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12. Wilson was manager of the Crawford Street branch of the York and
City.
13. Wilson’s wife died of bronchial pneumonia.
14. Wilson’s effects were sold.
15. Wilson got poisoned and was taken to the hospital.
16. Wilson read a story about Sybaris and Crotona.

3.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.
1. repine 10. prim 19. shingle 28. serenity
2. resignatio 11. garments 20. hover 29. atrophy
n 12. attire 21. tumbledown 30. trite
3. scrap-iron 13. portly 22. assumption 31. flaw
4. odd 14. emaciated 23. hanky-panky 32. tranquillity
5. singular 15. invigorating 24. gratuity 33. bewilder
6. exhilarate 16. tittle-tattle 25. strum
7. tickle 17. grove 26. zest
8. jabber 18. scrunch 27. elapse
9. creased

4.Reproduce the situations in which the following is used.
- a blaze of splendour; - to pension smb off;
- like tram-cars; - to call it a day;
- to confide in smb; - a shiver down one’s spine;
- to sink into the sea; - to lose the sense of beauty;
- to saunter to and fro; - independence of spirit;
- to break into a chorus; - to seek felicity;
- to claim the insurance money; - to know one’s own mind;
- to be in the habit of doing; - to cut the thread;
- to impart information; - to take leave;
- to settle down; - to occupy one’s mind;
- to disturb the serenity of existence; - to exercise power;
- a poke in the eye; - to settle accounts
- to indulge in smth; - to give notice
- a plume of smoke; - once in a blue moon;
- to settle the matter - to grudge smth

5.Answer the following questions.
1. Why was the writer curious to meet Wilson?