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”You see, you've filled yourself with a lot of meat and you can't
eat any more. But I've just had a snack and I shall enjoy a peach.”
The bill came and when I paid it I found that I had only enough
for a very small tip. Her eyes stopped for a moment on the three francs I
left for the waiter and I knew that she thought me mean. But when I
walked out of the restaurant I had the whole month before me and not a
penny in my pocket.
”Follow my example,” she said as we shook hands, ”and never eat
more than one thing for luncheon.”
”I'll do better than that,” I’ll eat nothing for dinner tonight.”
”Humorist'” she cried, jumping into a cab. ”You're quite a
humorist!”
I am not a bad man. But I am glad that today she weighs more
than three hundred pounds. So I had my revenge at last.

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Text 4

Read the text and answer the questions.

1. What did the author find when he got downstairs?
2. What did the author have to get used to?
3. What excuses did the author find for being late for breakfast?
4. What impressed the author?
5. Why did it seem strange to him that Maxim should sit down to
substantial breakfast?
6. What would the author never dare to ask?
7. Why did Beatrice want to come to Manderley?
8. What did the author find hardly comforting?
9. How had he imagined his first morning?

FIRST BREAKFAST AT HOME

(From ”Rebecca”
by D. du Maurier)

I never realized, of course, that life at Manderley would be so
orderly and planned. I remember now, looking back, how on that first
morning Maxim was up and dressed and writing letters even before
breakfast, and when I got downstairs, rather after nine o'clock, a little

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