Question:
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CHAPTER VI.

THE WATER-SOLDIER.

'Presumptuous maid, with looks intent, Again she stretched, again she bent, Nor knew the gulf between.'--GRAY.

It all seemed like a dream to Ursula, perhaps likewise to her mother, when they rose to the routine of daily life with the ordinary interests of the day before them. There was a latent unwillingness in Mrs. Egremont's mind to discuss the subject with either aunt or daughter; and when the post brought no letter, Ursula, after a moment's sense of flatness, was relieved, and returned to her eager desire to hurry after the water-soldier. It was feasible that very afternoon. Mary Nugent came in with the intelligence.

'And can Gerard come? or we shall only look at it.'

'Yes, Gerard can come, and so will Mr. Dutton,' said Mary, who, standing about half-way between Mrs. Egremont and her daughter, did not think herself quite a sufficient chaperon.

'He will look on like a hen at her ducklings,' said Nuttie. 'It is cruel to take him, poor man!'

'Meantime, Nuttie, do you like an hour of "Marie Stuart?"'

'Oh, thank you!' But she whispered, 'Aunt Ursel, may I tell her?'

'Ask your mother, my dear.'

Leave was given, half reluctantly, and with a prohibition against mentioning the subject to any one else, but both mother and aunt had confidence in Mary Nugent's wisdom and discretion, so the two friends sat on the wall together, and Ursula poured out her heart. Poor little girl! she was greatly discomfited at the vanishing of her noble vision of the heroic self-devoted father, and ready on the other hand to believe him a villain, like Bertram Risingham, or 'the Pirate,' being possessed by this idea on account of his West Indian voyages. At any rate, she was determined not to be accepted or acknowledged without her mother, and was already rehearsing magnanimous letters of refusal.
1. did someone come in?
2. who?
3. with?
4. was she wise?
5. how do you know?
6. did she speak?
7. what did she say?
8. where was she when she spoke?
9. what roman numeral is shown?
10. did someone have a difficulty with their mind?
11. who?

Numbered answers:
1. Yes
2. Mary Nugent
3. with the intelligence.
4. yes
5. both mother and aunt had confidence in Mary Nugent's wisdom
6. Yes
7. 'Yes, Gerard can come, and so will Mr. Dutton,'
8. standing about half-way between Mrs. Egremont and her daughter
9. VI
10. Yes
11. Mrs. Egremont

Question:
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CHAPTER XXVIII

TWO OF THEM

When Tommy started impulsively on what proved to be his only Continental trip he had expected to join Mrs. Jerry and her stepdaughter at Bad-Platten. They had been there for a fortnight, and "the place is a dream," Mrs. Jerry had said in the letter pressing him to come; but it was at St. Gian that she met the diligence and told him to descend. Bad-Platten, she explained, was a horror.

Her fuller explanation was that she was becoming known there as the round lady.

"Now, am I as round as all that?" she said plaintively to Tommy.

"Mrs. Jerry," he replied, with emotion, "you must not ask me what I think of you." He always treated her with extraordinary respect and chivalry now, and it awed her.

She had looked too, too round because she was in the company of Lady Pippinworth. Everyone seemed to be too round or too large by the side of that gifted lady, who somehow never looked too thin. She knew her power. When there were women in the room whom she disliked she merely went and stood beside them. In the gyrations of the dance the onlooker would momentarily lose sight of her; she came and went like a blinking candle. Men could not dance with her without its being said that they were getting stout. There is nothing they dislike so much, yet they did dance with her. Tommy, having some slight reason, was particularly sensitive about references to his figure, yet it was Lady Pippinworth who had drawn him to Switzerland. What was her strange attraction?
1. What place is a dream?
2. Who had said this?
3. to whom?
4. Were they to meet up?
5. Did she change her mind?
6. why?
7. why did she think so?
8. Who was with Mrs. Jerry?
9. was she round also?
10. Was she very thin?
11. How did Tommy feel about Mrs. Jerry?
12. how did she feel about this?
13. What was her step daughter's name?
14. Where men attracted to her?
15. What happened to them when they danced with her?
16. Did they like this?
17. Who brought Tommy to Switzerland?
18. Was Tommy sensitve about his figure?
19. How did Mrs. James communicate with Tommy?
20. Did she ask Tommy about her roundness?

Numbered answers:
1. Bad-Platten
2. Mrs. Jerry
3. Tommy
4. yes
5. Yes
6. Bad-Platten was a horror.
7. She was becoming known as the round lady.
8. Her stepdaughter
9. No
10. She never looked to thin.
11. He always treated her with respect and chivalry
12. it awed her.
13. Lady Pippinworth.
14. Yes
15. People said they were getting stout.
16. yes.
17. Lady Pippenworth drew him there.
18. Yes
19. By letter.
20. Yes.

Question:
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Darren Wilson was just one of 53 officers in a small-town police department until his encounter with an 18-year-old August 9 on a street in Ferguson, Missouri.

"He was a gentle, quiet man," Police Chief Thomas Jackson said Friday, referring to Wilson. "He was a distinguished officer. He was a gentleman. ... He is, he has been, an excellent officer."

Authorities, citing death threats, had until Friday refused to release Wilson's name after he fatally shot Michael Brown.

A resident of the St. Louis area, Wilson, 28, has been staying at a secure location since the shooting.

It was not known whether Wilson -- an officer for six years, including four in Ferguson -- had been placed on modified assignment. Jackson told reporters the officer had faced no disciplinary action during his time on the job.

Wilson lives in a neighborhood of modest homes about 20 miles from Ferguson. Neighbors, who seemed angry and worried about the sudden attention on their quiet community, were reluctant to talk about Wilson. Several said the officer left his home days ago.

Brown was African-American; Wilson is white.

One of Wilson's friends, Jake Shepard, said he couldn't imagine the officer killing somebody.

"I can say -- without speaking to Darren, without even having heard his statements -- that, at that moment in time, he was scared for his life," Shepard said.

"I am 100% positive of that because I could never imagine him even in that situation -- taking someone's life, let alone taking someone's life with malicious intent. He's just the last person on Earth that you would think to do something like that. It's just shocking.
1. Who died?
2. What race was Brown?
3. How old was he?
4. How did Brown die?
5. Who shot him?
6. What profession was Wilson?
7. How long had he been an officer?
8. What police force was he currently an officer for?
9. How long had he been with them?
10. How old was he?
Numbered answers:
1. Michael Brown
2. African-American
3. unknown
4. shot
5. Darren Wilson
6. officer
7. six years
8. Ferguson
9. four years
10. 28