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Describe
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1.Paula’s confused feelings to Anson.
2.Anson as two alternating personalities.
3.Anson’s business life.
4.The evening at the Everglades Club.
Comment on the following.
1. Anson’s despair was helpless before his pride and his knowledge of himself.
2. He had one of those invaluable minds with partitions in it.
3. He needed to commit their destinies to no practical enigma.
4. Anson carried on his work without a break – rather with a fear of what would happen if he stopped.
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Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.
| - to be in charge of - in effect - through a complication - to back smb - to blunder - to be up to smb - callous - notorious - facet - an abandon to indulgence - infatuation - to inquire into smth - to question smth - a propensity to dissipation - to precipitate | - to hem smb in - to grant a place in the social edifice - contemptuous - decoy - timorous - ruse - atonement - opaque - to catch sight of smth - to overwhelm - imminent - to wink - to blur - abomination - solicitous |
Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.
Weakness, neglect, decline, scarcely, conceal, abruptly, spaciousness, engulf, dedication, invoke, delight, torture.
Answer the following questions.
1. What did Anson do in 1922?
2. Why did people trust him?
3. What was typical of him? Why?
4. Why did Anson invite the author to family dinners?
5. What was Dolly’s background?
6. What did she look like?
7. What did Dolly like about Anson?
8. What was Mrs. Karger’s attitude to Anson?
9. Why did Anson develop his affair with Dolly if he despised unstable women?
10. What did Dolly feel catching sight of Paula’s picture?
11. What happened after their visit to the Linx Club?
4.Which sentences are true?
1. At 27 Anson was stout with a manner older than his years.
2. Uncle Robert and his wife Edna had been Anson’s great friends.
3. Dolly was the daughter of a lawyer who had married into a society.
4. Dolly was slackly and indiscreetly wild.
5. Mrs. Karger didn’t believe that Anson could be reliable.
6. Anson was jealous – Dolly meant everything to him.
7. The estate in Port Washington belonged to Anson’s cousin.
8. After dinner they danced at the Linx Club.
9. Anson believed in God.
Put the events in the chronological order.
1. Mrs. Karger allowed Dolly to go with Anson to distant country clubs.
2. Dolly caught sight of Paula’s picture.
3. Uncle Robert slipped out of Anson’s life.
4. Anson was taken into the firm.
5. Anson took up the commanding position in Dolly’s heart.
6. Anson’s father died.
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