Q: CHAPTER XXV

A WOMAN'S INFLUENCE

Muriel found it needful to wait several days for an opportunity for speaking to Prescott. It did not seem advisable to visit his house again, and she was at a loss for a means of meeting him when she overheard Leslie tell his wife that he would ask Prescott, who was going to Sebastian the next morning, to bring out some stores they required. The next day Muriel borrowed a team and, contenting herself with an intimation that she was going for a long drive, set off for the settlement. It would be time enough to confess her object if her sister taxed her with it, and there were one or two purchases she really wished to make.

She had never gone so far alone, though she had occasionally driven to an outlying farm, and the expedition had in it the zest of adventure. Moreover, she was boldly going to undertake a very unusual task in showing Prescott what he ought to do. So far, she had been an interested spectator of the drama of life, but now she would participate in it, exercising such powers as she possessed, and the thought was additionally fascinating because among her intimate friends she could not pick out a man who owed much to a woman's guidance. Her sister had some mental gifts, but Harry Colston, disregarding her in a good-humored but dogged fashion, did what he thought best; while the idea of Jernyngham's deferring to Gertrude was frankly ridiculous. Neither man had much ability; indeed, it was, as a rule, the dullest men who were most convinced of their superior sense. Prescott far surpassed them in intellect; but she pulled herself up. She was not going to dwell on Prescott's virtues unduly, and she had not convinced him yet.

1. Prescott
2. Sebastian
3. Leslie
4. to bring out some stores
5. from Sebastian
6. set off for the settlement
7. a spectator
8. she would participate in it
9. 0
10. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who was Muriel concerned about?
2. Who would send for him?
3. Who would ask him for a favor?
4. What was the favor?
5. From where?
6. What did Muriel do early the following day?
7. What did she feel she was in life's drama?
8. But now?
9. How many times before had she gone this distance alone?
10. Was it a short distance?

Q: Kazakhstan (, ; , "Qazaqstan", ; , "Kazakhstan"), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (, "Qazaqstan Respwblikas"; , "Respublika Kazakhstan"), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of . Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central Asia economically, generating 60% of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil/gas industry. It also has vast mineral resources.

Kazakhstan is officially a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage. Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and also adjoins a large part of the Caspian Sea. The terrain of Kazakhstan includes flatlands, steppe, taiga, rock canyons, hills, deltas, snow-capped mountains, and deserts. Kazakhstan has an estimated 18 million people . Given its large land area, its population density is among the lowest, at less than 6 people per square kilometre (15 people per sq. mi.). The capital is Astana, where it was moved in 1997 from Almaty, the country's largest city.

The territory of Kazakhstan has historically been inhabited by Turkic nomads who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states such as Turkic Khaganate and etc. In the 13th century, the territory joined the Mongolian Empire under Genghis Khan. By the 16th century, the Kazakh emerged as a distinct group, divided into three "juz" (ancestor branches occupying specific territories). The Russians began advancing into the Kazakh steppe in the 18th century, and by the mid-19th century, they nominally ruled all of Kazakhstan as part of the Russian Empire. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, and subsequent civil war, the territory of Kazakhstan was reorganised several times. In 1936, it was made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union.

1. no
2. no
3. eight
4. none
5. yes
6. Caspian Sea.
7. Turkic
8. Turkic
9. Genghis Khan
10. yes
11. 13th century,
12. True
13. 1936
14. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
15. yes
16. flatlands
17. steppe
18. no
19. yes
20. estimated 18 million

Numbered questions:
1. Does Kazakhstan border an ocean?
2. Is it the biggest country in the world?
3. How many are bigger?
4. How many landlocked countries are bigger?
5. Does the country border any water at all?
6. What body of water?
7. What kind of nomads used to live in Kazakhstan?
8. What states did they descend from?
9. Who ruled the Mongolian Empire?
10. Did Kazakhstan join it?
11. When?
12. True or False: The area was once part of the USSR.
13. When did this begin?
14. What was it called then?
15. Is the terrain of the country varied?
16. What is one type of terrain included?
17. And another?
18. Is rainforest included?
19. What about desert?
20. How many people live in the country?

Q: CHAPTER V

MADAME RIENNES

About 11 o'clock on the day following this conversation, Godfrey found himself standing on the platform in the big station of Lucerne.

"How are you going to get to Kleindorf?" Miss Ogilvy asked of him. "It's five miles away by the road. I think you had better come to my house and have some _dejeuner_. Afterwards I will send you there in the carriage."

As she spoke a tall gaunt man in ultra-clerical attire, with a very large hooked nose and wearing a pair of blue spectacles, came shuffling towards them.

"Madame is Engleesh?" he said, peering at her through the blue glasses. "Oh! it is easy to know it, though I am so blind. Has Madame by chance seen a leetle, leetle Engleesh boy, who should arrive out of this train? I look everywhere and I cannot find him, and the conducteur, he says he not there. No leetle boy in the second class. His name it is Godfrey, the son of an English pasteur, a man who fear God in the right way."

There was something so absurd in the old gentleman's appearance and method of address, that Miss Ogilvy, who had a sense of humour, was obliged to turn away to hide her mirth. Recovering, she answered:

"I think this is your little boy, Monsieur le Pasteur," and she indicated the tall and handsome Godfrey, who stood gazing at his future instructor open-mouthed. Whoever he had met in his visions, the Pasteur Boiset was not one of them. Never, asleep or waking, had he seen anyone in the least like him.

1. About 11 o'clock
2. unknown
3. five miles by road
4. Godfrey
5. Lucerne
6. Miss Ogilvy
7. a tall gaunt man with a very large hooked nose
8. yes
9. a little English boy
10. an English pasteur
11. second
12. Godfrey
13. not by himself
14. yes
15. Miss Ogilvy
16. in front of them
17. no
18. no
19. no
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. What time was it?
2. away
3. how far away is kleindor?
4. who was standing on a platform?
5. where was the platform?
6. who spoke to a man?
7. what did he look like?
8. Did he wear glasses?
9. what was he looking for?
10. how was he the son of?
11. Whas class was he supposed to be in?
12. what is his name?
13. could he find him?
14. was the little boy found?
15. who found him?
16. where was he?
17. was he a little boy?
18. was he short?
19. was the man who the boy pictured?
20. did madame think the man was funny?