Q: CHAPTER XXXVI Rockpier

For Love himself took part against himself To warn us off.--TENNYSON

Rosamond was to have a taste of her old vocation, and go campaigning for lodgings, the searching for which she declared to be her strongest point. Rockpier was to be the destination of the family; Eleonora Vivian, whose letters had been far fewer than had been expected of her, was known to be there with her father, and this was lure sufficient for Frank. Frank's welfare again was the lure to Mrs. Poynsett; and the benefit Rosamond was to derive from sea air, after all she had gone through, made Julius willing to give himself the holiday that everybody insisted on his having until Lent.

First, however, was sent off an advanced guard, consisting of Rosamond and Terry, who went up to London with Frank, that he might there consult an aurist, and likewise present himself to his chief, and see whether he could keep his clerkship. All this turned out well, his duties did not depend on his ears, and a month's longer leave of absence was granted to him; moreover, his deafness was pronounced to be likely to yield to treatment, and a tube restored him to somewhat easier intercourse with mankind, and he was in high spirits, when, after an evening spent with Rosamond's friends, the M'Kinnons, the trio took an early train for Rockpier, where Rosamond could not detain Frank even to come to the hotel with them and have luncheon before hurrying off to Verdure Point, the villa inhabited by Sir Harry. All he had done all the way down was to impress upon her, in the fulness of his knowledge of the place, that the only habitable houses in Rockpier were in that direction--the nearer to Verdure Point the more perfect!

1. TENNYSON
2. Rockpier
3. Eleonora Vivian
4. No
5. her father
6. Frank
7. Mrs. Poynsett
8. Yes
9. sea air
10. a month
11. Rosamond and Terry and Frank
12. His ears
13. deafness
14. a tube
15. Somewhat
16. he was in high spirits
17. the M'Kinnons
18. took an early train for Rockpier
19. the hotel
20. have luncheon

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the author of the quote at the beginning of the chapter?
2. Where was the family going?
3. Who was known to be there?
4. Did she correspond regularly?
5. Who was she with?
6. Who wanted to go to Rockpier because of her?
7. And who wanted to go because of him?
8. Is Rockpier near the ocean?
9. What would help Rosamond?
10. How long will the vacation be?
11. Who went to London?
12. What part of his body did Frank get checked?
13. What's wrong with them?
14. What was put in his ear?
15. Did it solve the problem?
16. How did that make him feel?
17. Who are Rosamond's friends?
18. What did the trio do with them?
19. Where did Rosamond want to go first?
20. And do what?

CHAPTER VI: FIRKET

June 7, 1896

Since the end of 1895 the Dervish force in Firket had been under the command of the Emir Hammuda, and it was through the indolence and neglect of this dissipated Arab that the Egyptian army had been able to make good its position at Akasha without any fighting. Week after week the convoys had straggled unmolested through the difficult country between Sarras and the advanced base. No attack had been made upon the brigade at Akasha. No enterprise was directed against its communications. This fatal inactivity did not pass unnoticed by Wad Bishara, the Governor of Dongola; but although he was nominally in supreme command of all the Dervish forces in the province he had hardly any means of enforcing his authority. His rebukes and exhortations, however, gradually roused Hammuda, and during May two or three minor raids were planned and executed, and the Egyptian position at Akasha was several times reconnoitred.

Bishara remained unsatisfied, and at length, despairing of infusing energy into Hammuda, he ordered his subordinate Osman Azrak to supersede him. Osman was a Dervish of very different type. He was a fanatical and devoted believer in the Mahdi and a loyal follower of the Khalifa. For many years he had served on the northern frontier of the Dervish Empire, and his name was well known to the Egyptian Government as the contriver of the most daring and the most brutal raids. His cruelty to the wretched inhabitants of the border villages had excluded him from all hope of mercy should he ever fall into the hands of the enemy. His crafty skill, however, protected him, and among the Emirs gathered at Firket there was none whose death would have given greater satisfaction to the military authorities than the man who was now to replace Hammuda. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was in command?
2. who was neglected?
3. when was he in command from?
4. was akasha attacked?
5. was the inactivity go unnoticed?
6. how often was convoys deployed?
7. who was in supreme command?
8. what was his other occupation?
9. of where?
10. did any one have the ability to enforce his rule?
11. when were the raids?12. how many raids?
13. what position was changed?
14. was he satisfied?
15. Who superseded him?
16. was he a normal dervish?
17. what was he a follower of?
18. was he a kind ruler?
19. what protected him?
20. who was wanted dead?
Answer:
1. the Emir Hammuda
2. the Dervish force
3. Since the end of 1895
4. no
5. yes
6. Week after week
7. Wad Bishara
8. Governor
9. Dongola
10. no
11. May
12. two or three
13. the one at Akasha
14. no
15. Osman Azrak
16. no
17. the Khalifa
18. no
19. His crafty skill
20. Osman