input: CHAPTER XXIII.

AGAIN AT CROKER'S HALL.

About three o'clock on that day Mr Whittlestaff came home. The pony-carriage had gone to meet him, but Mary remained purposely out of the way. She could not rush out to greet him, as she would have done had his absence been occasioned by any other cause. But he had no sooner taken his place in the library than he sent for her. He had been thinking about it all the way down from London, and had in some sort prepared his words. During the next half hour he did promise himself some pleasure, after that his life was to be altogether a blank to him. He would go. To that only had he made up his mind. He would tell Mary that she should be happy. He would make Mrs Baggett understand that for the sake of his property she must remain at Croker's Hall for some period to which he would decline to name an end. And then he would go.

"Well, Mary," he said, smiling, "so I have got back safe."

"Yes; I see you have got back."

"I saw a friend of yours when I was up in London."

"I have had a letter, you know, from Mr Gordon."

"He has written, has he? Then he has been very sudden."

"He said he had your leave to write."

"That is true. He had. I thought that, perhaps, he would have taken more time to think about it."

"I suppose he knew what he had to say," said Mary. And then she blushed, as though fearing that she had appeared to have been quite sure that her lover would not have been so dull. 1. what time did the man arrive?
2. what was his name?
3. where had he been?
4. was he met on his arrival?
5. did Mary greet him on his return home?
6. who did?
7. did he send for mary?
8. where was he when he did that?
9. did mary get a letter?
10. from who? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. About three o'clock
2. Mr Whittlestaff
3. in London
4. yes
5. no
6. The pony-carriage
7. yes
8. in the library
9. yes
10. Mr Gordon

input: (CNN) -- A line of angry protesters waving signs and wearing scows formed a ring around the front entrance of the Daily News' headquarters.

They took turns at the bullhorn accusing the paper of everything from libel to genocide. They didn't bring a list of demands; they weren't looking to negotiate. They had one goal: to shut the paper down forever.

"We're going to march until the walls come down," one shouted.

Employees who would normally head out the revolving door to one of the lunch trucks along Broad street developed a taste for cafeteria food that day.

Not Chuck Stone.

Stone, senior editor of the newspaper they had pledged to kill, walked out the front entrance and met their scows with a broad smile. Picketers committed to the complete destruction of the Daily News returned his smile or nodded in recognition as they passed him. A few even shook his hand.

I'll never forget that scene. It was, at once, improbable yet typical of a man who was as comfortable in the salons of power as he was in the embrace of the disadvantaged.

Chuck was the last man you'd pick out of a lineup of guys suspected of aiding and abetting dangerous felons. In his horn-rimmed glasses, hand-tied, silk bowties and graying crew cut, he looked like a grown-up version of the nerds that tough guys used to beat up to burnish their reps.

But fugitives who were wanted for vicious assaults and heinous crimes would call Chuck before they called their lawyers. In a town where some cops were known to administer curbside justice, surrendering to Chuck Stone was a way to keep from having their faces rearranged on the way to jail. At least 75 fugitives did just that over Stone's 19-year career. 1. What newspaper is the subject of the article?
2. What was happening at their main office building?
3. Did the protestors want to negotiate?
4. What did they want?
5. What did they accuse the Daily News of?
6. Who came out of the building to meet the protestors?
7. What was his job?
8. Did he look angry?
9. Did they protestors act aggressively towards him?
10. What did they do?
11. What did Chuck look like?
12. What was he wearing?
13. Who did Chuck often work with?
14. When did they call him?
15. Why?
16. How many did he help?
17. In how long a period of time?
18. Does Chuck look like he would do that kind of job?
19. Does the reporter think the scene was memorable?
20. How does he describe it? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. The Daily News
2. A protest
3. No
4. to shut the paper down forever
5. everything from libel to genocide
6. Chuck Stone
7. senior editor of the newspaper
8. No
9. No
10. They returned his smile, nodded in recognition or shook his hand.
11. a grown-up version of the nerds that tough guys used to beat up
12. horn-rimmed glasses and hand-tied, silk bowties
13. fugitives
14. before they called their lawyers
15. the cops were often violent and Chuck Stone could help
16. at least 75
17. 19 years
18. No
19. Yes
20. improbable yet typical

input: Around twenty years ago I was living in Seattle and going through hard times. I could not find a satisfying job and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Master's degree. To my shame I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and living with friends. I had been through five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not get the job. Later that afternoon, while doing my rounds through a quiet neighborhood I had an internal(inside)wave--like a scream --come up from deep inside me and I thought "Why has my life become so hard?"... Immediately after this internal scream I pulled the bus over to drop off a little girl and as she passed she handed me an earring saying I should keep it in case somebody looked for it. The earring was stamped with words "BE HAPPY". At first I got angry. Then it hit me. I had been putting all of my energies into what was wrong with my life rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a list of 50 things I was thankful to. At first _ was hard, then it got easier. One day I decided to up it to 75. That night there was a phone call for me, asking if I would do a one-day training for 200 hospital workers. I said yes and got the job. My day with the hospital workers went very well. I got a standing welcome and many more days of work. To this day I KNOW that it was because I changed my attitude to _ . By chance, the day after I found the earring the girl asked me if anyone had looked for it. I told her no and she said "I guess it was meant for you then." I spent the next year doing training workshops all around the Seattle area and then decided to risk everything and go back to Scotland where I had lived before. I closed my one man business and bought a plane ticket. One month later I met my wonderful English wife and best friend of 15 years now. We live in a small beautiful house in Scotland. "THE ONLY ATTITUDE IS GRATITUDE" has been my motto for years now and yes, it completely changed my life. 1. When did the person live in Seattle?
2. How was life there?
3. why?
4. Was he educated?
5. What did he do for work?
6. did he like it?
7. why not?
8. Was he applying for jobs?
9. any interviews?
10. did he get any of the jobs? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Around twenty years ago
2. tough
3. he could not find a decent job
4. He had a lot of experience and a Master's degree
5. he was driving a school bus
6. No
7. He believed it to be belittling
8. yes
9. five
10. No