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CHAPTER XIII

SHOCKS ALL ROUND

Billie had been standing near the wall, inspecting a portrait of the late Mr. Josiah Appleby, of which the kindest thing one can say is that one hopes it did not do him justice. She now shrank back against this wall, as if she were trying to get through it. The edge of the portrait's frame tilted her hat out of the straight, but in this supreme moment she did not even notice it.

"Er--how do you do?" she said.

If she had not been an exceedingly pretty girl, one would have said that she spoke squeakily. The fighting spirit of the Bennetts, though it was considerable fighting spirit, had not risen to this emergency. It had ebbed out of her, leaving in its place a cold panic. She had seen this sort of thing in the movies--there was one series of pictures, "The Dangers of Diana," where something of the kind had happened to the heroine in every reel--but she had not anticipated that it would ever happen to her; and consequently she had not thought out any plan for coping with such a situation. A grave error. In this world one should be prepared for everything, or where is one?

"I've brought the revolver," said Mr. Peters.

"So--so I see!" said Billie.

Mr. Peters nursed the weapon affectionately in his hand. He was rather a shy man with women as a rule, but what Sam had told him about her being interested in his revolver had made his heart warm to this girl.
1. What did Billie not notice?
2. by what?
3. Where was the frame?
4. was there a picture in the frame?
5. whos?
6. who had a fighting spirit?
7. how was Billie feeling?
8. what was she thinking about?
9. what thing?
10. did it have a name?
11. which was?
12. did she feel this was happening to her?
13. what exactly?
14. was she prepared?
15. Who was she speaking with?
16. what did he bring with him?
17. did Billie know he was going to bring it?
18. did she hask about it?
19. who told Mr. Peters she was interested in it?
20. how did Mr. Peters feel?

Numbered answers:
1. her hat was tilted
2. the portrait's frame
3. the wall
4. yes
5. Mr. Josiah Appleby,
6. the Bennetts
7. panic
8. that she had seen this sort of thing before
9. in one series of pictures
10. yes
11. The Dangers of Diana
12. yes
13. something of the kind had happened to the heroine in every reel
14. no
15. Mr. Peters
16. revolver,
17. yes
18. no
19. sam
20. made his heart warm

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(CNN) -- The Idaho man who slapped a crying 19-month-old boy on a Delta flight in February was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison, the man's lawyer said.

Joe Rickey Hundley pleaded guilty to assault in federal court in October.

Hundley's attorney, Marcia Shein, said Hundley will report to a yet-to-be determined prison but didn't say what the date would be.

She said she respects the judge's ruling but called the sentence "disproportionate" to the crime and added that it was two months longer than what prosecutors had recommended.

In February, Hundley was seated next to Jessica Bennett and her 19-month-old son in row 28 when Delta flight 721 from Minneapolis, Minnestoa, began its descent into Atlanta .

When the baby began to cry, Hundley allegedly told Bennett to "shut that (N-word) baby up," according to an FBI affidavit.

"(He) then turned around and slapped (the child) in the face with an open hand, which caused (him) to scream even louder," the affidavit continued. The boy suffered a scratch below his right eye.

Shein said in a February statement that her client was in distress and grieving during the flight after learning the day before that his son was in a coma, after overdosing on insulin.

Hundley was headed to Atlanta to decide whether or not to take his son -- who died the day after the flight -- off life support.

Shein said Hundley "had paid a terrible price for his hurtful words but asks only that people understand that he was not doing well that night and spoke hurtful words he would have not otherwise have said."
1. Why was the man in trouble?
2. What was the man's name?
3. Where was he from?
4. Who was representing him?
5. In what month did the incident occur?
6. Who was the child's mother?
7. What row were they sitting in?
8. On what airline?
9. Where had they flown from?
10. Where were they landing?
11. Why did he slap the child?
12. What did he plead?
13. When did he enter the plea?
14. Did he receive a sentence?
15. When?
16. What was the sentence?
17. Did the baby have any injuries?
18. What was it?
19. Where?
20. Does Hundley have kids?

Numbered answers:
1. he slapped a crying 19-month-old boy
2. Joe Rickey Hundley
3. Idaho
4. Marcia Shein
5. in February
6. Jessica Bennett
7. 28
8. Delta
9. Minneapolis, Minnestoa
10. Atlanta
11. they were crying
12. guilty
13. in October
14. yes
15. October
16. eight months in prison
17. yes
18. a scratch
19. below his right eye
20. Yes

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Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to get her shoes so she could escape a shelling attack, her paper reported Sunday.

Colvin, a New York native, worked for London's The Sunday Times.

As is the custom in Syria, she took off her shoes upon entering a building that was serving as a makeshift press center. She was on the ground floor when rockets hit the upper floors, The Sunday Times reported.

Thinking then that the building was a target, Colvin rushed to retrieve her shoes in the hall. A rocket landed just a few yards away, the paper said.

Colvin, 56, was the only British newspaper journalist inside the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr. She was killed alongside French journalist Remi Ochlik in the attack Wednesday.

Her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said aid workers have been trying for days to remove her daughter's body from the war-ravaged country.

She added that she believes her daughter was deliberately targeted by Syrian government forces.

"They were first in another house, and the top floors there were blown off," she said. "First (the Syrian forces) rocketed the front of the building," she said, fueling suspicion that the attack against a makeshift media center where Colvin and Ochlik were holed up was no accident.

The Syrian government was not immediately available for comment.

The day before she was killed, Colvin had given media interviews to networks like ITN and CNN about the ongoing clashes in Homs, and about a child who was killed in the city.
1. Who's this story about?
2. What happened to her last week?
3. What was her profession?
4. Where was she killed?
5. What was she doing when she died?
Numbered answers:
1. Marie Colvin
2. she was killed
3. correspondent
4. Syria
5. retrieving her shoes