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Assignment to Chapter 25: Mr. Spragge Talks

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. Who impersonated Mr. Spragge?
2. How was Alan Carstairs connected to Mr. Spragge?
3. Who is Mrs. Templeton?
4. Where did John Savage meet Mrs. Templeton?
5. Where did Mrs. Templeton have a cottage?
6. Did John Savage have cancer?
7. How did John Savage die?
8. Why did Alan Carstair’s protest the will with Mr. Spragge?
9. Who did John Savage leave his possessions and money to?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Stammered (p. 116): to make involuntary halts or repetitions of a
sound or syllable when speaking
 Audacity (p. 117): bold, daring or fearless
 Impertinence (p. 117): overly bold or disrespectful
 Practical joke (p. 117): playful action or trick
 Lingering (p. 119): to be slow in acting, procrastinating

3. Make sure to know the following items:
paternally, benevolence, undue, a wax, safekeeping, a legacy, to
contest.

4. Find the English equivalents. Use them in your own sentences or in their
context:
мужність, герцог, одержимість, в здоровому глузді.

5. Reproduce the situations where the following is used:
p. 117 a spur of the moment
p. 118 to bring a case into court
twists and turns
to be a motto