Q: CHAPTER XXX

Selingman had the air of one who has achieved a personal triumph as, with his arm in Maraton's, he led him towards the man whom they had come to visit.

"Behold!" he exclaimed. "It is a triumph, this! It is a thing to be remembered! I have brought you two together!"

Maraton's first impressions of Maxendorf were curiously mixed. He saw before him a tall, lanky figure of a man, dressed in sombre black, a man of dark complexion, with beardless face and tanned skin plentifully freckled. His hair and eyes were coal black. He held out his hand to Maraton, but the smile with which he had welcomed Selingman had passed from his lips.

"You are not the Maraton I expected some day to meet," he said, a little bluntly, "and yet I am glad to know you."

Selingman shrugged his shoulders.

"Max--my friend Max, do not be peevish," he begged. "I tell you that he is the Maraton of whom we have spoken together. I have heard him. I have been to Sheffield and listened. Don't be prejudiced, Max. Wait."

Maxendorf motioned them to seats and stood with his finger upon the bell.

"Yes," Selingman assented, "we will drink with you. You breathe of the Rhine, my friend. I see myself sitting with you in your terraced garden, drinking Moselle wine out of cut glasses. So it shall be. We will fall into the atmosphere. What a palace you live in, Max! Is it because you are an ambassador that they must house you so splendidly?"

Answer the following questions:
1. What two me walked arm in arm?
2. Who are they headed to meet?
3. What does he do for a living?
4. Did he live poorly?
5. What were Maraton's thoughts on him when they first met?
6. Was the man he met tall?
7. And his shape?
8. Did he have fair skin?
9. Did they shake hands?
10. What expression had passed from his face after he extended his hand?
11. Where would they take their drinks?
12. What would they drink out of?
13. What would they drink?
14. What type of home does Selingman say Max has?
A: 1. Selingman and Maraton'
2. Maxendorf
3. an ambassador
4. no
5. mixed
6. yes
7. lanky
8. dark complexion
9. unknown
10. smile
11. terraced garden
12. cut glasses
13. wine
14. a palace
Q: Hempstead, New York (CNN) -- President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off Tuesday in the second of their three debates, this one in a town hall-style setting in which they'll take questions from likely voters.

The stakes couldn't be higher: Obama must get his campaign back on track after a poor performance in the first debate that left Democrats demoralized and Obama's lead evaporating both in national polls and those in key battleground states. For Romney, who polls among voters showed won the first debate overwhelmingly, a second strong performance would boost his momentum going into the third debate next Monday and the final two weeks before Election Day.

Here are five things to watch for on Tuesday:

1. Connecting with the audience

Unlike the first presidential showdown in Denver two weeks ago, this debate will include a town hall audience of approximately 80 undecided voters, some of whom will get the chance to ask questions to the two candidates.

It's a completely different dynamic than the first face-off between the president and the Republican nominee.

"The challenge is that they've got to connect, not just with the people that are looking into the television and watching them, but to the people that are on the stage with them," the debate's moderator, CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley, said.

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"They have to keep those folks in mind. It's a much more intimate and up close adventure with voters. The candidate that makes a connection with the person asking the question is also making a better connection with the person back at home," added Crowley, who's also the host of CNN's "State of the Union."

Answer the following questions:
1. who is the debate's moderator?
2. who is she?
3. what else does she host?
4. is this the first debate?
5. then?
6. what kind of a setting will it be?
7. is the setting of the 2nd similar to the 1st?
8. who is in the debate?
9. what party is Romney?
10. who was better in the 1st?
11. how long before elections is the last one?
12. where was the first one?
13. how many people will be there for the 2nd?
14. what will the audience get to do?
15. how did the democrats feel after the 1st?
16. what day is this debate?
17. and what day is the third?
18. what is the challenge in this one?
19. do they connect just with the audience?
20. then who else?
A: 1. Candy Crowley
2. CNN Chief Political Correspondent
3. "State of the Union"
4. No
5. 2nd
6. Town hall
7. No
8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
9. Republican
10. Romney
11. Two weeks
12. Denver
13. About 80 undecided voters, other numbers unknown
14. Ask questions
15. Demoralized
16. Tuesday
17. Monday
18. To connect with voters
19. No
20. To the people watching on TV, and in person.
Q: Chapter 17: The North Coach.

Barnet was then, as now, a somewhat straggling place. Soon after entering it, the horseman turned off from the main road. His pursuers were but fifty yards behind him, and they kept him in sight until, after proceeding a quarter of a mile, he stopped at a small tavern, where he dismounted, and a boy took his horse and led it round by the side of the house.

"Run to earth!" Harry said exultantly. "He is not likely to move from there tonight."

"At any rate, he is safe for a couple of hours," Charlie said. "So we will go to our inn, and have a good meal. By that time it will be quite dark, and we will have a look at the place he has gone into; and if we can't learn anything, we must watch it by turns till midnight. We will arrange, at the inn, to hire a horse. One will be enough. He only caught a glimpse of us at that inn, and certainly would not recognize one of us, if he saw him alone. The other can walk."

"But which way, Charlie? He may go back again." "It is hardly likely he came here merely for the pleasure of stopping the night at that little tavern. I have no doubt he is bound for London. You shall take the horse, Harry, and watch until he starts, and then follow him, just managing to come up close to him as he gets into town. I will start early, and wait at the beginning of the houses, and it is hard if one or other of us does not manage to find out where he hides."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who said to run?
2. Who was he talking to?
3. Where did the second man say they would go?
4. And do what?
5. Who were they following?
6. How far were they away from him?
7. Where did he halt?
8. What happened to his steed?
9. What did he do with it?
10. What did Charlie suggest they had to do?
11. Until what time?
12. Would they both do that at once?
13. Would they both ride?
14. Where did Harry think the man was headed?
15. Who did he think should ride?
16. What did he want him to do?
17. And then what?
18. In the meantime, where would he be waiting?
19. What was the name of the location this happened?
A:
1. Harry
2. Charlie
3. to their inn
4. have a good meal
5. the horseman
6. fifty yards
7. a small tavern,
8. a boy took his horse
9. led it round by the side of the house.
10. have a look at the place he has gone into;
11. midnight
12. hire a horse.
13. no
14. London
15. Harry,
16. watch until he starts
17. follow him,
18. at the beginning of the houses,
19. Barnet