would say. The king asked him. 'Where do my twelve daughters dance at night?' The soldier answered, 'With twelve princes in a castle underground.' And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him. The king called for the princesses, and asked them whether what the soldier said was true and when they saw that they were discovered, and that it was of no use to deny what had happened, they confessed it all. So the king asked the soldier which of the princesses he would choose for his wife; and he answered, 'I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.' -­‐-­‐ and they were married that very day, and the soldier was chosen to be the king's heir. 46