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Section Eight Section Eight Section Eight Section Eight Ex. 6 A: When I went out it was dark. B: Was it? A: Just at first I couldn’t see. B: Couldn’t you? A: After a while I got used to it. 452 B: Did you? A: I went to Tom’s and he wasn’t there. B: Wasn’t he? A: So I walked around and then came back home. B: Oh? A: And now if you like we’ll go to the pictures. B: Lovely. Ex. 15 MARK TWAIN IN FRANCE Mark Twain, the famous American writer, was travelling in France. Once he was going by train to Dijon. That afternoon he was very tired and wanted to sleep. He therefore asked the con ductor to wake him up when they came to Dijon. But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. “I’ll probably protest loudly when you try to wake me up,” he said to the conductor. “But do not take notice, just put me off the train anyway.” Then Mark Twain went to sleep. Later, when he woke up, it was nighttime and the train was in Paris already. He realized at once that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up at Dijon. He was very angry. He ran up to the conductor and began to shout at him. “I have never been so angry in all my life,” Mark Twain said. The conductor looked at him calmly. “You are not half so angry as the American whom I put off the train at Dijon,” he said. Section Nine Section Nine Section Nine Section Nine Section Nine Ex. 12 PLANNING A HOLIDAY “I say, what are you and your sister going to do for your holi day this year?” “Well, I don’t know. I should like to take my sister for a tour to the Baltic Sea, but then she can’t very well leave her children. What are you doing?” 453 “We shall go to the sea, I expect — for part of the time, any how. Then my wife and l may go off alone for a week or so in the car.” “Leaving the rest of the family behind, I suppose!” “Oh yes. They’ll be quite safe with their grandmother — and, besides, they’re ever so much happier playing about on the sands than spending long days in the car.” “Where do you go, as a rule?” “We’ve tried many seasideplaces on the east and south coasts: on the whole, I think we prefer the south. However, it really doesn’t seem to matter very much, as long as the young sters get a good sandy beach.” “What do you do? Take rooms, or stay at a hotel, or what?” “We’ve done both, and this year we’re taking a furnished house. Why don’t you make up your mind to join us? Find a house near by, and make a large party. It’ll be great fun.” “For my own part, I should love it. I’ll talk it over with my sister, and see what she thinks about it.” “Do, and let me know as soon as you can.” “Right. I will.” Ex. 16 THE KING AND THE CRITIC A king liked to write stories, which he thought were very good. The people to whom he showed them were afraid to criti cize them. They said that his stories were good. One day he showed some of them to a wellknown critic, who said that his stories were bad. The king got angry with him and sent him to prison. After some time the king pardoned the critic and when he returned invited him to his palace to dinner. Again he showed him some of his stories and again asked him what he thought of them. The critic turned to the guards who were standing behind him and said: “Take me back to prison.” |