CHAPTER XIX. WOOING IN THE DARK.

You may put out my eyes with a ballad-maker's pen, and hang me up for the sign of blind Cupid.--_Much Ado About Nothing_.

Aurelia had been walking in the park with her two remaining charges, when a bespattered messenger was seen riding up to the door, and Letitia dropped her hoop in her curiosity and excitement.

Lady Belamour, on obtaining the Major's partial acquiescence, had felt herself no longer obliged to vegetate at Carminster, but had started for Bath, while the roads were still practicable; and had at the same time sent off a courier with letters to Bowstead. Kind Mrs. Dove had sent a little packet to each of the children, but they found Cousin Aura's sympathy grievously and unwontedly lacking, and she at last replied to their repeated calls to here to share their delight, that they must run away, and display their treasures to Molly and Jumbo. She must read her letters alone.

The first she had opened was Betty's, telling her of her father's illness, which was attributed in great part to the distress and perplexity caused by Lady Belamour's proposal. Had it not been for this indisposition, both father and sister would have come to judge for themselves before entertaining it for a moment; but since the journey was impossible, he could only desire Betty to assure her sister that no constraint should be put on her, and that if she felt the least repugnance to the match, she need not consider her obliged to submit. More followed about the religious duty of full consideration and prayer before deciding on what would fix her destiny for life, but all was so confusing to the girl, entirely unprepared as she was, that after hastily glancing on in search of an explanation which she failed to find, she laid it aside, and opened the other letter. It began imperially What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Which correspondence did the woman open first?
2. what did it describe?
3. what did Betty say was causing it?
4. If he had been well, what would happen?
5. but because he couldn't come?
6. what else?
7. was she helped by the talk of prayer?
8. so what did she do?
9. who had been walking in the park?
10. was the messenger clean?
11. where did he take his message?
12. who was excited?
13. what did she do?
14. what doid the major give?
15. that let the lady move from where?
16. what had she been doing there?
17. where was she headed?
18. how were the roads?
19. how did she contact Bowstead
20. did the kids like their cousin?
21. what did they want to do?
Answer: 1. Betty's
2. her father's illness
3. Lady Belamour's proposal.
4. he and sister would have come
5. he could only desire Betty to assure her sister that no constraint should be put on her,
6. That she need not consider herself obliged to submit to the match.
7. no
8. she laid the letter aside
9. Aurelia
10. no
11. to the door
12. Letitia
13. dropped her hoop
14. his partial acquiescence
15. Carminster
16. vegetating
17. Bath
18. practicable
19. with letters
20. no
21. to share their delight

Problem: KUPANG, Indonesia (CNN) -- At Roslin Orphanage, children giggle through deep concentration as they try to master the "Chicken Dance." It's a far cry from the Indonesian orphans' earlier months and years.

Budi Soehardi poses with young residents of Roslin Orphanage.

"They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story," said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage.

"Some of the babies come because a mother passes away right after delivery because of lack of nutrition. Others come from extreme poverty. Some come from families [that] just do not want the children and abandon them," he said. Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year

Soehardi, a 53-year-old Indonesian pilot living in Singapore, and his wife, Peggy, look after 47 children at the orphanage. They have a personal relationship with each one, and consider them part of their family. The couple named many of the children since they entered the orphanage as babies -- some of them tiny victims and refugees from the conflict in East Timor.

Soehardi has three children of his own but says there is no difference between what he supplies for his biological children and those living at the orphanage. They all get clean living spaces, vaccinations, food, clothing and vitamins from the United States.

"Mr. Budi is like my own father," said Gerson Mangi, 20, a resident at Roslin Orphanage. Mangi, who came to the orphanage when he was 12 years old, had no means to attend school after his parents died. Now, thanks to the educational training at Roslin and a private sponsor, he is in medical school.
1. how many kids live in the orphanage?
2. who runs it?
3. first name?
4. his age?
5. is he married?
6. her name?
7. does he have his own kids?
8. 4 of them?
9. how many?
10. does he treat his own kids different?
11. what does he provide for the kids?
12. anything else?
13. how many more things?
14. can you name one more?
15. where are they sent from?
16. is someone being educated?
17. who?
18. his age?
19. where does he live?
20. where is that located?
Answer: 1. 47
2. Soehardi
3. Budi
4. 53
5. Yes
6. Peggy
7. Yes
8. No
9. three children
10. No
11. clean living spaces
12. Yes
13. Four
14. vitamins
15. the United States.
16. Yes
17. Gerson Mangi
18. 20
19. at the Roslin Orphanage
20. West Timor

question: Fortran (; formerly FORTRAN, derived from "Formula Translation") is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, crystallography and computational chemistry. It is a popular language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.

Fortran encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with prior versions. Successive versions have added support for structured programming and processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and generic programming (Fortran 90), high performance Fortran (Fortran 95), object-oriented programming (Fortran 2003) and concurrent programming (Fortran 2008).

The names of earlier versions of the language through FORTRAN 77 were conventionally spelled in all-capitals (FORTRAN 77 was the last version in which the use of lowercase letters in keywords was strictly non-standard). The capitalization has been dropped in referring to newer versions beginning with Fortran 90. The official language standards now refer to the language as "Fortran" rather than all-caps "FORTRAN".
1. When was Fortran created?
2. For what purpose?
3. What was a name of an earlier version?
4. Did they purposely spell it with capital letters?
5. Has that practice ended?
6. Starting with which version?
7. What two words were used to come up with the name?
8. What kind of language is it?
9. Did it lead programming of this type?
10. How long has it been in use?
11. List something computationally intensive?
12. Is it used to test and assess the world's fastest computers?
13. What was added to new versions?
14. Did they keep it backwards compatible?
15. What kind of programming did they add support for?
16. What other support was also added?
17. How about in Fortran 95?
18. And in 2008?
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answer:
1. in the 1950s
2. for scientific and engineering applications
3. FORTRAN 77
4. yes
5. yes
6. Fortran 90
7. Formula Translation
8. a general-purpose, imperative programming language
9. yes
10. for over half a century
11. numerical weather prediction
12. yes
13. extensions to the language
14. usually
15. structured programming
16. processing of character-based data
17. high performance
18. concurrent programming