Q: CHAPTER XX. A SAD HOME-COMING

Mr. Lowrie and Auctherlonnie, the Dumfries bo'sun, both of whom would have died for the captain, assured me of the truth of MacMuir's story, and shook their heads gravely as to the probable outcome. The peculiar water-mark of greatness that is woven into some men is often enough to set their own community bitter against them. Sandie, the plodding peasant, finds it a hard matter to forgive Jamie, who is taken from the plough next to his, and ends in Parliament. The affair of Mungo Maxwell, altered to suit, had already made its way on more than one vessel to Scotland. For according to Lowrie, there was scarce a man or woman in Kirkcudbrightshire who did not know that John Paul was master of the John, and (in their hearts) that he would be master of more in days to come. Human nature is such that they resented it, and cried out aloud against his cruelty.

On the voyage I had many sober thoughts of my own to occupy me of the terrible fate, from which, by Divine inter position, I had been rescued; of the home I had left behind. I was all that remained to Mr. Carvel in the world, and I was sure that he had given me up for dead. How had he sustained the shock? I saw him heavily mounting the stairs upon Scipicks arm when first the news was brought to him. Next Grafton would come hurrying in from Kent to Marlboro Street, disavowing all knowledge of the messenger from New York, and intent only upon comforting his father. And when I pictured my uncle soothing him to his face, and grinning behind his bed-curtains, my anger would scald me, and the realization of my helplessness bring tears of very bitterness.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was he happy on his ride home?
2. Had he escaped a bad outcome?
3. What did he credit for his survival?
4. Who did he assume thought he was deceased?
5. Who did he imagined he'd have to lean on when he learned about his death?
6. Where would that gentleman be coming from?
7. To where?
8. Where did the message arrive from?
9. Do images of his father's brother make him feel better?
10. Why not?
11. What does this feeling do to him?
A: 1. no
2. yes
3. Divine inter position
4. Mr. Carval
5. Grafton
6. Kent
7. Marlboro Street
8. New York
9. no
10. the realization of my helplessness
11. bring tears to him
Q: Oklahoma i/oklhom/ (Cherokee: Asgaya gigageyi / ; or translated (oalahoma), Pawnee: Uukuhuuwa, Cayuga: Gahnawiyogeh) is a state located in the South Central United States. Oklahoma is the 20th most extensive and the 28th most populous of the 50 United States. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people". It is also known informally by its nickname, The Sooner State, in reference to the non-Native settlers who staked their claims on the choicest pieces of land before the official opening date, and the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, which opened the door for white settlement in America's Indian Territory. The name was settled upon statehood, Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were merged and Indian was dropped from the name. On November 16, 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state to enter the union. Its residents are known as Oklahomans, or informally "Okies", and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.

Answer the following questions:
1. What state is The Sooner State?
2. What type of people is this a reference to?
3. Did they lay claim to the worst parts of the area first?
4. What part did they lay claim to?
5. Is this the only reason for the saying?
6. What else is it called that after?
7. Is the area located in the North?
8. Where is it located?
9. What type of language does the formal name come from?
10. What is the translation?
11. Is it the most populous area of the US?
12. What rank is it?
13. What about size?
14. Did it become official in 1908?
15. What year was it?
16. How many official areas of the US came before it?
17. What are those who live there called?
18. Is the most important urban center the largest?
19. What's that called?
A: 1. Oklahoma
2. the non-Native settler
3. no
4. the choicest pieces of land
5. no
6. America's Indian Territory
7. no
8. in the South Central United States
9. Choctaw
10. "red people"
11. no
12. 28th
13. it is the 20th most extensive
14. no
15. 1907
16. 45
17. Oklahomans
18. yes
19. Oklahoma City
Q: CHAPTER XX

Valentin de Bellegarde died, tranquilly, just as the cold, faint March dawn began to illumine the faces of the little knot of friends gathered about his bedside. An hour afterwards Newman left the inn and drove to Geneva; he was naturally unwilling to be present at the arrival of Madame de Bellegarde and her first-born. At Geneva, for the moment, he remained. He was like a man who has had a fall and wants to sit still and count his bruises. He instantly wrote to Madame de Cintre, relating to her the circumstances of her brother's death--with certain exceptions--and asking her what was the earliest moment at which he might hope that she would consent to see him. M. Ledoux had told him that he had reason to know that Valentin's will--Bellegarde had a great deal of elegant personal property to dispose of--contained a request that he should be buried near his father in the church-yard of Fleurieres, and Newman intended that the state of his own relations with the family should not deprive him of the satisfaction of helping to pay the last earthly honors to the best fellow in the world. He reflected that Valentin's friendship was older than Urbain's enmity, and that at a funeral it was easy to escape notice. Madame de Cintre's answer to his letter enabled him to time his arrival at Fleurieres. This answer was very brief; it ran as follows:--

"I thank you for your letter, and for your being with Valentin. It is a most inexpressible sorrow to me that I was not. To see you will be nothing but a distress to me; there is no need, therefore, to wait for what you call brighter days. It is all one now, and I shall have no brighter days. Come when you please; only notify me first. My brother is to be buried here on Friday, and my family is to remain here. C. de C."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was similar to a man who fell?
2. Who did he write to?
3. Who was Valentin de Bellegarde's sister?
4. What did the letter include?
5. Anything else?
6. Come for what?
7. When did Valentin die?
8. Was it a tranquil death?
9. Who was there?
10. Where did Newman go?
11. When?
12. Who did he want to avoid?
13. What did Valentin need to get rid of?
14. Where was he to be buried?
15. Where?
16. When did his sister say the burial would be?
17. Would seeing Newman be a delight for her?
18. What did she say about it?
19. What did she say about brighter days?
20. Should he notify her of his arrival?
A:
1. Newman
2. Madame de Cintre
3. Madame de Cintre
4. the circumstances of her brother's death
5. also asked her when she could come
6. to see him
7. in March
8. yes
9. friends
10. to Geneva
11. An hour after Valentin died
12. Madame de Bellegarde and her first-born
13. personal property
14. near his father
15. the church-yard of Fleurieres
16. Friday
17. no
18. that it will be nothing but a distress
19. that there is no need to wait for brighter days
20. yes