Problem: Chapter 14

THROUGH THE VALLEY

Sampson looked strangely at the great bloody blot on my breast and his look made me conscious of a dark hurrying of my mind. Morton came stamping up the steps with blunt queries, with anxious mien. When he saw the front of me he halted, threw wide his arms.

"There come the girls!" suddenly exclaimed Sampson. "Morton, help me drag Wright inside. They mustn't see him."

I was facing down the porch toward the court and corrals. Miss Sampson and Sally had come in sight, were swiftly approaching, evidently alarmed. Steele, no doubt, had remained out at the camp. I was watching them, wondering what they would do and say presently, and then Sampson and Johnson came to carry me indoors. They laid me on the couch in the parlor where the girls used to be so often.

"Russ, you're pretty hard hit," said Sampson, bending over me, with his hands at my breast. The room was bright with sunshine, yet the light seemed to be fading.

"Reckon I am," I replied.

"I'm sorry. If only you could have told me sooner! Wright, damn him! Always I've split over him!"

"But the last time, Sampson."

"Yes, and I came near driving you to kill me, too. Russ, you talked me out of it. For Diane's sake! She'll be in here in a minute. This'll be harder than facing a gun."

"Hard now. But it'll--turn out--O.K."

"Russ, will you do me a favor?" he asked, and he seemed shamefaced.
1. Who had remained at the camp?
2. Who carried the narrator indoors?
3. Where did they put him down?
4. In which room?
5. Who was hit hard?
6. Where was the bloody spot?
7. Who looked strangely at it?
8. And who was coming up the steps?
9. What did Sampson shout out?
10. What were the names of the women who were approaching?
11. Did they seem calm?
12. How did they seem?
13. Was the parlor room dark?
14. What was happening to the light?
15. Who was going to be there in a minute?
16. What number chapter is this?
17. What is its title?
18. What was Russ' last name?
19. What did Sampson's look make the narrator conscious of?
20. What did Morton come stamping up the steps with?
Answer: 1. Steele
2. Sampson and Johnson
3. On the couch
4. In the parlor
5. Russ
6. On his breast
7. Sampson
8. Morton
9. "There come the girls!"
10. Miss Sampson and Sally
11. No
12. Alarmed
13. No
14. Seemed to be fading.
15. Diane
16. 14
17. THROUGH THE VALLEY
18. Wright
19. a dark hurrying of my mind.
20. blunt queries,

Q: CHAPTER XXIII

"But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny?" said Lady Bertram. "How came she to think of asking Fanny? Fanny never dines there, you know, in this sort of way. I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go. Fanny, you do not want to go, do you?"

"If you put such a question to her," cried Edmund, preventing his cousin's speaking, "Fanny will immediately say No; but I am sure, my dear mother, she would like to go; and I can see no reason why she should not."

"I cannot imagine why Mrs. Grant should think of asking her? She never did before. She used to ask your sisters now and then, but she never asked Fanny."

"If you cannot do without me, ma'am--" said Fanny, in a self-denying tone.

"But my mother will have my father with her all the evening."

"To be sure, so I shall."

"Suppose you take my father's opinion, ma'am."

"That's well thought of. So I will, Edmund. I will ask Sir Thomas, as soon as he comes in, whether I can do without her."

"As you please, ma'am, on that head; but I meant my father's opinion as to the _propriety_ of the invitation's being accepted or not; and I think he will consider it a right thing by Mrs. Grant, as well as by Fanny, that being the _first_ invitation it should be accepted."

"I do not know. We will ask him. But he will be very much surprised that Mrs. Grant should ask Fanny at all."

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Mrs Grant want?
2. to do what?
3. Who doesn't want her to go?
4. Why?
5. Who thinks she should go?
6. Whom is he?
7. Who did Mrs Grant ask before?
8. What did Edmund suggest?
9. who is his father?
10. Who did not let Fanny answer?
A: 1. Fanny
2. to dine somewhere
3. Lady Bertram
4. she cannot spare her
5. Edmund
6. her cousin
7. his sisters
8. ask his father's opinion
9. Sir Thomas
10. Edmund

Problem: CHAPTER XLV.

THE INVASION OF HAMPSHIRE.

When Tom and the major arrived at Waterloo Station, the latter in the breathless condition described in a preceding chapter, they found the German waiting for them with his two fellow-exiles. The gentleman of Nihilistic proclivities was somewhat tall and thin, with a long frock-coat buttoned almost up to his throat, which showed signs of giving at the seams every here and there. His grizzly hair fell over his collar behind, and he had a short bristling beard. He stood with one hand stuck into the front of his coat and the other upon his hip, as though rehearsing the position in which his statue might be some day erected in the streets of his native Russia, when the people had their own, and despotism was no more. In spite of his worn attire there was something noble and striking about the man. His bow, when Baumser introduced him to the major and Tom, would have graced any Court in Europe. Round his neck he had a coarse string from which hung a pair of double eye-glasses. These he fixed upon his aquiline nose, and took a good look at the gentlemen whom he had come to serve.

Bulow, of Kiel, was a small, dark-eyed, clean-shaven fellow, quick and energetic in his movements, having more the appearance of a Celt than of a Teuton. He seemed to be full of amiability, and assured the major in execrable English how very happy he was to be able to do a service to one who had shown kindness to their esteemed colleague and persecuted patriot, Von Baumser. Indeed both of the men showed great deference to the German, and the major began to perceive that his friend was a very exalted individual in Socialistic circles. He liked the look of the two foreigners, and congratulated himself upon having their co-operation in the matter on hand.
1. Who is traveling?
2. Where were they going?
3. Who was waiting for them?
4. What was the name of one of the exiles?
5. What country was he exiled from?
6. What did Bulow look like?
7. What language did he speak?
8. How did he feel at the moment?
9. What was the other exile's name?
10. Did they like the German?
11. Is he an important individual?
12. Was the German tall?
13. Did he wear glasses?
14. Did he have any facial hair?
15. Was he wearing new clothes?
16. What was he wearing?
17. How could you tell it was not new?
18. Can you describe his hair?
19. Was it short?
20. Was he a distinguished individual?
Answer:
1. Tom and the major
2. Waterloo Station
3. the German with his two fellow-exiles.
4. Bulow,
5. Russia
6. he was small, dark-eyed, clean-shaven
7. English
8. full of amiability,
9. Von Baumser.
10. yes
11. yes
12. yes
13. yes
14. yes
15. no
16. a long frock-coat
17. it showed signs of giving at the seams every here and there.
18. grizzly
19. no
20. yes