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Chapter XXX

The Man Who Dusted His Boots With His Handkerchief

When Florence Burton had written three letters to Harry without receiving a word in reply to either of them, she began to be seriously unhappy. The last of these letters, received by him after the scene described in the last chapter, he had been afraid to read. It still remained unopened in his pocket. But Florence, though she was unhappy, was not even yet jealous. Her fears did not lie in that direction, nor had she naturally any tendency to such uneasiness. He was ill, she thought; or if not ill in health, then ill at ease. Some trouble afflicted him of which he could not bring himself to tell her the facts, and as she thought of this she remembered her own stubbornness on the subject of their marriage, and blamed herself in that she was not now with him, to comfort him. If such comfort would avail him anything now, she would be stubborn no longer. When the third letter brought no reply she wrote to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Burton, confessing her uneasiness, and begging for comfort. Surely Cecilia could not but see him occasionally--or at any rate have the power of seeing him. Or Theodore might do so--as, of course, he would be at the office. If anything ailed him would Cecilia tell her all the truth? But Cecilia, when she began to fear that something did ail him, did not find it very easy to tell Florence all the truth.
1. Who was writing letters?
2. Who had a problem they didn't want to tell anyone about?
3. What was their relationship?
4. Who was at the office?
5. Who else did the wife write letters to?
6. Who saw the husband sometimes?
7. How many letters did the wife send?
8. Did he read all of them?
9. Was she afraid he was seeing someone else?
10. What did she resolve to change?
11. What did she want to do for him?
12. Did Cecilia have any difficulties?
13. What?
14. How many people are mentioned in the text?

Numbered answers:
1. Florence Burton.
2. Harry.
3. Married.
4. Theodore
5. Mrs. Burton.
6. Cecilia.
7. Florence Burton had written three letters
8. No.
9. No.
10. ,She would be stubborn no longer.
11. Comfort him.
12. Yes.
13. She did not find it very easy to tell Florence all the truth.
14. Five.

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CHAPTER XLVIII - RUBY A PRISONER

Ruby had run away from her lover in great dudgeon after the dance at the Music Hall, and had declared that she never wanted to see him again. But when reflection came with the morning her misery was stronger than her wrath. What would life be to her now without her lover? When she escaped from her grandfather's house she certainly had not intended to become nurse and assistant maid-of-all-work at a London lodging-house. The daily toil she could endure, and the hard life, as long as she was supported by the prospect of some coming delight. A dance with Felix at the Music Hall, though it were three days distant from her, would so occupy her mind that she could wash and dress all the children without complaint. Mrs Pipkin was forced to own to herself that Ruby did earn her bread. But when she had parted with her lover almost on an understanding that they were never to meet again, things were very different with her. And perhaps she had been wrong. A gentleman like Sir Felix did not of course like to be told about marriage. If she gave him another chance, perhaps he would speak. At any rate she could not live without another dance. And so she wrote him a letter.

Ruby was glib enough with her pen, though what she wrote will hardly bear repeating. She underscored all her loves to him. She underscored the expression of her regret if she had vexed him. She did not want to hurry a gentleman. But she did want to have another dance at the Music Hall. Would he be there next Saturday? Sir Felix sent her a very short reply to say that he would be at the Music Hall on the Tuesday. As at this time he proposed to leave London on the Wednesday on his way to New York, he was proposing to devote his very last night to the companionship of Ruby Ruggles.
1. Who did Ruby leave?
2. How was her writing?
3. Did she express her affection in that?
4. to whom?
5. Did she express regret in that too?
6. Did she want to hurry him up?
7. Where?
8. Did she want to dance more?
9. What was her full name?
10. Initially did she want to see him again?
11. Did she change her mind afterwards?
12. What thought made her do that?
13. What else?
14. What place she escaped before?
15. After that what she became?
16. and?
17. Where?
18. Did she find the work kind of hard?
19. But was she hopeful?
20. At the end would her lover meet her again?

Numbered answers:
1. her lover
2. glib enough
3. yes
4. to her lover
5. yes
6. no
7. at the Music Hall
8. yes
9. Ruby Ruggles
10. no
11. yes
12. mostly her misery
13. she thought she had been wrong
14. her grandfather's house
15. nurse
16. assistant maid-of-all-work
17. London lodging-house
18. yes
19. yes
20. yes

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Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) is an on-line database that offers free access to a large and growing collection of biomedical research literature. It was known as UK PubMed Central until 1 November 2012. The Europe PMC project was originally launched in 2007 as the first 'mirror' site to PMC, which aims to provide international preservation of the open and free-access biomedical and life sciences literature. It forms part of a network of PMC International (PMCI) repositories that includes PubMed Central Canada. Europe PMC is not an exact "mirror" of the PMC database but has developed some different features. On February 15, 2013, "CiteXplore" was subsumed under Europe PubMed Central.

The resource is managed and developed by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), on behalf of an alliance of 27 biomedical and life sciences research funders, led by the Wellcome Trust. The Europe PMC funders group requires that articles describing the results of biomedical and life sciences research they have supported be made freely available in Europe PMC within 6 months of publication to maximise the impact of the work that they fund.

Europe PMC provides free access to more than 3.7 million full-text biomedical and life sciences research articles and over 31 million citations. Europe PMC contains some citation information and includes text-mining based marked up text that links to external molecular and medical datasets. The Grant Lookup facility allows users to search for information on over 56,700 grants awarded by the Europe PMC funders.
1. Is it free to access Europe PMC?
2. How many articles does it have?
3. How many citations?
4. What kind of Lookup facility does it have?
5. So how many grants can you look for?
6. Who puts up the money for them?
7. Is the database online?
8. What kind of literature does in contain?
9. What name was it known by until 2012?
10. What year was it first started?
11. As what?
Numbered answers:
1. Yes
2. more than 3.7 million
3. over 31 million
4. grant
5. over 56,700 grants
6. Europe PMC funders.
7. Yes
8. biomedical research
9. UK PubMed Central
10. 2007
11. the first 'mirror' site to PMC