Q: CHAPTER XXX

THE LADY FROM BEYOND

The morning was sultry, brooding, steamy. Antonia was at her music, and from the room where Shelton tried to fix attention on a book he could hear her practising her scales with a cold fury that cast an added gloom upon his spirit. He did not see her until lunch, and then she again sat next the Connoisseur. Her cheeks were pale, but there was something feverish in her chatter to her neighbour; she still refused to look at Shelton. He felt very miserable. After lunch, when most of them had left the table, the rest fell to discussing country neighbours.

"Of course," said Mrs. Dennant, "there are the Foliots; but nobody calls on them."

"Ah!" said the Connoisseur, "the Foliots--the Foliots--the people--er--who--quite so!"

"It's really distressin'; she looks so sweet ridin' about. Many people with worse stories get called on," continued Mrs. Dennant, with that large frankness of intrusion upon doubtful subjects which may be made by certain people in a certain way, "but, after all, one couldn't ask them to meet anybody."

"No," the Connoisseur assented. "I used to know Foliot. Thousand pities. They say she was a very pretty woman."

"Oh, not pretty!" said Mrs. Dennant! "more interestin than pretty, I should say."

Shelton, who knew the lady slightly, noticed that they spoke of her as in the past. He did not look towards Antonia; for, though a little troubled at her presence while such a subject was discussed, he hated his conviction that her face, was as unruffled as though the Foliots had been a separate species. There was, in fact, a curiosity about her eyes, a faint impatience on her lips; she was rolling little crumbs of bread. Suddenly yawning, she muttered some remark, and rose. Shelton stopped her at the door.

Answer the following questions:
1. what was Antonia doing in the beginning?
2. was someone listening?
3. who?
4. what he trying to so something else?
5. what?
6. on what?
7. what was she siting near?
8. did she have a sun tan?
9. what was her coloring?
10. who is the married girl?
11. was she talking with someone?
12. who?
13. what were they talking about?
14. did the married girl think they were good looking?
15. how did she think they looked?
A: 1. her music
2. Yes
3. Shelton
4. Yes
5. to fix his attention
6. a book
7. the Connoisseur
8. No
9. she was pale
10. Mrs. Dennant
11. Yes
12. the Connoisseur
13. the Foliots
14. No
15. interestin
Q: CHAPTER LVI. Ariadne

My Lord Castlewood had a house in Kensington Square spacious enough to accommodate the several members of his noble family, and convenient for their service at the palace hard by, when his Majesty dwelt there. Her ladyship had her evenings, and gave her card-parties here for such as would come; but Kensington was a long way from London a hundred years since, and George Selwyn said he for one was afraid to go, for fear of being robbed of a night,--whether by footpads with crape over their faces, or by ladies in rouge at the quadrille-table, we have no means of saying. About noon on the day after Harry had made his reappearance at White's, it chanced that all his virtuous kinsfolks partook of breakfast together, even Mr. Will being present, who was to go into waiting in the afternoon.

The ladies came first to their chocolate: them Mr. Will joined in his court suit; finally, my lord appeared, languid, in his bedgown and nightcap, having not yet assumed his wig for the day. Here was news which Will had brought home from the Star and Garter last night, when he supped in company with some men who had heard it at White's and seen it at Ranelagh!

"Heard what? seen what?" asked the head of the house, taking up his Daily Advertiser.

"Ask Maria!" says Lady Fanny. My lord turns to his elder sister, who wears a face of portentous sadness, and looks as pale as a tablecloth.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where was the Lord's house?
2. What was his name?
3. Was the building small?
4. What did Will bring home?
5. From where?
6. When?
7. How did he come across this information?
8. Where did they hear it?
9. And see it?
10. Was Kensington close to London?
A: 1. Kensington Square
2. Lord Castlewood
3. no
4. news
5. Star and Garter
6. \last night
7. when he supped in company with some men
8. White's
9. Ranelagh
10. no
Q: CHAPTER I

ANDY AND HIS UNCLE

"What be you a-goin' to do today, Andy?"

"I'm going to try my luck over to the Storburgh camp, Uncle Si. I hardly think Mr. Storburgh will have an opening for me, but it won't hurt to ask him."

"Did you try Sam Hickley, as I told you to?" continued Josiah Graham, as he settled himself more comfortably before the open fireplace of the cabin.

"Yes, but he said he had all the men he wanted." Andy Graham gave something of a sigh. "Seems to me there are more lumbermen in this part of Maine than there is lumber."

"Humph! I guess you ain't tried very hard to git work," grumbled the old man, drawing up his bootless feet on the rungs of his chair, and spreading out his hands to the generous blaze before him. "Did you see them Plover brothers?"

"No, but Chet Greene did, day before yesterday, and they told him they were laying men off instead of taking 'em on."

"Humph! I guess thet Chet Greene don't want to work. He'd rather fool his time away in the woods, huntin' and fishin'."

"Chet is willing enough to work if he can get anything to do. And hunting pays, sometimes. Last week he got a fine deer and one of the rich hunters from Boston paid him a good price for it."

"Humph! Thet ain't as good as a stiddy, payin' job. I don't want you to be a-lazin' your time away in the woods,--I want you to grow up stiddy an' useful. Besides, we got to have money, if we want to live."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is Andy's Uncle?
2. What is Andy trying to find?
3. Who will he talk to today?
4. Does he believe he'll be successful?
5. What state is he in?
6. Who else did he talk to about a job?
7. What is his uncle's full name?
8. Who didn't have any openings?
9. In what field?
10. Who else did his uncle want him to talk to?
11. Had he?
12. Who had?
13. When?
14. Were they hiring?
15. What did his uncle think Chet liked to do?
16. Did he think that was a good way to make a living?
17. Had Chet made some money doing it?
18. What did he sell?
19. Where?
20. For how much?
A:
1. Si
2. a job
3. Mr. Storburgh
4. No
5. Maine
6. Chet Greene
7. Josiah Graham
8. Sam Hickley
9. lumber
10. Plover brothers
11. No
12. Chet Greene
13. day before yesterday
14. No
15. huntin and fishin
16. no
17. yes
18. deer
19. Boston
20. good price