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5. If that’s the case it better be explained to Uncle Robert.
6. Oh, haven’t you done enough to us one day?

7.Find evidence to prove that
1. Dolly’s marriage affected Anson in a different way.
2. Anson was always ready to give a helping hand to those who needed
it.
3. Anson no longer rejoiced in his freedom.
4. Anson wanted to save Uncle Robert’s marriage.
5. Edna didn’t want any scandal.

8.Describe
1. Uncle Robert’s wife.
2. Aunt Edna’s intrigue.
3. Anson’s luncheon with Edna.

9.Comment on the following.
1. Anson had a foretaste of the sensation of a man of forty.
2. At the Yale Club Anson was a figure, a personality, and a tendency
of his class.
3. Like all men who spring from a happy and successful marriage,
Anson believed in it passionately.
4. Anson was learning the rarity, in a single life, of encountering true
emotion.
5. … a feeling that was more than personal, a reversion toward that
family solidarity on which he (Anson) had based his pride.
6. You are old enough to know better.
7. There would be appeal to his chivalry, then to his pity, finally to his
superior sophistication.
8. The maid got hold of the wrong end of the thing.
9. Sloane’s father was a notorious fundamentalist.
VII
1.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.
1. to bring about 14. to take to drink
2. to distort 15. to cut at smb
3. to retire to a select Episcopal 16. diminuative
heaven 17. cuspidor
4. to chaperone 18. to immure
5. shortcoming 19. to rove