Q: CHAPTER II--A JACOBITE WAIF

'Sac now he's o'er the floods sae gray, And Lord Maxwell has ta'en his good-night.'

LORD MAXWELL'S _Good-night_.

Madame La Comtesse de Bourke was by no means a helpless fine lady. She had several times accompanied her husband on his expeditions, and had only not gone with him to Madrid because he did not expect to be long absent, and she sorely rued the separation.

She was very busy in her own room, superintending the packing, and assisting in it, when her own clever fingers were more effective than those of her maids. She was in her _robe de chambre_, a dark blue wrapper, embroidered with white, and put on more neatly than was always the case with French ladies in _deshabille_. The hoop, long stiff stays, rich brocade robe, and fabric of powdered hair were equally unsuitable to ease or exertion, and consequently were seldom assumed till late in the day, when the toilette was often made in public.

So Madame de Bourke's hair was simply rolled out of her way, and she appeared in her true colours, as a little brisk, bonny woman, with no actual beauty, but very expressive light gray eyes, furnished with intensely long black lashes, and a sweet, mobile, lively countenance.

Estelle was trying to amuse little Jacques, and prevent him from trotting between the boxes, putting all sorts of undesirable goods into them; and Ulysse had collected his toys, and was pleading earnestly that a headless wooden horse and a kite, twice as tall as himself, of Lanty's manufacture, might go with them.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who had Madame La comtesse de Bourke accompany on their missions?
2. What was she busy doing?
3. Was she considered a helpless lady?
4. What is it that Estelle was attempting to do?
5. and stopping him from doing what?
6. Who would Madame La comtesse de Bourked help with packing when they were having trouble?
7. Where was her husband at currently that she didn't go becuase he wasn't expected to have an long absence?
8. What was she considered unsuitable to ease or exertion?
9. What had Ulysses gathered?
10. Which ones was he begging to take with them?
11. What color were Madame de Bourke's eyes?
12. What was the manufacture/brand of the kite of Ulysse's?
A: 1. Her husband.
2. Superintending the packing.
3. No.
4. Trying to amuse little Jacques.
5. Trotting between the boxes.
6. Her maids.
7. Madrid.
8. Fabric of powdered hair.
9. His toys,
10. A headless wooden horse.
11. Light gray.
12. Lanty.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

My name is Toby. I'm eighty-three years old now. I once knew the greatest man in England. William Shakespeare was his name. I first met William near a big field of apple trees in the town named Stratford in October, 1579. He told me he was 15 years old. He was two years older than me. He had a sister, Joan, and two younger brothers, Gilbert and Richard. And the next year he had another brother, Edmund. After William's parents died, he and his sister lived with his mother's brother. I became his friend from that day until he died. We met nearly every day. We were friends for thirty years.

I once worked with him in the theatre, through the good times and the bad times. William was good at acting. He could make all kinds of people pleased. By 1592, he became very famous. He was always busy day and night. I don't know when he slept. He not only acted in plays, but also wrote his own plays. In his whole life, William wrote 37 plays in all. He was the best _ in England.

He wrote a play about love in 1595. It was Romeo and Juliet. He once used my name, Toby, in his play--Twelfth Night. In this play, Sir Toby Belch was a big fat man, who liked drinking too much and having a good time. Queen Elizabeth the First watched this play on the 6thof January, 1601. She liked it.

William Shakespeare is dead now, of course. He has been dead for more than thirty years. There's no singing, no dancing, no plays. It isn't like that in my young days. But I can still think--and remember when William and I were young, we had a good time in London, William and I...

1. What famous person did Toby know?
2. Where did they meet?
3. When?
4. Who was older?
5. By how much?
6. What did the older person do in 1595?
7. What was it called?
8. Who was overweight in it?
9. Which of his works had an overweight character?
10. What else did the character do?
11. Did anyone of note see this one?
12. Who?
13. Did she have a good time?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. William Shakespeare
2. Near a big field of apple trees in Stratford
3. October, 1579
4. William Shakespear
5. Two years
6. Wrote a play about love in 1595
7. Romeo and Juliet
8. unknown
9. Twelfth Night
10. Drinking too much and having a good time
11. Yes
12. Queen Elizabeth
13. Yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER VII. THE SIEGE OF FAENZA

The second campaign of the Romagna had opened for Cesare as easily as had the first. So far his conquest had been achieved by little more than a processional display of his armed legions. Like another Joshua, he reduced cities by the mere blare of his trumpets. At last, however, he was to receive a check. Where grown men had fled cravenly at his approach, it remained for a child to resist him at Faenza, as a woman had resisted him at Forli.

His progress north from Pesaro was of necessity slow. He paused, as we have seen, at Rimini, and he paused again, and for a rather longer spell, at Forli, so that it was not until the second week of November that Astorre Manfredi--the boy of sixteen who was to hold Faenza--caught in the distance the flash of arms and the banners with the bull device borne by the host which the Duke of Valentinois led against him.

At first it had been Astorre's intent to follow the examples set him by Malatesta and Sforza, and he had already gone so far as to remove his valuables to Ravenna, whither he, too, meant to seek refuge. But he was in better case than any of the tyrants so far deposed inasmuch as his family, which had ruled Faenza for two hundred years, had not provoked the hatred of its subjects, and these were now ready and willing to stand loyally by their young lord. But loyalty alone can do little, unless backed by the might of arms, against such a force as Cesare was prepared to hurl upon Faenza. This Astorre realized, and for his own and his subjects' sake was preparing to depart, when, to his undoing, support reached him from an unexpected quarter.

1. whose example did Astorre want to follow?
2. what had he done so far?
3. Did his family rule anywhere?
4. how many years?
5. did the people there like them?
6. what had opened for Cesare?
7. was it easy for him?
8. what did he display?
9. what reduced the cities?
10. was he ever resisted by a woman?
11. where?
12. who would resist him at Faenza?
13. was he young?
14. did Cesare see him as a child?
15. was his progress north quick?
16. where did he stop?
17. were Astorre's people willing to be with him?
18. but what was more important?
19. what month did Astorre see the Duke in the distance?
20. what did he want to do for his people's sake?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Malatesta and Sforza
2. Removed his valuables to Ravenna,
3. Faenza
4. 200 years
5. Yes
6. The second campaign of the Romagna
7. Yes
8. His armed legions
9. The blare of his trumpets.
10. Yes
11. Forli
12. Astorre Manfredi
13. 16
14. Yes
15. No
16. Rimini
17. Yes
18. The might of arms
19. November.
20. Depart