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So there was nothing to be done. For her I was one thing, for
other people, another. But can you ever tell what women see, when
they’re in love?

Assignments

1.Comprehension & discussion questions:

1. Do you agree that “ people never know very much about who
they are, nor about who is inferior to them and who superior”
2. Why was the main character careful not to make advances to
women?
3. Why was he afraid to get in anybody’s way?
4. Why did he consider fate a queer thing?
5. What kind of girl was Ida?
6. Why did they make friends?
7. What made him lose his head?
8. Why did he feel profoundly astonished?
9. How did Ida try to persuade him that he was worth loving?
10. What happened in the circus?
11. Did the incident change Ida’s attitude to the main character?
12. Do you support or refute the English proverb which goes as
”Beauty lies in lover’s eyes”?
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Text 4

THE WARTONS

(From The Social Sense
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by W. S. Maugham )

I do not like long-standing engagements. How can you tell
whether on a certain day three or four weeks ahead you will wish to
dine with a certain person? The chances are that in the interval

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Текст друкується за виданням Потапова И.А., Кащеева М.А. Пособие по
переводу английского литературного текста. – Москва: Высшая Школа.
1975. С. 22-23.

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