CHAPTER XLVIII

All the evening Melbury had been coming to his door, saying, "I wonder where in the world that girl is! Never in all my born days did I know her bide out like this! She surely said she was going into the garden to get some parsley."

Melbury searched the garden, the parsley-bed, and the orchard, but could find no trace of her, and then he made inquiries at the cottages of such of his workmen as had not gone to bed, avoiding Tangs's because he knew the young people were to rise early to leave. In these inquiries one of the men's wives somewhat incautiously let out the fact that she had heard a scream in the wood, though from which direction she could not say.

This set Melbury's fears on end. He told the men to light lanterns, and headed by himself they started, Creedle following at the last moment with quite a burden of grapnels and ropes, which he could not be persuaded to leave behind, and the company being joined by the hollow-turner and the man who kept the cider-house as they went along.

They explored the precincts of the village, and in a short time lighted upon the man-trap. Its discovery simply added an item of fact without helping their conjectures; but Melbury's indefinite alarm was greatly increased when, holding a candle to the ground, he saw in the teeth of the instrument some frayings from Grace's clothing. No intelligence of any kind was gained till they met a woodman of Delborough, who said that he had seen a lady answering to the description her father gave of Grace, walking through the wood on a gentleman's arm in the direction of Sherton. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was being looked for?
2. Who was the main person looking for her?
3. Were other folks assisting?
4. Where did they finally come across some evidence?
5. Did they meet anyone who had noticed her?
6. Where was he from?
7. Who did he see her with?
8. Where were they heading?
9. What time of day did her dad first start wondering about her whereabouts?
10. Was it usual for her to be out so late?
11. Where did he think she was?
12. How many places did he look before asking the gentlemen's spouses?
13. What place did he stay away from?
14. Why?
15. Did he come across any information?
16. From whom?
17. What did she tell him?
18. Did this make the dad feel better?
19. Who was carrying a bunch of heavy stuff?
20. Was it against his will?
Answer: 1. Grace
2. Melbury
3. yes
4. the precincts of the village
5. yes
6. Delborough
7. a gentleman
8. Sheraton
9. Evening
10. no
11. the garden
12. Two
13. Tangs's
14. people were sleeping
15. yes
16. one of the men's wives
17. she had heard a scream
18. no
19. Creedle
20. no

I was shopping in the supermarket when I heard a young voice."Mom,come here!There's this lady here my size!" The mother rushed to her son;then she turned to me to say sorry to me. I smiled and told her,"It's OK."Then I talked to the boy,"Hi,I'm Dory Kramer. How are you?" He studied me from head to toe,and asked,"Are you a little mommy?" "Yes,I have a son," I answered. "Why are you so little?"he asked. "It's the way I was born," I said."Some people are little. Some are tall. I'm just not going to grow any bigger."After I answered his other questions,I shook the boy's hand and left. My life as a little person is filled with stories like that. I enjoy talking to children and explaining why I look different from their parents. It takes only one glance( ) to see I'm different. I stand three feet nine inches tall(="1.14" metres).I was born adwarf.In spite of this,I did all the things other kids did when I was growing up. I didn't realize how short I was until I started school. Some kids called me names .Then I knew. I began to hate the first day of school each year. But I learned to smile and face the fact that I was going to be noticed my whole life.What I lacked in height,I made up for in personality.When people are rude,I remind myself,"Look what else I have-a great family,nice friends." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Is the author of this story a little person?
2. What's her name?
3. Who does she talk with in the story?
4. Does she enjoy talking with him?
5. How tall is she?
6. What is that in metres?
7. What's another term for someone like her?
8. When did she realize that she was short?
9. Where does her conversation with the little boy take place?
10. Does she have a child?
11. A son or a daughter?
12. What reason does she give the boy for why she is short?
13. When she was growing up did her shortness keep her from doing what the other kids did?
14. Did she used to hate the start of school?
15. What did she learn to do about it?
16. Anything else?
17. She made up for lack of height with what?
18. Are people sometimes rude?
19. What's one thing she has that she reminds herself about?
20. What else does she have?
Answer: 1. yes
2. Dory Kramer
3. a boy
4. yes
5. three feet nine inches
6. 1.14 metres
7. dwarf
8. when she started school
9. in the supermarket
10. yes
11. son
12. It's the way she was born
13. no
14. yes
15. smile
16. face facts
17. personality
18. yes
19. she has a great family
20. nice friends

C# (pronounced as "see sharp") is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed by Microsoft within its .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270:2006). C# is one of the programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure.

C# is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 7.0, which was released in 2017 along with Visual Studio 2017.

The ECMA standard lists these design goals for C#:

During the development of the .NET Framework, the class libraries were originally written using a managed code compiler system called "Simple Managed C" (SMC). In January 1999, Anders Hejlsberg formed a team to build a new language at the time called Cool, which stood for "C-like Object Oriented Language". Microsoft had considered keeping the name "Cool" as the final name of the language, but chose not to do so for trademark reasons. By the time the .NET project was publicly announced at the July 2000 Professional Developers Conference, the language had been renamed C#, and the class libraries and ASP.NET runtime had been ported to C#. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is C#?
2. How is it pronounced?
3. What company is developed it?
4. Who approved it?
5. What was it designed for?
6. What is the newest version of it?
7. What was it released with?
8. What did Anders Hejlsberg do?
9. What did they call it at that time?
10. What did that stand for?
11. What year was that?
12. Why did they change the name?
13. When did they announce it to the public?
14. Where at?
15. Did they have a new name by then?
Answer:
1. A multi-paradigm programming language.
2. See sharp.
3. Microsoft.
4. Ecma.
5. The Common Language Infrastructure.
6. C# 7.0.
7. Visual Studio 2017.
8. Formed a team to build a new language.
9. Cool.
10. "C-like Object Oriented Language".
11. 1999.
12. Trademark reasons.
13. July 2000.
14. The Professional Developers Conference.
15. Yes.