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CHAPTER IX: HONOURS

In half an hour Paolo returned leading two horses. By their trappings and appearance both had evidently belonged to officers.

"Take off the trappings," Hector said, "then put a saddle on one for me; shift your own saddle on to the other, and picket your own with the spare horses of the staff, then we will ride over and get my saddle, bridle, holsters, and trappings. The horse has carried me well ever since I left Paris, and I am grieved indeed to lose it."

"So am I, master; it was a good beast, but I think that either of these is as good, though it will be long before I get to like them as I did Scotty. We shall want housings for this second horse, master."

"Yes; there will be no difficulty about that. There are scores of dead horses on the field; choose one without any embroidery or insignia. You may as well take another pair of holsters with pistols."

Riding across to the spot where Enghien and his officers were forming up the prisoners, talking courteously to the Spanish officers and seeing to the wounded, Hector, leaving Paolo to find his fallen horse and shift his trappings to the one that he rode, cantered up to the spot where Enghien's white plume could be seen in the midst of a group of officers, among whom was General Gassion. He saluted as he came up.

"I am glad indeed to see you, Captain Campbell," Enghien said warmly, holding out his hand; "I feared that you were killed. Some of my friends told me that you were struck down in the third charge, and that they had not seen you since and feared that you were slain."
1. How many horses did Paolo bring?
2. What could be guessed about the horses' origins?
3. How long was he gone?
4. What did he need to ride and fetch?
5. Did he miss his own horse?
6. Where is he from originally?
7. Were there many dead horses in the battlefield?
8. Who was organizing prisoners?
9. What distinguishing feature did he have?
10. Which General saluted them?
11. Was Enghien happy to see him?
12. What rumor had he heard?
13. During which charge?
14. Who had told him this rumor?
15. Where did Hector tell Paolo to take holsters and pistols from?

Numbered answers:
1. two
2. they had belonged to officers.
3. half an hour
4. saddle, bridle, holsters, and trappings
5. Yes
6. Paris
7. Yes
8. Enghien
9. white plume
10. General Gassion
11. Yes
12. he was killed
13. the third
14. Some of his friends
15. dead horse

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Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and the eighth largest country subdivision in the world, spanning over 1.6 million km (640,000 squaremiles). Xinjiang contains the disputed territory of Aksai Chin, which is administered by China. Xinjiang borders the countries of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The rugged Karakoram, Kunlun, and Tian Shan mountain ranges occupy much of Xinjiang's borders, as well as its western and southern regions. Xinjiang also borders Tibet Autonomous Region and the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. The most well-known route of the historical Silk Road ran through the territory from the east to its northwestern border. In recent decades, abundant oil and mineral reserves have been found in Xinjiang, and it is currently China's largest natural gas-producing region.

It is home to a number of ethnic groups, including the Uyghur, Kazakhs, Tajiks, Hui, Kyrgyz, Mongols, Han, and Russians. More than a dozen autonomous prefectures and counties for minorities are in Xinjiang. Older English-language reference works often refer to the area as "Chinese Turkestan". Xinjiang is divided into the Dzungarian Basin in the north and the Tarim Basin in the south by a mountain range. Only about 9.7% of Xinjiang's land area is fit for human habitation.
1. Where is Xinjiang located?
2. what is found at its borders?
3. How large is Xinjiang?
4. how does the rank in the world?
5. Do people live in most of that land?
6. about how much to live in?
7. Does it border many countries?
8. how many?
9. What type of reserves have been found here?
10. What is it the largest producing of in China?
11. Is there an ethnic mix of people?
12. how many prefectures for minorities are there?

Numbered answers:
1. China
2. mountain ranges
3. over 1.6 million km
4. eighth largest
5. no
6. about 9.7%
7. yes
8. Eight
9. oil and mineral
10. natural gas
11. yes
12. More than a dozen

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CHAPTER FIFTY THREE.

ON SAN MINIATO.

"I would speak with you," said Baldassarre, as Romola looked at him in silent expectation. It was plain that he had followed her, and had been waiting for her. She was going at last to know the secret about him.

"Yes," she said, with the same sort of submission that she might have shown under an imposed penance. "But you wish to go where no one can hear us?"

"Where _he_ will not come upon us," said Baldassarre, turning and glancing behind him timidly. "Out--in the air--away from the streets."

"I sometimes go to San Miniato at this hour," said Romola. "If you like, I will go now, and you can follow me. It is far, but we can be solitary there."

He nodded assent, and Romola set out. To some women it might have seemed an alarming risk to go to a comparatively solitary spot with a man who had some of the outward signs of that madness which Tito attributed to him. But Romola was not given to personal fears, and she was glad of the distance that interposed some delay before another blow fell on her. The afternoon was far advanced, and the sun was already low in the west, when she paused on some rough ground in the shadow of the cypress-trunks, and looked round for Baldassarre. He was not far off, but when he reached her, he was glad to sink down on an edge of stony earth. His thickset frame had no longer the sturdy vigour which belonged to it when he first appeared with the rope round him in the Duomo; and under the transient tremor caused by the exertion of walking up the hill, his eyes seemed to have a more helpless vagueness.
1. Who is the first character to speak in the passage?
2. Who was he speaking to?
3. Did one of them follow the other?
4. Who followed whom?
5. Where do they decide to go next?
6. Why do they decide to go there?
7. Do they travel there together?
8. Has Romola been to San Miniato before?
9. And Baldassarre?
10. Who has a secret?
11. Is Romola easily frightened?
12. What time of day is it?
13. Was San Miniato nearby?
14. What kind of trees did they stop by?
15. Was Baldassarre in good shape?
Numbered answers:
1. Baldassarre
2. Romola
3. Yes
4. Baldassarre followed Romola
5. San Miniato
6. So no one could hear them.
7. No
8. Yes
9. unknown
10. Baldassarre
11. No
12. Late afternoon
13. No
14. Cypress-trunks
15. No