Q: CHAPTER XXVII. CYTHEREA'S BOWER.

There Citherea, goddesse was and quene, Honourid highly for her majeste, And eke her sonne, the mighty god I weene, Cupid the blinde, that for his dignite A M lovers worshipp on ther kne. There was I bid on pain of dethe to pere, By Mercury, the winged messengre.--CHAUCER.

By twelve o'clock on the ensuing day Mr. Belamour, with Eugene and Jumbo, was set down at a hotel near Whitehall, to secure apartments, while the Major went on to demand his daughter from Lady Belamour, taking with him Betty, whom he allowed to be a much better match for my Lady than he could be. Very little faith in his cousin Urania remained to him in the abstract, yet even now he could not be sure that she would not talk him over and hoodwink him in any actual encounter. Sir Amyas likewise accompanied him, both to gratify his own anxiety and to secure admission. The young man still looked pale and worn with restless anxiety; but he had, in spite of remonstrances, that morning discarded his sling, saying that he should return to his quarters. Let his Colonel do his worst then; he had still more liberty than if compelled to return to his mother's house.

Lady Belamour had, on her second marriage, forsaken her own old hereditary mansion in the Strand, where Sir Jovian had died, and which, she said, gave her the vapours. Mr. Wayland, whose wealth far exceeded her own, had purchased one of the new houses in Hanover Square, the fashionable quarter and very much admired; but the Major regretted the gloomy dignity of the separate enclosure and walled court of Delavie House, whereas the new one, in modern fashion, had only an area and steps between the front and the pavement.

1. Mr. Wayland
2. Three
3. By twelve o'clock
4. to secure apartments
5. his daughter
6. Jumbo
7. Mr. Belamour and Eugene
8. no
9. just one
10. Betty,
11. she was a much better match
12. yes
13. cousin
14. Major
15. to gratify his own anxiety
16. Sir Jovian
17. Whitehall
18. the Strand,
19. Hanover Square
20. the gloomy dignity

Numbered questions:
1. who was richer than Lady Belamour?
2. how many people were at a hotel?
3. what time were they there?
4. why were they there?
5. who did the major want?
6. please give the name of one of the people at the hotel
7. and the other two please
8. did the major go alone?
9. how many did he go with?
10. who?
11. why?
12. would you say Urania and Lady Balamour are one person?
13. how is she related to him?
14. who did Amyas go with?
15. why?
16. who died in a mansion?
17. the hotel was close to what?
18. where was the mansion that Jovian died?
19. where did Wayland buy a house?
20. what did the major not like about Delavie House?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the White House on Tuesday for a "failure of leadership" as President Barack Obama prepares to nominate his administration's fourth defense secretary.

The Texas Republican, who is considering a 2016 run in hopes of heading his own White House administration, called the unusually high turnover at the helm of the Defense Department emblematic of a White House that puts politics above U.S. national security.

"It seems what the administration is looking for is a defense secretary who will follow the orders of a political White House rather than focus on defending the national security interests of this country," Cruz said. "At a time when the threats are this grave, we shouldn't see turnover at the Defense Department than one has at a typical Burger King."

Cruz said he did not know Ashton Carter, the former No. 2 man at the Pentagon who is expected to be Obama's nominee to succeed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, but Cruz said he looks forward to learning more about Carter and his "good reputation."

But Cruz emphasized he was unsettled to see several potential picks pull their names out of the running to head the department, including former Pentagon official Michele Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed.

"It says something that so many people are saying, 'No, thank you, I don't want to serve in an administration that overrides the Defense Department, that treats the defense secretary as subservient to political lackeys in the White House," Cruz said.

Cruz made the remarks Tuesday at an event cosponsored by Concerned Veterans of America and the conservative publication The Weekly Standard during which he bore out his hawkish foreign policy and staked out positions starkly in contrast to Obama. 1. How many Secretaries of Defense has the President already nominated during this term?
numbered_answers: 1. three

CHAPTER XXIII HOPE

"Faith, Madame!" said Sir Andrew, seeing that Marguerite seemed desirous to call her surly host back again, "I think we'd better leave him alone. We shall not get anything more out of him, and we might arouse his suspicions. One never knows what spies may be lurking around these God-forsaken places."

"What care I?" she replied lightly, "now I know that my husband is safe, and that I shall see him almost directly!"

"Hush!" he said in genuine alarm, for she had talked quite loudly, in the fulness of her glee, "the very walls have ears in France, these days."

He rose quickly from the table, and walked round the bare, squalid room, listening attentively at the door, through which Brogard has just disappeared, and whence only muttered oaths and shuffling footsteps could be heard. He also ran up the rickety steps that led to the attic, to assure himself that there were no spies of Chauvelin's about the place.

"Are we alone, Monsieur, my lacquey?" said Marguerite, gaily, as the young man once more sat down beside her. "May we talk?"

"As cautiously as possible!" he entreated.

"Faith, man! but you wear a glum face! As for me, I could dance with joy! Surely there is no longer any cause for fear. Our boat is on the beach, the FOAM CREST not two miles out at sea, and my husband will be here, under this very roof, within the next half hour perhaps. Sure! there is naught to hinder us. Chauvelin and his gang have not yet arrived." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Is Sir Andrew married?
2. who is Magurerite?
3. Were the walls paperthin?
4. Who was speaking loudly?
5. Who wanted her to be more quieter?
6. Why did Magureite wanted to know if they were alone?
7. Who was sad?
8. what was the boat's name?
9. when is her husband arriving
10. Did chavelin and his gang come yet?
Answer:
1. unknown
2. unknown
3. the walls have ears
4. Marguerite did
5. Sir Andrew
6. she wanted to talk
7. unknown
8. FOAM CREST
9. within the next half hour perhaps
10. no