Q: CHAPTER XVIII: DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

'Truly the tender mercies of the weak, As of the wicked, are but cruel.'

And how did Lilias show that she had been truly benefited by her sorrows? Did she fall back into her habits of self-indulgence, or did she run into ill-directed activity, selfish as her indolence, because only gratifying the passion of the moment?

Those who lived with her saw but little change; kind-hearted and generous she had ever been, and many had been her good impulses, so that while she daily became more steady in well-doing, and exerting herself on principle, no one remarked it, and no one entered into the struggles which it cost her to tame her impetuosity, or force herself to do what was disagreeable to herself, and might offend Emily.

However, Emily could forgive a great deal when she found that Lily was ready to take any part of the business of the household and schoolroom, which she chose to impose upon her, without the least objection, yet to leave her to assume as much of the credit of managing as she chose--to have no will or way of her own, and to help her to keep her wardrobe in order.

The schoolroom was just now more of a labour than had ever been the case, at least to one who, like Lilias, if she did a thing at all, would not be satisfied with half doing it. Phyllis was not altered, except that she cried less, and had in a great measure cured herself of dawdling habits and tricks, by her honest efforts to obey well- remembered orders of Eleanor's; but still her slowness and dulness were trying to her teachers, and Lily had often to reproach herself for being angry with her 'when she was doing her best.'

1. Emily
2. lily
3. yes
4. unknown
5. Emily
6. any

Numbered questions:
1. Who could forgive a great deal?
2. Who was she forgiving?
3. Were her old routines ones of altruism and generosity?
4. Was it the long-term that she would describe as giving pleasure?
5. Who may be offended?
6. How many rooms was she ready to assist with?

Q: A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text. The matched pair may be described as opening and closing, or left and right symbols.

Forms include round (also called "parentheses"), square, curly (also called "braces"), and angle brackets (also called "chevrons"); and various other pairs of symbols.

In addition to referring to the class of all types of brackets, the unqualified word "bracket" is most commonly used to refer to a specific type of bracket: in modern American usage this is usually the square bracket and in modern British usage this is usually the round bracket.

Chevrons were the earliest type of bracket to appear in written English. Desiderius Erasmus coined the term "lunula" to refer to the rounded parentheses (), recalling the shape of the crescent moon.

Some of the following names are regional or contextual.

The characters "" and "", known as guillemets or "angular quote brackets", are actually quotation mark glyphs used in several European languages. Which one of each pair is the opening quote mark and which is the closing quote varies between languages.

In English, typographers generally prefer to not set brackets in italics, even when the enclosed text is italic. However, in other languages like German, if brackets enclose text in italics, they are usually set in italics too.

1. Chevrons
2. Desiderius Erasmus
3. rounded parentheses
4. the shape of the crescent moon
5. unknown
6. parentheses
7. the square bracket
8. round bracket
9. angular quote brackets
10. set brackets in italics

Numbered questions:
1. What was the first form of brackets in written English?
2. Who came up with the name "lunula?"
3. What symbol did it refer to?
4. Which he thought resembled what?
5. How many types of brackets are there?
6. What is an example of a type of bracket?
7. What does bracket normally refer to in the modern American language?
8. How about in British?
9. What are guillemets also known as?
10. What do English typographers mostly not like to do?

Q: CHAPTER XII. LUCREZIA'S THIRD MARRIAGE

At about the same time that Burchard was making in his Diarium those entries which reflect so grossly upon the Pope and Lucrezia, Gianluca Pozzi, the ambassador of Ferrara at the Vatican, was writing the following letter to his master, Duke Ercole, Lucrezia's father-in-law elect:

"This evening, after supper, I accompanied Messer Gerardo Saraceni to visit the Most Illustrious Madonna Lucrezia in your Excellency's name and that of the Most Illustrious Don Alfonso. We entered into a long discussion touching various matters. In truth she showed herself a prudent, discreet, and good-natured lady."(1)

1 See Gregorovius's Lucrezia Borgia.

The handsome, athletic Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, with his brothers Sigismondo and Fernando, had arrived in Rome on December 23 with the imposing escort that was to accompany their brother Alfonso's bride back to Ferrara.

Cesare was prominent in the welcome given them. Never, perhaps, had he made greater display than on the occasion of his riding out to meet the Ferrarese, accompanied by no fewer than 4,000 men-at-arms, and mounted on a great war-horse whose trappings of cloth of gold and jewels were estimated at 10,000 ducats.

The days and nights that followed, until Lucrezia's departure a fortnight later, were days and nights of gaiety and merry-making at the Vatican; in banquets, dancing, the performance of comedies, masques, etc., was the time made to pass as agreeably as might be for the guests from Ferrara, and in all Cesare was conspicuous, either for the grace and zest with which he nightly danced, or for the skill and daring which he displayed in the daily joustings and entertainments, and more particularly in the bull-fight that was included in them.

1. Cesare
2. no fewer than 4,000 men-
3. a horse
4. 10,000 ducats
5. days and nights
6. yes
7. Yes
8. Lucrezia's departure
9. Duke Ercole's son
10. she was a prudent, discreet, and good-natured
11. the Most Illustrious Madonna
12. Alfonso
13. Two
14. Rome
15. December 23
16. the ambassador of Ferrara
17. Gianluca Pozzi
18. his master
19. Duke Ercole
20. Cardinal Ippolito d'Este

Numbered questions:
1. Who rode out to meet someone?
2. With how many people?
3. And on what?
4. With things worth how much?
5. How long was the party?
6. Was there dancing?
7. Did Cesare dance?
8. What ended the celebration?
9. Who was she to marry?
10. What character traits did she have?
11. What was her title?
12. Which of the brothers was getting married?
13. How many brothers did he have?
14. Where did they go?
15. When did they arrive?
16. Who wrote the letter?
17. What was his name?
18. To who did he write?
19. Named?
20. What was the future groom's title?