Q: CHAPTER X.

"Yes, friends may be kind, and vales may be green, And brooks, may sparkle along between; But it is not friendship's kindest look, Nor loveliest vale, nor clearest brook, That can tell the tale which is written for me On each old face and well known tree."

R. H. FROUDE.

It was a happy day for both Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel when they again entered Devonshire. Agnes seemed to feel her four weeks as serious an absence as Marian did her four years, and was even more rapturous in her exclamations at each object that showed her she was near home.

They walked up the last and steepest hill, or rather bounded along the well known side path, catching at the long trailing wreaths of the dogrose, peeping over the gates which broke the high hedge, where Marian, as she saw the moors, could only relieve her heart by pronouncing to herself those words of Manzoni's Lucia, "_Vedo i miei monti._" ("I see my own mountains.") She beheld the woods and the chimneys of the Manor House, but she shrank from looking at it, and gazed, as if she feared it was but a moment's vision, at the rough cottages, the smoke curling among the trees, the red limestone quarry, and the hills far away in the summer garb of golden furze. It was home, her heart was full, and Agnes respected her silence.

Down the hill, along the well-known paling, past the cottages, the dear old faces smiling welcome; the Church, always the same, the green rail of the Vicarage garden, the paint was the only thing new; the porch, with roses hanging thicker over it than ever; Ranger, David Chapple, Jane, the housemaid, all in ecstasy in their different ways.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was having a good day?
2. Where were they?
3. Where did they enter?
4. How long had Agnes been away?
5. And the other woman?
6. What did they walk up?
7. What did they grab at, while doing this?
8. What did Marian see?
9. What structure did she behold?
10. What did she say to herself?
A: 1. Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel.
2. unknown
3. Devonshire.
4. Four weeks .
5. Four years.
6. The last and steepest hill.
7. The long trailing wreaths of the dogrose.
8. The moors.
9. Manor House
10. "_Vedo i miei monti._"

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER 52

Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray, but plucks up his Spirits again, and determines to attempt it. Domestic Intelligence of the Kenwigses and Lillyvicks

Finding that Newman was determined to arrest his progress at any hazard, and apprehensive that some well-intentioned passenger, attracted by the cry of 'Stop thief,' might lay violent hands upon his person, and place him in a disagreeable predicament from which he might have some difficulty in extricating himself, Nicholas soon slackened his pace, and suffered Newman Noggs to come up with him: which he did, in so breathless a condition, that it seemed impossible he could have held out for a minute longer.

'I will go straight to Bray's,' said Nicholas. 'I will see this man. If there is a feeling of humanity lingering in his breast, a spark of consideration for his own child, motherless and friendless as she is, I will awaken it.'

'You will not,' replied Newman. 'You will not, indeed.'

'Then,' said Nicholas, pressing onward, 'I will act upon my first impulse, and go straight to Ralph Nickleby.'

'By the time you reach his house he will be in bed,' said Newman.

'I'll drag him from it,' cried Nicholas.

'Tut, tut,' said Noggs. 'Be yourself.'

'You are the best of friends to me, Newman,' rejoined Nicholas after a pause, and taking his hand as he spoke. 'I have made head against many trials; but the misery of another, and such misery, is involved in this one, that I declare to you I am rendered desperate, and know not how to act.'

1. Who is losing their nerve?
2. Who is he worried about?
3. What is her last name?
4. Does he get it back?
5. Who is an obstacle for him?
6. By any means necessary?
7. What is he concerned with someone yelling?
8. Why?
9. What would happen then?
10. Could he get out easily?
11. What did he do because of this?
12. Where was he going?
13. What is his goal?
14. For his kid?
15. Is he discouraged by someone?
16. Who?
17. What does he decide to do then?
18. What if he is asleep?
19. Does someone disapprove?
20. Who?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Nicholas is
2. Madeline
3. Bray
4. Yes
5. Newman
6. Yes
7. Stop thief
8. some passenger might lay violent hands upon his person
9. a disagreeable predicament
10. No
11. slackened his pace
12. Bray's
13. to awaken consideration
14. Yes
15. Yes
16. Newman
17. go straight to Ralph Nickleby
18. He'll drag him from it
19. Yes
20. Noggs