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She had a blunt manner, a quick sense of human folly, and a sharp
tongue, so that many people did not like her.
But no one could deny that she was clever. She was not only
an accomplished musician, but she was a great reader and she was
passionately interested in painting. She had a very rare feeling for art.
She liked the modern, not from pose but from natural inclination, and
she had bought for next to nothing the pictures of unknown painters
who later became famous. You heard at her house the most recent and
difficult music and no poet or novelist in Europe could offer the
world something new and strange without her being ready to fight on
his behalf the good fight against the philistines. You might say she
was a highbrow; she was; but her taste was almost faultless, her
judgement sound, and her enthusiasm honest.

Assignments

1.Comprehension & discussion questions:

1. Why does the writer dislike long-standing engagements?
2. Why wasn’t Thomas Warton seriously taken by the critics?
3. What was peculiar about Mary Warton?

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Text 5

HARRY CHANDLER

(From Bachelors
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by H. Walpole )

Harry Chandler was of quite another kind: of middle height,
red-faced, short brown moustache, brown hair cut close to his head,
his eyes confident and unintelligent, his attitude that of a man who
knows his world, takes many baths, and has no doubts about

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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. 38-40.

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