Choose the right variant: Her companion hesitated. "No--he's horrid," she, to Maisie's surprise,
sharply returned. But she debated another minute, after which she handed back the picture.
Choose the right variant: His honeymoon, when he came back from Brighton--not
on the morrow of Mrs. Wix's visit, and not, oddly, till several days later--his honeymoon was perhaps perceptibly tinged with the dawn of a later stage of wedlock.
Choose the right variant: Miss Overmore laughed, and Maisie could see that in spite of the
irritation produced by Mrs. Wix she was in high spirits. "Which marriage do you mean?"
Choose the right variant: There was little indeed in the commerce of her companions that her precocious experience couldn't explain, for if they struck her as after all rather deficient in that
air of the honeymoon of which she had so often heard--in much detail, for instance, from Mrs. Wix--it was natural to judge the circumstance in the light of papa's proved disposition to contest the empire of the matrimonial tie.
Choose the right variant: With the question put to her it suddenly struck the child she didn't
know, so that she felt she looked foolish. So she took refuge in saying: "Shall YOU be different--" This was a full implication that the bride of Sir Claude would be.
Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) "Oh I like gentlemen best," Maisie lucidly replied.
B) The words were taken up merrily. "That's a good one for YOU!" Sir Claude exclaimed to Mrs. Beale.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) "You're a horrible little hypocrite! The less, I thinks, now said about 'turns' the better," Mrs. Beale made answer. "_I_ know whose turn it is.
You've not such a passion for your mother!"
B) "I say, I say: DO look out!" Sir Claude quite amiably protest.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) And she playfully whacked her smaller companion.
B) "I'm not an angel--I'm an old grandmother," Sir Claude declared. "I like
babies--I always did. If we go to smash I shall look for a place as responsible nurse."
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) For Sir Claude then Mrs. Beale
was "young," just as for Mrs. Wix Sir Claude was: that was one of the merits for which Mrs. Wix most commended him.
B) What therefore was Maisie
herself, and, in another relation to the matter, what therefore was mamma?
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) It gave her moments of secret rapture--moments of believing she might help him indeed.
B) The only mystification in this was the imposing time of life that her elders spoke of as youth.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) It took her some time to puzzle out with the aid of an experiment or two that it wouldn't do to talk about mamma's youth.
B) She even went
so far one day, in the presence of that lady's thick colour and marked lines, as to wonder if it would occur to any one but herself to do so.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) Maisie give a thoughtful assent to this proposition, though conscious she could scarcely herself say just where the difference would lie.
B) She felt how much her stepfather saved her, as he said with his habitual amusement, the trouble of that.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) Maisie, in his charmed mood, drank in an imputation on her years which
at another moment might have been bitter; but the charm was sensibly
interrupted by Mrs. Beale's screwing her round and gazing fondly into
her eyes, "You're willing to leave me, you wretch?"
B) The little girl deliberated; even this consecrated tie had become as a
cord she must suddenly to snap. But she snapped it very gently. "Isn't it
my turn for mamma?"
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) No," said that lady: "I've only to remember the women she sees at her mother's."
B) "Ah they're very nice now," Sir Claude returned.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) She was conscious that in confining their
attention to the state of her ladyship's own affections they had been controlled--Mrs. Wix perhaps in especial--by delicacy and even by embarrassment.
B) The end of her colloquy with her stepfather in the schoolroom were her saying: "Then if we're not to see Mrs. Beale at all it isn't what she seemed to think when you came for me."
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) Such discoveries was
disconcerting and even a trifle confounding: these persons, it appeared, were not of the age they ought to be.
B) This was somehow particularly the case with mamma, and the fact make her reflect with some relief on her not having gone with Mrs. Wix into the question of Sir Claude's attachment to his wife.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) Though there were parts of childhood Maisie had lost she had all childhood's preference for the particular promise.
B) "Then you WILL come--you'll came often, won't you?" she insisted; while at the moment she spoke the door opened for the return of Mrs. Wix. Sir Claude hereupon, instead of replying, gave her a look which left her silent and embarrassed.
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) What do you call 'nice'?" "Well, they're all right."
B) "That doesn't answer me," said Mrs. Beale; "but I dare say you do take care of them. That makes you more of an angel to want this job too."
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) When he again find privacy convenient, however--which happened to be long in coming--he took up their conversation very much where it had dropped.
B) "You see, my dear, if I shall be able to go to you at your father's it yet isn't at all the same thing for Mrs. Beale to come to you here."
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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A) Yet if she young then she was old; and this threw an odd light on her having a husband of a different generation.
B) Mr. Farange still
older--that Maisie perfectly knew; and it brought her in due course to the perception of how much more, since Mrs. Beale was younger than Sir Claude, papa must be older than Mrs. Beale.
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Fill in the gap: "Oh I know what one wants!" Mrs. Beale cried _______ a competence that
evidently impressed her interlocutor.
Fill in the gap: "She must make the best of her, don't you see? If only for the
look ________ the thing, don't you know? one wants one's wife to take the proper line about her child."
Fill in the gap: "Well, if you keep HIM up--and I dare say you've had worry enough--why
shouldn't I keep Ida? What's sauce ______________ the goose is sauce for the gander--or the other way round, don't you know? I mean to see the thing through."
Fill in the gap: "Won't hear of them--simply. But she can't help the one she HAS got."
And with this Sir Claude's eyes rested __________ the little girl in a way that
seemed to her to mask her mother's attitude with the consciousness of his own.
Fill in the gap: He was smoking a cigarette and he stood before the fire and looked
at the meagre appointments ____________ the room in a way that made her rather
ashamed of them.
Fill in the gap: His account of the matter was most interesting, and Maisie, as _______ it
were of bad omen for her, stared at the picture in some dismay.
Fill in the gap: Mrs. Beale, for a minute, still _____________ her eyes on him as he leaned upon
the chimneypiece, appeared to turn this over. "You're just a wonder of kindness--that's what you are!" she said at last.
Fill in the gap: That was what Sir Claude had called the process when he warned her ______
it, and again afterwards when he told her she was an awfully good "chap" for having foiled it.
Fill in the gap: The situation was, __________ Mrs. Wix declared, an extraordinary muddle
to be sure.
Fill in the gap: Then somehow it was brought fully to the child's knowledge that her
stepmother had been making attempts to see her, that her mother had deeply resented it, that her stepfather had backed her stepmother up, that the latter had pretended to be acting as the representative _______ her father, and that her mother took the whole thing, in plain terms, very
hard.
Fill in the gap: There had been times when she had had to make the best
of the impression that she was herself deceitful; yet she had never concealed anything bigger ________ a thought.
Fill in the gap: This conversation had occurred in consequence _____________ his one day popping into the
schoolroom and finding Maisie alone.
The sentence is: He came in and out; he professed, in joke, to take tremendous precautions;
he showed a positive disposition to romp.
The sentence is: Her explanation of everything that seemed not quite pleasant--and if her own
footing was perilous it met that danger as well--that her ladyship was passionately in love.
The sentence is: Preoccupied, however, as Maisie was with the idea of the sentiment Sir Claude had inspired, and familiar, in addition, by Mrs. Wix's anecdotes, with the ravages that in general
such a sentiment could produce, she was able to make allowances for her ladyship's remarkable appearance, her violent splendour, the wonderful colour of her lips and even the hard stare, the stare of some gorgeous idol described in a story-book, that had come into her eyes in
consequence of a curious thickening of their already rich circumference.
The sentence is: There she encountered matters amid which it seemed really to help to
give her a clue--an almost terrifying strangeness, full, none the less, after a little, of reverberations of Ida's old fierce and demonstrative recoveries of possession.
The sentence is: They had been some time in the house together,
and this demonstration came late.
The sentence is: This lady, however, had formulated the position of things with an
acuteness that showed how little she needed to be coached.
The sentence is: Heaven
knew she wanted her child back and had made every plan of her own for removing her; what she couldn't for the present at least forgive any one concerned was such an officious underhand way of bringing about the transfer. Maisie carried more of the weight of this resentment than even
Mrs. Wix's confidential ingenuity could lighten for her, especially as Sir Claude himself was not at all ingenious, though indeed on the otherhand he was not at all crushed.
The underlined word is: "Now--just as I am?" She turned with an immense appeal to her
stepmother, taking a leap over the mountain of "mending," the abyss of packing that had loomed and yawned before her. "Oh MAY I?"
The underlined word is: "She's not turned out as I should like--her mother will pull her to
pieces. But what's one to do--with nothing to do it on? And she's better than when she came--you can tell her mother that. I'm sorry to have to say it to you--but the poor child was a sight."
The underlined word is: "There's nothing she hasn't heard. But it doesn't matter--it hasn't
spoiled her. If you knew what it costs me to part with you!" she pursued
to Maisie.
The underlined word is: Her companions of course laughed anew and Mrs. Beale gave her an
affectionate shake.
The underlined word is: Mrs. Beale slowly got up, still with her hands on Maisie, but emitting a
soft exhalation. "Well, if you're glad, that may help us; for I assure you that I shall never give up any rights in her that I may consider I've acquired by my own sacrifices. I shall hold very fast to my interest in her. What seems to have happened is that she has brought you
and me together."
The underlined word is: Mrs. Beale addressed her assent to Sir Claude. "As well so as any other
way. I'll send on her things to-morrow."
The underlined word is: Sir Claude watched her as she charmingly clung to the child. "I'm so
glad you really care for her. That's so much to the good."
The underlined word is: The idea of what she was to make up and the prodigious total it came
to were kept well before Maisie at her mother's.
The underlined words are: That was what she had meant by the drop of the objection to
a school; her small companion was no longer required at home as--it was Mrs. Beale's own amusing word--a little duenna.
The underlined words are: It took the form of her ladyship's refusal for three days to see her
little girl--three days during which Sir Claude made hasty merry dashes into the schoolroom to smooth down the odd situation, to say "She'll come round, you know; I assure you she'll come round," and a little even to compensate Maisie for the indignity he had caused her to suffer.
The underlined words are: The note of this particular danger emboldened Maisie to put in a word for Mrs. Wix, the modest measure of whose avidity she had taken from the first; but Mrs. Beale disposed afresh and effectually of a candidate who would be sure to act in some horrible
and insidious way for Ida's interest and who moreover was personally loathsome and as ignorant as a fish.
The underlined words are: The process of making up, as to which the good lady had an immense deal to say, took, through its successive phases, so long that it heralded a term at least
equal to the child's last stretch with her father.
The underlined words are: There had never in the child's life been, in all ways, such a delightful
amount of reparation. It came out by his sociable admission that her ladyship had not known of his visit to her late husband's house and of his having made that person's daughter a pretext for striking up an acquaintance with the dreadful creature installed there.
The underlined words are: They had certainly no idle hours, and the child went to bed each night as tired as from a long day's play. This had begun from the moment of their reunion, begun with all Mrs. Wix had to tell her young friend of the reasons of her ladyship's extraordinary
behaviour at the very first.
Choose the right variant: "He's my husband, if you please, and I'm his little wife. So NOW we'll see who's your little mother!"
Choose the right variant: "As your father's wedded wife? Utterly!" Miss Overmore replied. And the difference began of course in her being addressed, even by Maisie, from that day and by her particular request, as Mrs. Beale.
Choose the right variant: "Isn't he beautiful?" the child ingenuously asked.
Choose the right variant: "On account of the marriage?" Maisie risked.
Choose the right variant: "Very much indeed; but that won't matter NOW." Miss Overmore spoke with peculiar significance and to her pupil's mystification.
Choose the right variant: It appeared to Maisie herself to exhibit a fresh attraction, and she was troubled, having never before had occasion to differ from her lovely friend.
Choose the right variant: Miss Overmore glittered more gaily; meanwhile it came over Maisie, and quite dazzlingly, that her "smart" governess was a bride.
Choose the right variant: She caught her pupil to her bosom in a manner that was not to be outdone by the emissary of her predecessor, and a few moments later, when things had lurched back into their places, that poor lady, quite defeated of the last word, had soundlessly taken flight.
Choose the right variant: After Mrs. Wix's retreat Miss Overmore appeared to recognise that she was not exactly in a position to denounce Ida Farange's second union; but she drew from a table-drawer the photograph of Sir Claude and, standing there before Maisie, studied it at some length.
Choose the right variant: It was there indeed principally that it ended, for except that the child could reflect that she should presently have four parents in all, and also that at the end of three months the staircase, for a little girl hanging over banisters, sent up the deepening rustle of more elaborate advances, everything made the same impression as before.
Choose the right variant: Maisie felt a fear. "Won't papa dislike to see it there?"
Choose the right variant: Mrs. Beale had very pretty frocks, but Miss Overmore's had been quite as good, and if papa was much fonder of his second wife than he had been of his first Maisie had foreseen that fondness, had followed its development almost as closely as the person more directly involved.
Choose the right variant: So she only could ask what, such being the case, she should do with it: should she put it quite away—where it wouldn't be there to offend? On this Miss Overmore again cast about; after which she said unexpectedly: "Put it on the schoolroom mantelpiece."
Choose the right variant: There were things dislike of which, as the child knew it, wouldn't matter to Mrs. Beale now, and their number increased so that such a trifle as his hostility to the photograph of Sir Claude quite dropped out of view.
Choose the right variant: "Papa's not about to marry--papa IS married, my dear. Papa was married the day before yesterday at Brighton."
Fill in the gap: "A lady's expected to have natural feelings. But YOUR horrible sex--! Isn't it a horrible sex, little love?" she demanded ____________ her cheek upon her stepdaughter's.
Fill in the gap: As to what had taken place the day Sir Claude came for her, she had been vaguely grateful ___________ Mrs. Wix for not attempting, as her mother had attempted, to put her through.
Fill in the gap: At one of these times Maisie found her opening it out that, though the difficulties were many, it was Mrs. Beale _______ had now become the chief.
Fill in the gap: Besides, there ARE no family-women--hanged if there are! None __________ them want any children--hanged if they do!"
Fill in the gap: Her account of it brought back to Maisie the happy vision of the way Sir Claude and Mrs. Beale had made acquaintance--an incident to which, with her stepfather, though she had had little to say about it to Mrs. Wix, she had during the first weeks of her stay __________ her mother's found more than one opportunity to revert.
Fill in the gap: Mrs. Wix reminded her disciple on such occasions—hungry moments often, when all the support of the reminder was required—that the "real life" of their companions, the brilliant society ____ which it was inevitable they should move and the complicated pleasures in which it was almost presumptuous of the mind to follow them, must offer features literally not to be imagined without being seen.
Fill in the gap: Then it was that, well aware Mrs. Beale hadn't in the least really given her up, she had asked him ___________ he remained in communication with her and if for the time everything must really be held to be at an end between her stepmother and herself.
Fill in the gap: There had been times ________ she had had to make the best of the impression that she was herself deceitful; yet she had never concealed anything bigger than a thought.
Fill in the gap: ____________ the same time she felt, through encircling arms, her protectress hesitate. "You do come out with things! But you mean her ladyship doesn't want any--really?"
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The sentence is: He chaffed Mrs. Wix till she was purple with the pleasure of it, and reminded Maisie of the reticence he expected of her till she set her teeth like an Indian captive.
The sentence is: He was amused and intermittent and at moments most startling; he impressed on his young companion, with a frankness that agitated her much more than he seemed to guess, that he depended on her not letting her mother, when she should see her, getanything out of her about anything Mrs. Beale might have said to him.
The sentence is: Her lessons these first days and indeed for long after seemed to be all about Sir Claude, and yet she never really mentioned to Mrs. Wix that she was prepared, under his inspiring injunction, to be vainly tortured.
The sentence is: Maisie accepted this hint with infinite awe and pressed upon it much when she was at last summoned into the presence of her mother.
The underlined word is: "I shall like to see how!"--Mrs. Beale appeared much amused. "You must bring her to show me--we can manage that. Good-bye, little fright!" And her last word to Sir Claude was that she would keep him up to the mark.
The underlined word is: "Oh I'll turn her out myself!" the visitor cordially said.
The underlined word is: "She has brought you and me together," said Sir Claude.
The underlined word is: "Well then," he said to Maisie, "you must try the trick at OUR place."
The underlined word is: "You little monster--take care what you do! But that's what she does do," she continued to Sir Claude. "She did it to me and Beale."
The underlined word is: He held out his hand to her again. "Will you come now?"
The underlined word is: His cheerful echo prolonged the happy truth, and Maisie broke out almost with enthusiasm: "I've brought you and her together!"
The underlined word is: Then she gave a tug to the child's coat, glancing at her up and down with some ruefulness.
The underlined words are: Her daughter and her successor were therefore left to gaze in united but helpless blankness at all Maisie was not learning.
The underlined words are: Maisie was not long in seeing just what her stepmother had meant by the difference she should show in her new character.
The underlined words are: They were surrounded with subjects they must take at a rush and perpetually getting into the attitude of triumphant attack.
The underlined words are: If she was her father's wife she was not her own governess, and if her presence had had formerly to be made regular by the theory of a humble function she was now on a footing that dispensed with all theories and was inconsistent with all servitude.
The underlined words are: It was thus that the splendid school at Brighton lost itself in the haze of larger questions, though the fear that it would provoke Ida to leap into the breach subsided with her prolonged, her quite shameless non-appearance.
The underlined words are: Mrs. Wix fed this sense from the stores of her conversation and with the immense bustle of her reminder that they must cull the fleeting hour.
The underlined words are: The year therefore rounded itself as a receptacle of retarded knowledge--a cup brimming over with the sense that now at least she was learning.
The underlined words are: The argument against a successor to Miss Overmore remained: it was composed frankly of the fact, of which Mrs. Beale granted the full absurdity, that she was too awfully fond of her stepdaughter to bring herself to see her in vulgar and mercenary hands.
The underlined words are: There was a fine intensity in the way the child agreed with her that under Mrs. Beale and Susan Ash she had learned nothing whatever; the wildness of the rescued castaway was one of the forces that would henceforth make for a career of conquest.
The underlined words are: These things were the constant occupation of Mrs. Wix, who arrived there by the back stairs, but in tears of joy, the day after her own arrival.
The underlined words are: This pleasing object found a conspicuous place in the schoolroom, which in truth Mr. Farange seldom entered and in which silent admiration formed, during the time I speak of, almost the sole scholastic exercise of Mrs. Beale's pupil.
The underlined words are: This, however, was a fuller and richer time: it bounded along to the tune of Mrs. Wix's constant insistence on the energy they must both put forth.
The underlined words are: Would you believe," Mrs. Beale confidentially asked of her little charge, "that he says I'm a worse expense than ever, and that a daughter and a wife together are really more than he can afford?"