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

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Two kittens were playing. They had come in from outside. Now they were in the living room in the house. One kitten was named Snowball and one kitten was named Fuzzy. Suddenly, Snowball saw something interesting.

"Look at that!" said Snowball.

"What is it?" asked Fuzzy.

"It's a ball of yarn. On the top shelf!" said Snowball. She had seen the yarn that was kept in a basket up there!

"That looks like it's fun to play with!" said Fuzzy. "But how could we get to it? It's so high up," he wondered.

"I have an idea," said Snowball. "Watch this!" Suddenly, Snowball jumped up on to the couch.

"What are you doing?" asked Fuzzy.

"Just watch!" said Snowball. Snowball then jumped to the table next to the couch. Then, she jumped to the middle shelf.

"That's dangerous!" said Fuzzy. Snowball and Fuzzy were still small kittens. They weren't used to jumping very high yet.

"Don't worry, I'll be careful. I think we're allowed to be up here." said Snowball. Then, she jumped all the way to the top shelf, where the yarn was. "Look out below!" she yelled, and pushed the ball of yarn off the shelf and on to the floor.

"Whoa!" said Fuzzy. "Thanks!" Snowball then jumped down to the middle shelf, and down to the table, and down to the couch, and back to the floor. There, she and her brother played with the ball of yarn until they got tired and took a nap.

1. How many kittens were playing?
2. Where did they come from?
3. Where are they now?
4. What's the name of the first one?
5. And the other one?
6. What did the first one see?
7. Was it interesting?
8. What was it in?
9. And where was that placed?
10. What did Fuzzy think it'd be fun to do with it?
11. What gender is Fuzzy?
12. What about Swnoball?
13. What did she have?
14. What did she jump on first?
15. Then what did she jump on?
16. Where'd she go from there?
17. Did Fuzzy think that was safe?
18. Why not?
19. Were they big kittens?
20. Where did Snowball get in the end?
21. What was there?
22. What did she do with it?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Two
2. Outside
3. Living Room
4. Snowball
5. Fuzzy
6. Ball of yarn
7. yes
8. In a basket
9. On the shelf
10. to play with it
11. a boy
12. a girl
13. an idea
14. the couch
15. the table
16. The middle shelf.
17. No
18. They were young
19. No
20. The top shelf
21. the yarn.
22. Pushed it off

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXI

The great night came and passed with fewer thrills than any one had imagined possible. Horlock himself undertook the defence of his once more bitterly assailed Government and from the first it was obvious what the end must be. He spoke with the resigned cynicism of one who knows that words are fruitless, that the die is already cast and that his little froth of words, valedictory in their tone from the first, was only a tribute to exacting convention. Tallente had never been more restrained, although his merciless logic reduced the issues upon which the vote was to be taken to the plainest and clearest elements. He remained studiously unemotional and nothing which he said indicated in any way his personal interest in the sweeping away of the Horlock regime. He was the impersonal but scathing critic, paving the way for his chief. It was Dartrey himself who overshadowed every one that night. He spoke so seldom in the House that many of the members had forgotten that he was an orator of rare quality. That night he lifted the debate from the level of ordinary politics to the idyllic realms where alone the lasting good of the world is fashioned. He pointed out what government might and should be, taking almost a Roman view of the care of the citizen, his early and late education, his shouldering of the responsibilities which belong to one of a great community. From the individual he passed to the nation, sketching in a few nervous but brilliant phrases the exact possibilities of socialistic legislation; and he wound up with a parodied epigram: Government, he declared, was philosophy teaching by failures. In the end, Miller led fourteen of his once numerous followers into the Government lobby to find himself by forty votes upon the losing side.

1. Which regime was about to fall?
2. Who defended it?
3. Who was one of the people opposing it?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the Horlock regime
2. Horlock
3. Dartrey