CHAPTER I

THE PERSISTENCY OF BORROWDEAN

"And what does Mannering think of it all, I wonder!" Lord Redford remarked, lighting a fresh cigarette. "This may be his opportunity, who can tell!"

"Will he have the nerve to grasp it?" Borrowdean asked. "Mannering has never been proved in a crisis."

"He may have the nerve. I should be more inclined to question the desire," Lord Redford said. "For a man in his position he has always seemed to me singularly unambitious. I don't think that the prospect of being Prime Minister would dazzle him in the least. It is part of the genius of the politician too, to know exactly when and how to seize an opportunity. I can imagine him watching it come, examining it through his eyeglass, and standing on one side with a shrug of the shoulders."

"You do not believe, then," Berenice said, "that he is sufficiently in earnest to grasp it?"

"Exactly," Lord Redford said. "I have that feeling about Mannering, I must admit, especially during the last two years. He seems to have drawn away from all of us, to live altogether too absorbed and self-contained a life for a man who has great ambitions to realize, or who is in downright earnest about his work."

"What you all forget when you discuss Lawrence Mannering is this," Berenice said. "He holds his position almost as a sacred charge. He is absolutely conscientious. He wants certain things for the sake of the people, and he will work steadily on until he gets them. I believe it is the truth that he has no personal ambition, but if the cause he has at heart is to be furthered at all it must be by his taking office. Therefore I think that when the time comes he will take it." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Was someone smoking?
2. Who?
3. Who had a query for him?
4. Who were they discussing?
5. Who else was involved in the talk?
6. Did Borrowdean feel the subject of their talk, was proven?
7. Who questioned his hunger?
8. Did he find this person to be ambitious?
9. What political position were they discussing?
10. Who questioned his earnestness?
11. Who also doubted he had this quality?
12. In his opinion, had Mannering become too close to them?
13. Who felt he viewed his role as sacrosanct?
14. Did she think he was dishonest?
15. For whose interests did she feel he labored?
16. Did she feel he might give up on this easily?
17. Did Lord Redford feel, he desired the job they were discussing?
18. Did Berenice agree with this?
19. How did she feel he would advance his cause?
20. What did Lord Redford see as a component of political brilliance?
Answer: 1. Yes.
2. Lord Redford
3. Borrowdean
4. Mannering
5. Berenice
6. No.
7. Lord Redford
8. No.
9. Prime Minister
10. Berenice
11. Lord Redford
12. No.
13. Berenice
14. No.
15. the people
16. No.
17. No.
18. No.
19. by his taking office
20. to know exactly when and how to seize an opportunity

question: Having not seen or heard from her daughter in two weeks, Alexis Murphy's mother said in a CNN interview she is keeping strong with support from family and friends.

"A mother would know if her daughter is really gone, but I still have hope," Laura Murphy said.

Alexis Murphy was last seen at a gas station earlier this month. Police have arrested a suspect in her abduction, but the suspect's attorney told a CNN affiliate his client split ways with the 17-year-old after a drug deal.

Murphy's disappearance set off a search that extended 30 miles outside of Lovingston, Virginia, and involved helicopters, search parties with canine units, the Nelson County Sheriff's Office, Virginia State Police and FBI.

Where is Alexis Murphy?

Alexis left her Shipman, Virginia, home to visit Lynchburg on August 3, and police have surveillance video showing her at a Lovingston gas station, according to affiliate WVIR-TV in Charlottesville.

Randy Taylor, 48, was seen on the video and was arrested in her abduction Sunday, police told CNN affiliate WRC-TV, but Taylor's attorney, Michael Hallahan, told WVIR that Taylor was arrested because they found one of Alexis' hairs in his camper.

The attorney also told WVIR his client wasn't the last person to see Alexis and that police need to be looking for a "black male, mid- to late-20s, cornrows and a 20-year-old burgundy Caprice with 22-inch wheels."

Taylor saw the girl the night she disappeared, the lawyer said. They were both parked at the gas pumps, and Alexis made a reference to smoking marijuana, Hallahan said. Taylor told her he'd like some marijuana, the attorney said.
1. Who was interviewed by CNN?
2. What's her name?
3. How long has it been since she's seen her daughter?
4. Where's the last place Alexis was seen?
5. How old is Alexis?
6. What state does the story take place in?
7. And what month?
8. Have the police been involved?
9. Only local police?
10. Any other agencies?
11. What town was Alexis seen last in?
12. Do police have evidence of this sighting?
13. Is anyone else in the video?
14. Who?
15. How old is he?
16. Was he arrested?
17. Why?
18. Is there anyone else who might have seen Alexis after him?
19. How was he described?
20. What did Alexis and Taylor talk about?
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answer:
1. Alexis Murphy's mother.
2. Laura.
3. two weeks
4. At a gas station
5. 17.
6. Virginia
7. August
8. Yes.
9. No, state police as well.
10. Nelson County Sheriff's Office and FBI.
11. Lovingston
12. Police have surveillance video.
13. Yes.
14. Randy Taylor
15. 48
16. He was.
17. They found a hair in his camper.
18. The attorney said there was.
19. As a black male with corrows and in his 20's.
20. Marijuana.