CHAPTER 7

Mr and Mrs Squeers at Home

Mr Squeers, being safely landed, left Nicholas and the boys standing with the luggage in the road, to amuse themselves by looking at the coach as it changed horses, while he ran into the tavern and went through the leg-stretching process at the bar. After some minutes, he returned, with his legs thoroughly stretched, if the hue of his nose and a short hiccup afforded any criterion; and at the same time there came out of the yard a rusty pony-chaise, and a cart, driven by two labouring men.

'Put the boys and the boxes into the cart,' said Squeers, rubbing his hands; 'and this young man and me will go on in the chaise. Get in, Nickleby.'

Nicholas obeyed. Mr. Squeers with some difficulty inducing the pony to obey also, they started off, leaving the cart-load of infant misery to follow at leisure.

'Are you cold, Nickleby?' inquired Squeers, after they had travelled some distance in silence.

'Rather, sir, I must say.'

'Well, I don't find fault with that,' said Squeers; 'it's a long journey this weather.'

'Is it much farther to Dotheboys Hall, sir?' asked Nicholas.

'About three mile from here,' replied Squeers. 'But you needn't call it a Hall down here.'

Nicholas coughed, as if he would like to know why.

'The fact is, it ain't a Hall,' observed Squeers drily.

'Oh, indeed!' said Nicholas, whom this piece of intelligence much astonished.

'No,' replied Squeers. 'We call it a Hall up in London, because it sounds better, but they don't know it by that name in these parts. A man may call his house an island if he likes; there's no act of Parliament against that, I believe?' What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who had taken a flight?
2. Where were the young men?
3. Did they have anything with them?
4. Which was?
5. Where had the man gone?
6. Was he gone long?
7. When did he return?
8. Would they be traveling by car that day?
9. How would they travel?
10. Was there one driver?
11. How many?
12. Who sat on the chaise?
13. And the boys went where?
14. Was anyone chilled?
15. Whom?
16. Was it to be a short trip?
17. How long?
18. To reach where?
19. What did Squeers think about that?
20. Where do they call it a hall?
Answer: 1. Mr Squeers
2. in the road
3. yes
4. luggage
5. the tavern
6. no
7. After some minutes
8. no
9. pony-chaise
10. no
11. Two
12. Nickleby and Mr. Squeers
13. the cart
14. yes
15. Nickleby
16. no
17. About three miles when mentioned
18. Dotheboys Hall,
19. he needn't call it a Hall
20. London

CHAPTER 57. Another Wedding

Mr Sownds the beadle, and Mrs Miff the pew-opener, are early at their posts in the fine church where Mr Dombey was married. A yellow-faced old gentleman from India, is going to take unto himself a young wife this morning, and six carriages full of company are expected, and Mrs Miff has been informed that the yellow-faced old gentleman could pave the road to church with diamonds and hardly miss them. The nuptial benediction is to be a superior one, proceeding from a very reverend, a dean, and the lady is to be given away, as an extraordinary present, by somebody who comes express from the Horse Guards.

Mrs Miff is more intolerant of common people this morning, than she generally is; and she his always strong opinions on that subject, for it is associated with free sittings. Mrs Miff is not a student of political economy (she thinks the science is connected with dissenters; 'Baptists or Wesleyans, or some o' them,' she says), but she can never understand what business your common folks have to be married. 'Drat 'em,' says Mrs Miff 'you read the same things over 'em' and instead of sovereigns get sixpences!'

Mr Sownds the beadle is more liberal than Mrs Miff--but then he is not a pew-opener. 'It must be done, Ma'am,' he says. 'We must marry 'em. We must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armies. We must marry 'em, Ma'am,' says Mr Sownds, 'and keep the country going.' What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where is everyone?
2. Are they late?
3. What is one of their jobs?
4. Who's is that?
5. And another one?
6. What is his?
7. What is happening that day?
8. Where is the man from?
9. Is he young?
10. What about the lady?
11. Is this a fancy wedding?
12. Why?
13. Is the man poor?
14. What annoys the pew lady?
15. A little bit?
16. What does it make her think of?
17. Does she read scientific things?
18. Is she understanding of poor people getting married?
19. What do you you get from them?
20. Does the other man feel the same?
Answer: 1. church
2. No.
3. pew-opener
4. Mrs Miff
5. Mr Sownds
6. beadle
7. A marriage
8. India
9. No.
10. Yes.
11. YEs.
12. The nuptial benediction is to be a superior one
13. No.
14. common people
15. No.
16. free sittings
17. Yes.
18. No.
19. sixpences
20. No.

Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox made an impassioned plea to the jury Wednesday as the high-profile case neared its conclusion. Knox is the American student accused of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, at the villa they shared in Italy.

"We suffer at the memory of Meredith. But we look at the future of Amanda," Luciano Ghirga said in his defense summation.

"Meredith was my friend," he quoted Knox as saying, rejecting the notion that she hated her roommate, who was fatally stabbed in November 2007.

Prosecutors say Kercher died during a twisted sex game in which Knox taunted Kercher, and two men -- Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 26, and acquaintance Rudy Guede -- sexually assaulted her.

The prosecution says a knife found in Sollecito's house had Knox's DNA on the handle and Kercher's on the blade, among other pieces of evidence.

But Ghirga rejected the accusations against Knox on Wednesday.

He attacked the way police and prosecutors had treated the defendant, giving them a symbolic "red card" -- a referee's sign in soccer that a player is being expelled from the game for breaking the rules.

Ghirga concluded an emotional oration -- sobbing as he came to the end -- by asking the judge and jury to acquit Knox, because her mother asked him to request it, because her family asked it.

Knox's father, Curt, said Wednesday she had been a victim of "character assassination," and expressed hope she would be found not guilty.

Members of Kercher's family have declined repeated CNN requests for comment on the case. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where is this article written at?
2. Who is the article referring to?
3. Who killed her?
4. Where is Knox from?
5. Where were they when the alleged death occur?
6. Were they staying in a hostel?
7. Was there anyone else allegedly there?
8. Any males?
9. How many?
10. Were there any weapons involved?
11. Was it at the crime scene?
12. Where was it?
Answer:
1. Italy
2. Meredith
3. Amanda Knox
4. America
5. Italy
6. a villa
7. yes
8. yes
9. two
10. a knife
11. no
12. Sollecito's house