Define if the sentence is simple.
A) As regards this deviation
it was agreed between them that they were not in a position to bring it home to him.
B) Mrs. Wix was in dread of doing anything to make him, as she said, "worse"; and Maisie was sufficiently initiated to be able to reflect that in speaking to her as he had done he had only wished to be tender of Mrs. Beale.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) For Mrs. Beale certainly he was an
immense one--she speedily made known as much; but Mrs. Beale from this moment presented herself to Maisie as a person to whom a great gift had come.
B) The great gift was just for handling complications.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) It consisted of an odd unexpected shame at placing in an inferior light, to so perfect a gentleman and so charming a person as Sir Claude, so very near a relative as Mr. Farange.
B) She remembered, however, her friend's telling her that no one was seriously afraid of her father, and she turned round with a small toss of her head.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) It fell in with all her inclinations to think of him as tender, and she forbore to let him know that the two ladies had, as SHE would never do, betrayed him.
B) She had not long to keep her secret.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) Maisie felt how little she made of them when, after she had dropped to Sir Claude some recall of a previous meeting, he made answer, with a sound of consternation and yet an air of relief, that he had denied to their companion their having, since the day he came for her, seen each other till that moment.
B) She was flurried by the term with which he had qualified her gentle friend, but she took the occasion for one to which she must in every manner lend herself.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) Mrs. Beale had since their separation acquired a conspicuous right to it, and Maisie's first flush of response to her present delight coloured all her splendour with meanings that this time were sweet.
B) She had told Sir Claude she was afraid of the lady in the Regent's Park; but she had confidence enough to break on the spot, into the frankest appreciation.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) She saw while she watched and wondered that they took the direction of the Regent's Park; but she didn't know why he should make a mystery of that, and it was not till they passed under a pretty arch and drew up at a white house in a terrace from which the view, she thought, must be lovely that, mystified, she clutched him and broke out: "I shall see papa?"
B) Maisie glanced away over the apron of the cab--gazed a minute at the green expanse of the Regent's Park and, at this moment colouring to the roots of her hair, felt the full, hot rush of an emotion more mature than any she had yet known.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) Sir Claude smiled, but she noted that the violence with which she had just changed colour had brought into his own face a slight compunctious and embarrassed flush.
B) It was as if he had caught his first glimpse of her sense of responsibility.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) This was a perception on Maisie's part
that neither mamma, nor Sir Claude, nor Mrs. Wix, with their immense and so varied respective attractions, had exactly kindled, and that made an immediate difference when the talk, as it promptly did, began to turn to her father.
B) Oh yes, Mr. Farange was a complication, but she saw now that he wouldn't be one for his daughter.
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Define if the sentence is simple.
A) Well, the handsomest woman in London gave herself up, with tender lustrous looks and every demonstration of fondness, to a happiness at last clutched again.
B) There was almost as vivid a bloom in her maturity as in mamma's, and it took her but a short time to give her little friend an impression of positive power--an impression that seemed to
begin like a long bright day.
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Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
"It will be the right thing--if you feel as you've told me you feel." Mrs. Wix, sustained and uplifted, was now as clear as a bell.
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
"Supplies be hanged, my dear woman!" said their delightful friend. "Leave supplies to me--I'll take care of supplies."
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
If I've been an 'ipocrite it's the other way round: I've pretended, to him and to her, to myself
and to you and to every one, NOT to see! It serves me right to have held
my tongue before such horrors!"
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
It hung before Maisie, Mrs. Wix's way, like a glittering picture, and she clasped her hands in ecstasy. "Come along, come along, come along!"
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
It simply consisted of the proposal that whenever and wherever they should seek refuge Sir Claude should consent to share their asylum.
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
Mrs. Wix rose to it. "Well, it's exactly because I knew you'd be so glad to do so that I put the question before you. There's a way to look after us better than any other. The way's just to come along with us."
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
On his protesting with all the warmth in nature against this note of secession she asked what else in the world was left to them if her ladyship should stop supplies.
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
Sir Claude looked from his stepdaughter back to her governess. "Do you mean leave this house and take up my abode with you?"
Define what part of speech the underlined word is:
The principal one was startling, but Maisie appreciated the courage with which her governess
handled it.
Define what part of speech the underlined word is: Sir Claude on the morrow came
in to tea, and then the ideas were produced. It was extraordinary how the child's presence drew out their full strength.
Define what part of speech the underlined word is: That put the couple more than ever, in this troubled sea, in the same boat, so that with the consciousness of ideas on the part of her fellow
mariner Maisie could sit close and wait.
Fill in the gap: Mrs. Wix's bitterness, however, again overflowed. "He does, he does,"
she cried, "and it's that that's just the worst of it! They'll take you, they'll take you, and what ________ the world will then become of me?"
Fill in the gap: She threw herself afresh upon her pupil and wept __________ her with the
inevitable effect of causing the child's own tears to flow.
Fill in the gap: This conveyed a full appreciation of her peril, and it was in rejoinder
that Sir Claude uttered, acknowledging the source ___________ that peril, the
reassurance at which I have glanced. "
Fill in the gap: What turn it gave to their talk needn't here be recorded: the transition to
the colourless schoolroom and lonely Mrs. Wix was doubtless an effect ___________
relaxed interest in what was before them.
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word):
He was restored in great abundance, and it was marked that, though he appeared to have felt the need to take a stand against the risk of being too roughly saddled with the offspring of others, he
at this period exposed himself more than ever before to the presumption of having created expectations.
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word):
Here indeed was a slight ambiguity, as papa's being on Mrs. Beale's didn't somehow seem to place him quite on his daughter's.
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word):
If therefore Mrs. Wix was on Sir Claude's, her ladyship on Mr. Perriam's and Mr. Perriam presumably on her ladyship's, this left only Mrs. Beale and Mr. Farange to account for.
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word):
It sounded, as this young lady thought it over, very much like puss-in-the-corner, and she could only wonder if the distribution of parties would lead to a rushing to and fro and a changing of places.
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word):
She seemed to sit in her new dress and brood over her lost delicacy, which had become almost as doleful a memory as that of poor Clara Matilda.
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word):
That was the great thing that had domestically happened. Mrs. Wix, besides, had turned another face: she had never been exactly gay, but her gravity was now an attitude as public as a posted placard.
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word):
She was in the presence, she felt, of restless change: wasn't it restless enough that her mother and her stepfather should already be on different sides?
The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word): If it had become now, for that matter, a question of sides, there was at least a certain amount of evidence as to where they all were. Maisie of course, in such a delicate position, was on nobody's; but Sir Claude had
all the air of being on hers.
The underlined word is: "He has made from the first such a row about you," she said on one occasion to Maisie, "that I've told him to do for you himself and try how he likes it--see?
I've washed my hands of you; I've made you over to him; and if you're discontented it's on him, please, you'll come down.
The underlined word is: He appeared to accept the idea that he had taken her over and made her, as he said, his particular lark; he quite agreed also that he was an awful fraud and an
idle beast and a sorry dunce.
The underlined word is: He led one after all in the schoolroom, and there were hours of late
evening, when she had gone to bed, that Maisie knew he sat there talking with Mrs. Wix of how to meet his difficulties.
The underlined word is: He never came into the place without telling its occupants that they
were the nicest people in the house--a remark which always led them to say to each other "Mr. Perriam!" as loud as ever compressed lips and enlarged eyes could make them articulate.
The underlined word is: Her visits were as good as an outfit; her manner, as Mrs. Wix once said, as good as a pair of curtains; but she was a person addicted to extremes--sometimes barely
speaking to her child and sometimes pressing this tender shoot to a bosom cut, as Mrs. Wix had also observed, remarkably low.
The underlined word is: It threw him more and more at last into the schoolroom, where he
had plainly begun to recognise that if he was to have the credit of perverting the innocent child he might also at least have the amusement.
The underlined word is: She had phrases about him that were full of
easy understanding, yet full of morality.
The underlined word is: So don't haul poor ME up--I assure you I've worries enough." One of these, visibly, was that the spell rejoiced in by the schoolroom fire was already in danger
of breaking; another was that she was finally forced to make no secret of her husband's unfitness for real responsibilities.
The underlined word is: That had been proper to every one's station that she had yet encountered save poor Mrs. Wix's own, and the particular merit of Sir Claude had seemed precisely that he
was different from every one.
The underlined word is: The day came indeed when her breathless auditors learnt from her in bewilderment that what ailed him was that he was, alas, simply not serious. Maisie wept
on Mrs. Wix's bosom after hearing that Sir Claude was a butterfly; considering moreover that her governess but half-patched it up in coming out at various moments the next few days with the opinion that it was proper to his "station" to be careless and free.
The underlined word is: The life she wanted him to take right hold of was the public: "she"
being, I hasten to add, in this connexion, not the mistress of his fate, but only Mrs. Wix herself.
The underlined word is: This was the very moral of a scene that flashed into vividness one day
when the four happened to meet without company in the drawing-room and Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
The underlined word is: Unaccompanied, in subsequent hours, and with an effect of changing
to meet a change, Ida took a tone superficially disconcerting and abrupt--the tone of having, at an immense cost, made over everything to Sir Claude and wishing others to know that if everything wasn't right it was because Sir Claude was so dreadfully vague.
The underlined words are NOUNS:
A) "My dear lady, you exaggerate tremendously MY poor little needs."
B) Mrs. Wix had once mentioned to her young friend that when Sir Claude called her his dear lady he could do anything with her; and Maisie felt a certain anxiety to see what he would do now.
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The underlined words are NOUNS:
A) "You'll also have to remember," Mrs. Wix replied, "that if you don't look out your wife won't give you time to consider. Her ladyship will leave YOU."
B) "Ah my good friend, I do look out!" the young man returned while Maisie helped herself afresh to bread and butter.
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The underlined words are NOUNS:
A) Sir Claude had the air of trying to recall what he had told her; then the light broke that was always breaking to make his face more pleasant.
"It's your happy thought that I shall take a house for you?"
B) "For the wretched homeless child. Any roof--over OUR heads--will do for us; but of course for you it will have to be something really nice."
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The underlined words are NOUNS:
A) Sir Claude's eyes reverted to Maisie, rather hard, as she thought; and
there was a shade in his very smile that seemed to show her--though she also felt it didn't show Mrs. Wix--that the accommodation prescribed
must loom to him pretty large.
B) The next moment, however, he laughed gaily enough.
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The underlined words are NOUNS:
A) Well, he only
addressed her a remark of which the child herself was aware of feeling the force.
B) "Your plan appeals to me immensely; but of course--don't you see--I shall have to consider the position I put myself in by leaving my wife."
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The underlined words are VERBS:
A) "But it would have to be something that would hold us all," said Sir Claude.
B) "Oh yes," Mrs. Wix concurred; "the whole point's our being together.
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The underlined words are VERBS:
A) "Of course if that happens I
shall have somehow to turn round; but I hope with all my heart it won't.
I beg your pardon," he continued to his stepdaughter, "for appearing to discuss that sort of possibility under your sharp little nose. But the fact is I FORGET half the time that Ida's your sainted mother."
B) "So do I!" said Maisie, her mouth full of bread and butter and to put him the more in the right.
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The underlined words are VERBS:
A) Her protectress, at this, was upon her again. "The little desolate precious pet!"
B) For the rest of the conversation she was enclosed in Mrs.
Wix's arms, and as they sat there interlocked Sir Claude, before them
with his tea-cup, looked down at them in deepening thought.
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The underlined words are VERBS:
A) Shrink together as they might they couldn't help, Maisie felt, being a very large lumpish image of what Mrs. Wix required of his slim fineness.
B) She knew moreover that this lady didn't make it better by adding in a moment: "Of course we shouldn't dream of a whole house. Any sort of little lodging, however humble, would be only too blest."
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The underlined words are VERBS:
A) While you're waiting, before you act, for her ladyship to take some step, our position here will come to an impossible pass.
B) You don't know what I went through with her for you yesterday--and for our poor
darling; but it's not a thing I can promise you often to face again. She cast me out in horrible language--she has instructed the servants not to wait on me."
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The underlined words are: "Oh I dare say you'll see more of me than you've seen of Mrs. Beale.
It isn't in ME to be so beautifully discreet," Sir Claude said. "But all the same," he continued, "I leave the thing, now that we're here, absolutely WITH you. You must settle it. We'll only go in if you say so. If you don't say so we'll turn right round and drive away."
The underlined words are: It struck
her as a hundred years since she had seen Mrs. Beale, who was on the other side of the door they were so near and whom she yet had not taken the jump to clasp in her arms.
The underlined words are: Maisie could interpret at her leisure these ominous words. Her
reflexions indeed at this moment thickened apace, and one of them made her sure that her governess had conversations, private, earnest and not infrequent, with her denounced stepfather.
The underlined words are: She suddenly thrust the child away and, as a disgusted admission
of failure, sent her flying across the room into the arms of Mrs. Wix, whom at this moment and even in the whirl of her transit Maisie saw, very red, exchange a quick queer look with Sir Claude.
The underlined words are: Her father had once called her a heartless little beast,
and now, though decidedly scared, she was as stiff and cold as if the description had been just.
The underlined words are: She had in the old days once been told by Mrs. Beale that her very own were, and with the refreshment of knowing that she HAD affairs the information hadn't in
the least overwhelmed her.
The underlined words are: Taking the earliest opportunity to question Mrs. Wix
on this subject she elicited the remarkable reply: "Well, my dear, it's her ladyship's game, and we must just hold on like grim death."
The underlined words are: The things beyond her knowledge--numerous enough in
truth--had not hitherto, she believed, been the things that had been nearest to her: she had even had in the past a small smug conviction that in the domestic labyrinth she always kept the clue.
The underlined words are: “You hang about him in a way that's barely decent--he can do what he likes with you. Well then, let him, to his heart's content: he has been in such a hurry to take you
that we'll see if it suits him to keep you. I'm very good to break my heart about it when you've no more feeling for me than a clammy little fish!"
The underlined word is: It must not be supposed that her ladyship's intermissions were not
qualified by demonstrations of another order--triumphal entries and breathless pauses during which she seemed to take of everything in the room, from the state of the ceiling to that of her daughter's boot-toes, a survey that was rich in intentions.
Define what part of speech the underlined word is: What horrors they were her companion forbore too closely to enquire, showing even signs not a few of an ability to take them for granted.
Fill in the gap: "I mean that your mother lets me do what I want so long ________ I let her do what SHE wants."
Fill in the gap: But Maisie couldn't have told you if she had been crying ___________ the image of their separation or at that of Sir Claude's untruth.
Fill in the gap: Don't be afraid, my dear: I've squared her." It required indeed _________ supplement when he saw that it left the child momentarily blank.
Fill in the gap: It presently appeared, however, that his reference was merely to the affectation of admiring such ridiculous works--an admonition that she received ___________ him as submissively as she received everything.
Fill in the gap: Maisie expressed in her own way the truth that she never went home nowadays without expecting to find the temple _____________ her studies empty and the poor priestess cast out.
Fill in the gap: They represented, with patches of gold and cataracts of purple, with stiff saints and angular angels, with ugly Madonnas and uglier babies, strange prayers and prostrations; so that she at first took his words ______ a protest against devotional idolatry--all the more that he had of late often come with her and with Mrs. Wix to morning church, a place of worship of Mrs. Wix's own choosing, where there was nothing of that sort; no haloes on heads, but only, during long sermons, beguiling backs of bonnets, and where, as her governess always afterwards observed, he gave the most earnest attention.
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The underlined word is (define the syntactic function of the word): Mrs. Beale clearly was, like Sir Claude, on Maisie's, and papa, it was to be supposed, on Mrs. Beale's.
The underlined word is: "He leans on me--he leans on me!" she only announced from time to time; and she was more surprised than amused when, later on, she accidentally found she had given her pupil the impression of a support literally supplied by her person.
The underlined word is: "Ah but I want to see Mrs. Beale!" the child gently wailed.
The underlined word is: "But what if she does decide to take you? Then, you know, you'll have to remain."
The underlined word is: "He has taken you FROM me," she cried; "he has set you AGAINST me, and you've been won away and your horrid little mind has been poisoned! “
The underlined word is: "He's a wonderful nature, but he can't live like the lilies. He's all right, you know, but he must have a high interest."
The underlined word is: "It IS hard for him," she often said to her companion; and it was surprising how competent on this point Maisie was conscious of being to agree with her.
The underlined word is: "Well--I don't quite know about giving me up."
The underlined word is: Maisie turned it over. "Straight on--and give you up?"
The underlined word is: She usually broke in alone, but sometimes Sir Claude was with her, and during all the earlier period there was nothing on which these appearances had had so delightful a bearing as on the way her ladyship was, as Mrs. Wix expressed it, under the spell. "
The underlined word is: And he never said a word to her against her mother--he only remained dumb and discouraged in the face of her ladyship's own overtopping earnestness.
The underlined word is: But ISN'T she under it!" Maisie used in thoughtful but familiar reference to exclaim after Sir Claude had swept mamma away in peals of natural laughter.
The underlined word is: Hard as it was, however, Sir Claude had never shown to greater advantage than in the gallant generous sociable way he carried it off: a way that drew from Mrs. Wix a hundred expressions of relief at his not having suffered it to embitter him.
The underlined word is: He caused Maisie to remember what she had said to Mrs. Beale about his having the nature of a good nurse, and, rather more than she intended before Mrs. Wix, to bring the whole thing out by once remarking to him that none of her good nurses had smoked quite so much in the nursery.
The underlined word is: His consideration for this unfortunate woman even in the midst of them continued to show him as the perfect gentleman and lifted the subject of his courtesy into an upper air of beatitude in which her very pride had the hush of anxiety.
The underlined word is: Not even in the old days of the convulsed ladies had she heard mamma laugh so freely as in these moments of conjugal surrender, to the gaiety of which even a little girl could see she had at last a right--a little girl whose thoughtfulness was now all happy selfish meditation on good omens and future fun.
The underlined word is: She found so much to deplore that she left a great deal to expect, and bristled so with calculation that she seemed to scatter remedies and pledges.
The underlined word is: She talked with him, however, as time went on, very freely about her mother; being with him, in this relation, wholly without the fear that had kept her silent before her father—the fear of bearing tales and making bad things worse.
The underlined word is: She was always in a fearful hurry, and the lower the bosom was cut the more it was to be gathered she was wanted elsewhere.
The underlined word is: Sometimes she sat down and sometimes she surged about, but her attitude wore equally in either case the grand air of the practical.
The underlined word is: The connexion required that while she almost cradled the child in her arms Ida should speak of her as hideously, as fatally estranged, and should rail at Sir Claude as the cruel author of the outrage.
The underlined word is: There were occasions when he even spoke as if he had wrenched his little charge from the arms of a parent who had fought for her tooth and nail.
The underlined word is: This glimpse of a misconception led her to be explicit--to put before the child, with an air of mourning indeed for such a stoop to the common, that what they talked about in the small hours, as they said, was the question of his taking right hold of life.
The underlined word is: This had no more effect than it was meant to on his cigarettes: he was always smoking, but always declaring that it was death to him not to lead a domestic life.
The underlined words are: "I mean as I gave up Mrs. Beale when I last went to mamma's. I couldn't do without you here for anything like so long a time as that."
The underlined words are: "So in that case Mrs. Beale won't take me?"
The underlined words are: "Well--not by any act of ours." "And I shall be able to go on with mamma?" Maisie asked. "Oh I don't say that!"
The underlined words are: She perceived in the light of a second episode that something beyond her knowledge had taken place in the house.
The underlined words are: Full of charm at any rate was the prospect of some day getting Sir Claude in; especially after Mrs. Wix, as the fruit of more midnight colloquies, once went so far as to observe that she really believed it was all that was wanted to save him.
The underlined words are: It may indeed be said that these days brought on a high quickening of Maisie's direct perceptions, of her sense of freedom to make out things for herself.
The underlined words are: It was true and perhaps a little alarming that she had never heard of any such matters since then.
The underlined words are: She had more than once remarked that his affairs were sadly involved, but that they must get him--Maisie and she together apparently--into Parliament.
The underlined words are: She had not at the moment explained her ominous speech, but the light of remarkable events soon enabled her companion to read it.
The underlined words are: The impression of the look remained with her, confronting her with such a critical little view of her mother's explosion that she felt the less ashamed of herself for incurring the reproach with which she had been cast off.
The underlined words are: The child took it from her with a flutter of importance that Parliament was his natural sphere, and she was the less prepared to recognise a hindrance as she had never heard of any affairs whatever that were not involved.
The underlined words are: The child stared as at the jump of a kangaroo. "Save him from what?"
The underlined words are: This critic, with these words, struck her disciple as cropping up, after the manner of mamma when mamma talked, quite in a new place.
The underlined words are: “You've gone over to him, you've given yourself up to side against me and hate me. You never open your mouth to me—you know you don't; and you chatter to him like a dozen magpies. Don't lie about it--I hear you all over the place. “