Q: CHAPTER XXVIII

FIRE AND HAIL

On the morning after her return from Winnipeg, Beatrice sat in her father's study, with Mowbray facing her across the table. He looked thoughtful, but not so shocked and indignant as she had expected.

"So you are determined to throw Harding over!"

"Yes," Beatrice said in a strained voice. "It seems impossible to do anything else."

"A broken engagement's a serious matter; we Mowbrays keep our word. I hope you're quite sure of your ground."

"What I heard left no room for doubt."

"Did you hear the man's defense?"

"I refused to listen," said Beatrice coldly. "That he should try to excuse himself only made it worse."

"I'm not sure that's very logical. I'll confess that Harding and I seldom agree, but one must be fair."

"Does that mean that one ought to be lenient?" Beatrice asked with an angry sparkle in her eyes.

Mowbray was conscious of some embarrassment. His ideas upon the subject were not sharply defined, but if it had not been his daughter who questioned him he could have expressed them better. Beatrice ought to have left her parents to deal with a delicate matter like this, but instead she had boldly taken it into her own hands. He had tried to bring up his children well, but the becoming modesty which characterized young women in his youth had gone.

"No," he answered; "not exactly lenient. But the thing may not be so bad as you think--and one must make allowances. Then, a broken engagement reflects upon both parties. Even if one of them has an unquestionable grievance, it proves that that person acted very rashly in making a promise in the first instance."

1. engagement
2. Harding
3. No
4. yes
5. No
6. No
7. Yes
8. No
9. No
10. her parents
11. yes
12. Yes
13. both parties.
14. person acted very rashly in making a promise in the first instance

Numbered questions:
1. What had Beatrice broken?
2. with woh?
3. did her father and harding often agree?
4. Does he think she should have kept the engagement?
5. does he think she is being fair?
6. would she listen to her fiancee's excuses?
7. did she believe what she had heard about him?
8. Did her father think it made sense notto hear Harding's side of the story?
9. did he think she should have made the decision on her own?
10. who should have been involved?
11. did he think his daughter immodest?
12. did he see it as a parenting failure?
13. who does he feel looks bad in a broken engagement
14. what might it show>?

Q: Chapter VIII.--LOUDON POUNCES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ ONE NIGHT (LAST OF SEPTEMBER, 1761).

It was September 25th, more properly 26th, [Tempelhof, v. 327.] when Friedrich quitted Bunzelwitz; we heard on what errand. Early that morning he marches with all his goods, first to Pilzen (that fine post on the east side of Schweidnitz); and from that, straightway,--southwestward, two marches farther,--to Neisse neighborhood (Gross-Nossen the name of the place); Loudon making little dispute or none. In Neisse are abundant Magazines: living upon these, Friedrich intends to alarm Loudon's rearward country, and draw him towards Bohemia. As must have gradually followed; and would at once,--had Loudon been given to alarms, which he was not. Loudon, very privately, has quite different game afield. Loudon merely detaches this and the other small Corps to look after Friedrich's operations, which probably he believes to be only a feint:--and, before a week passes, Friedrich will have news he little expects!

Friedrich, pausing at Gross-Nossen, and perhaps a little surprised to find no Loudon meddling with him, pushes out, first one party and then another,--Dalwig, Bulow, towards Landshut Hill-Country, to threaten Loudon's Bohemian roads;--who, singular to say, do not hear the least word of Loudon thereabouts. A Loudon strangely indifferent to this new Enterprise of ours. On the third day of Gross-Nossen (Friday, October 2d), Friedrich detaches General Lentulus to rearward, or the way we came, for news of Loudon. Rearward too, Lentulus sees nothing whatever of Loudon: but, from the rumor of the country, and from two Prussian garrison-soldiers, whom he found wandering about,--he hears, with horror and amazement, That Loudon, by a sudden panther-spring, the night before last, has got hold of Schweidnitz: now his wholly, since 5 A.M. of yesterday; and a strong Austrian garrison in it by this time! That was the news Lentulus brought home to his King; the sorest Job's-post of all this War.

1. Friedrich.
2. No Loudon meddling with him.
3. Dalwig and Bulow.
4. Landshut Hill-Country,
5. September 25th, more properly 26th.
6. Bunzelwitz.
7. Marches with all his goods,
8. Pilzen.
9. That fine post.
10. On the east side of Schweidnitz.
11. Neisse neighborhood.
12. Southwestward.
13. Two marches.
14. Gross-Nossen.
15. Abundant Magazines.
16. Alarm them.
17. Draw him towards Bohemia.
18. Before a week passes.
19. Loudon.
20. Very privately.

Numbered questions:
1. Who paused at Gross-Nossen?
2. What was he caught off guard about?
3. What parties did he push out?
4. Where was he going in the direction of?
5. When was this?
6. What did Friedrich end with?
7. What did he do that morning?
8. Where did he go first?
9. Where did he go there?
10. Where?
11. Where did he go next?
12. Which direction did he travel to get there?
13. How far?
14. What was the proper name of the the Neisse neighborhood?
15. What are there a lot of in Neisse?
16. What does Friedrich plan to do to Loudon's back country?
17. And what?
18. How long before Friedrich will get unexpected news?
19. Who watches over Friedrich's business?
20. Did he do this openly?