Q: CHAPTER XVI

Mr. William Hayter, in the solitude of his chambers at the Milan Court, was a very altered personage. He extended no welcoming salutation to his midnight visitor but simply motioned him to a chair.

"Well," he began, "is your task finished that you are in London?"

"My task," Lessingham replied, "might just as well never have been entered upon. The man you sent me to watch is nothing but an ordinary sport-loving Englishman."

"Really! You have lived as his neighbour for nearly a month, and that is your impression of him?"

"It is," Lessingham assented. "He has been away sea-fishing, half the time, but I have searched his house thoroughly."

"Searched his papers, eh?"

"Every one I could find, and hated the job. There are a good many charts of the coast, but they are all for the use of the fishermen."

"Wonderful!" Hayter scoffed. "My young friend, you may yet find distinction in some other walk of life. Our secret service, I fancy, will very soon be able to dispense with your energies."

"And I with your secret service," Lessingham agreed heartily. "I dare say there may be some branches of it in which existence is tolerable. That, however, does not apply to the task upon which I have been engaged."

"You have been completely duped," Hayter told him calmly, "and the information you have sent us is valueless. Sir Henry Cranston, instead of being the type of man whom you have described, is one of the greatest experts upon coast defense and mine-laying, in the English Admiralty."

Answer the following questions:
1. What time is it?
2. Who is visiting?
3. Who is being visited?
4. Where are they?
5. Which is where?
6. Was it a warm welcome?
7. Who was being watched?
8. For how long?
9. Is he really good at anything?
10. Anything else?
11. Like what?
12. Did the watcher think this about him?
13. Where did he seem to spend a bunch of his time?
14. Doing what?
15. Was his home looked through?
16. What was found?
17. Of what?
A: 1. midnight
2. Lessingham
3. William Hayter
4. Hayter's chambers
5. the Milan Court,
6. No
7. Sir Henry Cranston
8. nearly a month
9. coast defense
10. Yes
11. mine-laying,
12. he is an ordinary sport-loving Englishman
13. at sea
14. fishing
15. Yes
16. charts
17. the coast
Q: Frederic Francois Chopin (/opn/; French pronunciation: [fe.de.ik f.swa .p]; 22 February or 1 March 1810 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,[n 1] was a Polish and French (by citizenship and birth of father) composer and a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.

At the age of 21 he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 18 years of his life, he gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and teaching piano, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his musical contemporaries, including Robert Schumann. In 1835 he obtained French citizenship. After a failed engagement to Maria Wodzinska, from 1837 to 1847 he maintained an often troubled relationship with the French writer George Sand. A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand in 183839 was one of his most productive periods of composition. In his last years, he was financially supported by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1848. Through most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health. He died in Paris in 1849, probably of tuberculosis.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did the person of focus do?
2. How many performances did he give after moving to Paris?
3. At what age did he leave Poland?
4. Where did he prefer to perform?
5. What happened soon after his leaving Poland?
6. Was he ever ready to wed anyone?
7. Who?
8. Was he with anyone after her?
9. For how long?
10. How'd they get along?
11. Who supported him monetarily at the end?
12. What was his probable cause of death?
13. Was he a healthy person?
A: 1. composer and pianist
2. 30 public ones
3. 20
4. the salon
5. the November 1830 Uprising
6. no
7. Maria Wodzinska
8. yes
9. from 1837 to 1847
10. often troubled relationship
11. Jane Stirling
12. tuberculosis
13. no
Q: It has taken 90 years since she was born in a poor house in County Limerick for a woman considered America's oldest illegal immigrant to get her Irish passport.It will be a few more months before Josephine Stout will finally be declared a US citizen, entitling(...) her to a pension and other benefits.

Despite having lived in America for most of her life since she arrived in 1923, the great-grandmother was declared an undocumented alien in 1999, when she tried to claim state aid to help raise her seven grandchildren, who were left orphaned when her daughter was killed by a robber over$20.

Even though she has never considered herself Irish, noting "I don't even have an accent," she didn't officially exist as an American when officials in Chicago insisted that she prove her citizenship in order to qualify for benefits. But she had no birth certificate or passport when she arrived on an immigrant ship from Ireland from Ireland with her parents, who had 12 other children.

She never gave the matter much thought until 1999, when she was in her late 70s and needed assistance to raise her grandchildren. For 12 years, Mrs. Stout managed to support the family by doing various jobs. But her life was hard and marked by tragedy. Her husband died in 1996, and her son Thomas died in a car accident with his girlfriend in 1985. Her only surviving child, Rosemary, died of cancer in 2009.

A Catholic charity referred her case to Chicago Irish Immigrant Support(CIIS), which alerted the Irish Consulate . Through them, they tracked down her birth certificate, the website irishcentral.com reported. The document, in turn, allowed her to receive her Irish passport, and eventually her American green card in September 2011, which was dated back to November 1, 1923.

Answer the following questions:
1. When did someone arrive in the USA?
2. Who was it?
3. Was her grandma legal?
4. What about her great-grandma?
5. How many kids was her great-grandma raising?
6. Was she their mother?
7. Where was she?
8. How?
9. Who helped move her issue forward?
10. What did they do?
11. Where they able to find anything?
12. What?
13. What did that allow her to do?
14. How long did it ultimately take for that to happen?
15. Where was she born?
16. Was she wealthy?
17. When will she become legal in the USA?
18. She she consider herself from her homeland?
19. What started the investigation?
20. How did she come to the USA?
A:
1. 1923
2. Josephine Stout
3. unknown
4. no
5. seven
6. no
7. dead
8. she was killed
9. A Catholic charity
10. referred her case to Chicago Irish Immigrant Support(CIIS)
11. yes
12. her birth certificate
13. to receive her Irish passport
14. 90 years
15. in County Limerick
16. no
17. a few more months
18. no
19. when she tried to claim state aid
20. on an immigrant ship