Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER SEVEN

"A common thief!"

Schomberg bit his tongue just too late, and woke up completely as he saw Ricardo retract his lips in a cat-like grin; but the companion of "plain Mr. Jones" didn't alter his comfortable, gossiping attitude.

"Garn! What if he did want to see his money back, like any tame shopkeeper, hash-seller, gin-slinger, or ink-spewer does? Fancy a mud turtle like you trying to pass an opinion on a gentleman! A gentleman isn't to be sized up so easily. Even I ain't up to it sometimes. For instance, that night, all he did was to waggle his finger at me. The skipper stops his silly chatter, surprised.

"'Eh? What's the matter?' asks he.

"The matter! It was his reprieve--that's what was the matter.

"'O, nothing, nothing,' says my gentleman. 'You are perfectly right. A log--nothing but a log.'

"Ha, ha! Reprieve, I call it, because if the skipper had gone on with his silly argument much longer he would have had to be knocked out of the way. I could hardly hold myself in on account of the precious minutes. However, his guardian angel put it into his head to shut up and go back to his bed. I was ramping mad about the lost time."

"'Why didn't you let me give him one on his silly coconut sir?' I asks.

"'No ferocity, no ferocity,' he says, raising his finger at me as calm as you please.

"You can't tell how a gentleman takes that sort of thing. They don't lose their temper. It's bad form. You'll never see him lose his temper--not for anybody to see anyhow. Ferocity ain't good form, either--that much I've learned by this time, and more, too. I've had that schooling that you couldn't tell by my face if I meant to rip you up the next minute--as of course I could do in less than a jiffy. I have a knife up the leg of my trousers."
1. nothing,' says who ?
2. who bit thier tongue ?
3. how mank things did he say that are tame ?
4. what is a shopkeeper ?
5. who went on a silly argument ?
6. then he would have what ?
7. who put something in his head ?
8. to do what ?
9. was he happy about loet time ?
10. how did he feel ?
11. who did not like his attutide ?
12. who does not gets angry ?
13. why ?
14. what else is not good form ?
15. what is up the leg of his pants ?
16. what was the matter ?
17. who asked that ?
18. who can not be sixed up do easy ?
19. name the person saying that ?

Numbered answers:
1. gentleman
2. Schomberg
3. Four
4. store owner
5. skipper
6. knocked out
7. uardian angel
8. shut up
9. no
10. mad
11. Ricardo
12. a gentleman t
13. It's bad form
14. Ferocity
15. a knife
16. his reprieve
17. he
18. gentleman
19. The skipper

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CHAPTER III

JERNYNGHAM MAKES A DECISION

Prescott's guests had spent a week at his homestead with content when Colston and his wife sat talking one morning.

"I'm frankly puzzled," said Colston, opening his cigar case; "I can't make Cyril out. He's frugal, remarkably industrious--I think the description's warranted--and, from all that one can gather, as steady as a rock. This, of course, is gratifying, but it's by no means what I expected."

"He certainly doesn't fit in with the picture his sister Gertrude drew me, though she conveyed the impression that she was softening things down. There can be no doubt that he was wild. That might, perhaps, be forgiven, but one or two of the stories I've heard about him filled me with disgust."

Her husband looked thoughtful. He had not noticed that Muriel was sitting just outside the open window, though Mrs. Colston, being in a different position, had done so. She thought their voices would reach the girl, and if anything strongly in Cyril's disfavor cropped up during the conversation it might be as well that she should hear it. Mrs. Colston was willing that he should be reconciled to his relatives, but a reformed rake was not the kind of man to whom she wished her sister to be attracted. One could not tell whether the reformation would prove permanent.

"After all, I never heard any really serious offense proved against him," Colston rejoined. "It's sometimes easy to acquire a reputation without doing anything in particular to deserve it. People are apt to jump at conclusions."
1. Who was outside the window?
2. What was she doing?
3. Did anyone see her?
4. Who?
5. What did Colston open?
6. Was he perplexed?
7. Who did he not understand?
8. Who had visitors?
9. Where?
10. How long?
11. When were the Coltons having a conversation?
12. Did somebody have a sibling?
13. Was it a brother?
14. And her name?
15. Did the wife want her to overhear the conversation?
16. Who had once been a rake?
Numbered answers:
1. Muriel
2. sitting
3. yes
4. Mrs. Colston
5. his cigar case
6. yes
7. Cyril
8. Prescott
9. at his homestead
10. a week
11. one morning
12. yes
13. no
14. Gertrude
15. yes
16. Cyril