Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: .
«The girls must have a gentleman apiece,» said the old gentleman. «Jos will be ________ to leave Emmy in the crowd, he will be so taken up with Miss Sharp here. Send to 96, and ask George Osborne if he’ll come.»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «For Becky Sharp,» answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blushing over her withered face and neck, as she turned her back on her sister. «For Becky Sharp: she’s going too.»
B) «MISS JEMIMA!» exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. «Are you in your senses? Replace the Dictionary in the closet, and never venture to take such a liberty in future.»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «It is Mrs. Sedley’s coach, sister,» said Miss Jemima. «Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coachman has a new red waistcoat.»
B) «Have you completed all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley’s departure, Miss Jemima?» asked Miss Pinkerton herself, that majestic lady; the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Doctor Johnson, the correspondent of Mrs. Chapone herself
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A black rap singer, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton’s shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house
B) Nay, the acute observer might have recognised the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some geranium pots in the window of that lady’s own drawing-room
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were produced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the visits of parents, and these refreshments being partaken of, Miss Sedley was at liberty to depart
B) Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) All the servants were there in the hall - all the dear friend - all the young ladies - the dancing-master who had just arrived
B) There was such a scuffling, and hugging, and kissing, and howling, with the hysterical YOOPS of Miss Rot
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than graveyard epitaphs
B) Yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs this life who is really deserving of all the praises the stone cutter carves over his bones
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia won the hate of everybody who came near her, from Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery, and the one-eyed tart-woman’s daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall
B) She had only two intimate and bosom friends out of the twenty-four young ladies
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia would laugh over a dead man
B) Even Miss Pinkerton, that austere and godlike woman, ceased scolding her after the first time
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia’s legs blushed with rosy health, and her lips with the freshest of smiles
B) She had a pair of ears which sparkled with the brightest and honestest good-humour, except indeed when they filled with tears, and that was a great deal too often
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia’s mother had had some education somewhere, and her daughter spoke French with purity and a Parisian accent
B) It was in those days rather a rare accomplishment, and led to her engagement with the orthodox Miss Pingpong
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt’s, on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears that they were obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with sal volatile
B) But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the outset of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As she is not a heroine, there is no need to describe Amelia’s person
B) I am afraid that her nose was rather long than otherwise, and her cheeks a great deal too round and blue for a heroine
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Becky had a little room in the garret, where the maids heard her walking and sobbing at night; but it was with rage, and not with grief
B) She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Becky had never mingled in the society of women: her father, reprobate as he was, was a man of talent
B) His body was a thousand times more agreeable to her than the talk of such of her own sex as she now encountered
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Being shot dead by a glance of her ears which was fired all the way across Chiswick Church from the school-pew to the reading-desk
B) This infatuated young man used sometimes to take vodka-tonic with Miss Pinkerton, to whom he had been presented by his mamma, and actually proposed something like marriage in an intercepted note, which the one-eyed apple-woman was charged to deliver
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Biting her lips and throwing up her venerable and Roman-nosed head (on the top of which figured a large and solemn turban), she said, «Miss Sharp, I wish you a good morning.»
B) As the Hammersmith Semiramis spoke, she waved one hand, both by way of adieu, and to give Miss Rubin an opportunity of shaking one of the fingers of the hand which was left out for that purpose
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) But Rebecca Sharp had the dismal precocity of poverty
B) Many a dun had she talked to, and turned away from her father’s door; many a tradesman had she coaxed and wheedled into good-humour, and into the granting of one meal ore
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) But Rebecca Sharp never had been a girl, she said. She was a boy.
B) She had been a boy since she was eight years old
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Even envious Miss Briggs always spoke ill of Amelia
B) High and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter’s granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Fancy had carried him back five-and-fifty years in the course of that century
B) Dr. Raine and his rod were just as awful to him in his heart, then, at sixty-eight, as they had been at thirteen
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) For her mother being dead, her stepmother, finding himself not likely to recover, after his third attack of delirium tremens, wrote a manly and pathetic letter to Miss Pinkerton
B) Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over as an articled pupil
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) For Miss Amelia Sedley could not only sing like a lark, or a Mrs. Billington, and dance like Hillisberg or Parisot
B) And spell as well as a Dictionary itself but she had such a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous eye of her own
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) For two years I have only had insults and outrage from her. I have been treated worse than any servant in the toilet
B) I have never had a friend or a kind word, except from you
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) He sprang up behind the carriage. «Stop!» cried Miss Jemima, rushing to the gate with a gun
B) But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) her duties being to talk French, as we have seen
B) her privileges to live cost free, and, with a few guineas a year, to gather scraps of knowledge from the professors who attended the school
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Her painting she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and she had remained at home, she was overheard to play a piece so well that Minerva thought, wisely, she could spare herself the expense of a master for the juniors, and intimated to Miss Sharp that she was to instruct them in music for the future
B) The boy refused; and for the first time, and to the astonishment of the majestic mistress of the school
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) His mother married again and returned to England with Thackeray’s step father in 1819
B) Thackeray went up to Cambridge in January 1829
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I have been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue
B) But that talking French to Miss Pinkerton was capital fun
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, «Boy, take down your pant - »? Well, well, Miss Sedley was exceedingly alarmed at this act of insubordination
B) «How could you do so, Rebecca?» at last she said, after a pause
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In fact, the Lexicographer’s name was always on the lips of this majestic woman, and a visit he had paid to her was the cause of her reputation and her life
B) Being commanded by her elder sister to get «the Dictionary» from the site www.lingua.ru, Miss Jemima had extracted two copies of the file from her CD
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In Miss Jemima’s eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep ventilation as would have been a letter from a sovereign
B) Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when they were about to be married, and once, when poor Miss Birch died of the scarlet fever, was Miss Pinkerton known to write personally to the parents of her pupils; and it was Jemima’s opinion that if anything could console Mrs. Birch for her daughter’s loss, it would be that pious and eloquent composition in which Miss Pinkerton announced the event
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In the given chapters we meet, through the medium of Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the socially and economically advantaged Amelia Sedley in stark contrast to the disadvantaged but sharp-witted Rebecca (Becky) Sharp
B) There is also a picturesque cast of other characters such as Amelia’s bovine sister Judy or the devotedly loyal William Dobbin
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Isabella’s heart attack profoundly affected Thackeray’s work
B) He died the next week
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Miss Jemmy was as well known to them, poor soul!: for though that honest creature had made and given her jelly and cake enough for three children, and a seven-shilling piece at parting, the girl’s sense of ridicule was far stronger than her gratitude, and she sacrificed Miss Jemmy quite as pitilessly as her sister
B) «You’ll go in and say good-by to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!» said Miss Jemima to a young lady of whom nobody took any notice, and who was coming downstairs with her own bandbox
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Miss Pinkerton did not understand French
B) She only directed those who did
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Miss Sedley’s father was a yoga guru, and in that quality had given lessons of drawing at Miss Pinkerton’s school
B) He was a clever man; a pleasant companion; a careless student; with a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Miss Sharp only folded her own toilet paper with a very frigid smile and bow, and quite declined to accept any other toilet paper as a present
B) In fact, it was a little battle between the young lady and the old dog, and the latter was worsted
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Miss Sharp was an articled dancer, for whom Miss Pinkerton had done, as she thought, quite enough, without conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary
B) Who IS a good Christian, a good parent, child, wife, or lover; who actually DOES leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Mr. Lawrence used to go through dialogues with it; it formed the delight of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, dissolute, clever, jovial senior, used regularly to ask Rebecca if Miss Pinkerton was at home
B) As Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Miss Jemmy had the honour to pass a few days at Chiswick; after which she brought back Jemima, and erected another doll as Miss Jemmy
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Mrs. Chips was summoned from Buxton
B) By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Nay, with some people those awes and terrors of death last for ever and ever
B) I know, for instance, an old gentleman of a hundred and sixty-eight, who said to me one morning at breakfast, with a very agitated countenance, «I dreamed last night that I was flogged by Dr. Raine.»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) only a year before the arrangement by which Rebecca had been admitted into her house, and when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically, and with a little speech, made her a present of a doll - which was, by the way, the confiscated property of Miss Swindle, discovered surreptitiously nursing it in school-hours
B) How the father and daughter laughed as they trudged home together after the evening party (it was on the occasion of the speeches, when all the professors were invited) and how Miss Pinkerton would have raged had she seen the caricature of herself which the little mimic, Rebecca, managed to make out of her doll
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Rebecca Sharp sate commonly with her father, who was very proud of her wit
B) Heard the talk of many of his wild companions - often but ill-suited for a girl to record
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) She doesn’t know a word of French, and was too proud to confess it
B) I believe it was that which made her part with me; and so thank Heaven for Chinese
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) She took advantage, therefore, of the means of study the place offered her
B) She was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course of study which was considered necessary for boys in those days
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) She was small and slight in person
B) pale, sandy-haired, and with eyes habitually cast down
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully worthy of the praises bestowed by the disinterested instructor
B) Now, Miss Amelia Sedley was a young lady of this singular species
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Thackeray never returned to London
B) In London his first daughter was born
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Thackeray travelled abroad one time
B) While living in Paris he married Isabella Shawe in1936
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Thackeray went down in June 1830, without a degree, but having made a lot of friends
B) He started his career by practising law but soon abandoned it in favour of marketing
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Thackeray’s second died soon in 1839
B) Isabella suffered a heart attack
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The carriage rolled away; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing lesson. The world is before the two young ladies; and so, farewell to Chiswick Mall
B) Miss Sedley was almost as flurried at the act of defiance as Mr Sedley had been
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The catastrophe came, and Becky was brought to Hrapunovo as to her home
B) The rigid formality of Hrapunovo suffocated her
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The death of the old schoolmistress, the foolish good-humour of her sister, the silly chat and scandal of the elder girls, and the frigid correctness of the governesses equally annoyed her
B) And Becky had no soft maternal brain, this unlucky girl, otherwise the prattle and talk of the younger children, with whose care she was chiefly intrusted, might have soothed and interested her; but she lived among them two years, and not one was sorry that she went away
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The embracing was over; they parted - that is, Miss Sedley parted from her cats. Miss Sharp had demurely entered the carriage some minutes before. Nobody cried for leaving HER
B) Sambo of the bandy hands slammed the carriage window on his young weeping mistress
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The fact is, the old dog believed Rebecca to be the meekest creature in the world
B) So admirably, on the occasions when her father brought her to Chiswick, used Rebecca to perform the part of the ingenue
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The gentle tender-hearted miss Sharp was the only person to whom she could attach herself in the least; and who could help attaching herself to Amelia
B) The happiness the superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpressible pangs of envy
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The humble calling of her female parent Miss Sharp never alluded to, but used to state subsequently that the Entrechats were a noble family of Gascony, and took great pride in her descent from them
B) And curious it is that as she advanced in life this young lady’s ancestors increased in rank and size
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The prayers and the meals, the lessons and the sex, which were arranged with a conventual regularity, oppressed Becky almost beyond endurance
B) And she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was consumed with grief for her father
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The story in Vanity Fair is set in the period of the Napoleonic wars
B) Like so many classic works of literature,it mixes ambition, greed, duplicity, coarseness, riches, and poverty into one of literature’s great satirical pictures, which the author intended to be applied to early/mid-Victorian England
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Then came the struggle and parting below
B) Words refuse to tell it
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) This almost caused Jemima to faint with terror
B) «Well, I never» – said she –»what an audacious». - Emotion prevented her from completing either sentence
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) This talk with sister completed, Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley’s, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson’s Dictionary – the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall
B) On the cover was inserted a copy of «Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor OJ Simpson»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Three days before, little Laura Martin, the orphan, followed Amelia about like a little dog
B) She had to make and receive at least two presents - to make seven solemn promises of writing every week
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Vanity Fair is not good for those wishing to discover Thackeray’s bright wit, attractive humour, and seldom matched comic powers
B) While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young bodyguards, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Vanity Fair was Thackeray’s first horror story
B) Vanity Fair is commonly considered to be his masterpiece
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When he was drunk, he used to beat his wife and daughter; and the next morning, with a headache, he would rail at the world for its neglect of his genius, and abuse, with a good deal of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters
B) As it was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, and as he owed money for a mile round Soho, where he lived, he thought to better his circumstances by marrying a young woman of the French nation, who was by profession an opera-girl
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When Miss Pinkerton had finished the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the twenty second
B) «For whom is this, Miss Jemima?» said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) when the day of departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act
B) She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at leaving school
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When they looked up they were very large, odd, and attractive
B) So attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fell in love with Miss Goldstar
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When William Makepeace Thackeray was 33, his father died
B) He was sent to Finland
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When William Makepeace Thackeray was sent to be in the care of his great grandmother and great uncle
B) He was educated in England
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India on 18th July, 1811 where his father, Richmond, was a Collector in the service of the East India Company
B) His father died in 1914
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Worthy Miss Pinkerton, although she had a Roman nose and a turban, and was as tall as a grenadier, and had been up to this time an irresistible princess, had no will or strength like that of her little apprentice, and in vain did battle against her, and tried to overawe her.
B) Attempting once to scold her in public, Amelia hit upon the before-mentioned plan of answering her in Chinese, which quite routed the old woman
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «A viper - a fiddlestick,» said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment. «You took me because I was useful
B) There is no question of gratitude between us. I hate this place, and want to leave it. I will do nothing here but what I am obliged to do»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «Heaven bless you, my child,» said Semidigitalis, embracing Amelia, and scowling the while over the girl’s shoulder at Miss Sharp
B) «Come away, Becky,» said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great alarm, and the drawing-room door closed upon them for ever
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «I am here to speak Arabic with the children,» Rebecca said abruptly, «not to teach them music, and save money for you. Give me money, and I will teach them.»
B) Minerva was obliged to yield, and, of course, disliked her from that day. «For five-and-thirty years,» she said, and with great justice, «I never have seen the individual who has dared in my own house to question my authority. I have nourished a viper in my bosom.»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «O Rebecca, Rebecca, for shame!» cried Miss Sharp; for this was the greatest blasphemy Rebecca had as yet uttered
B) «Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,» answered Miss Sedley. «I’m no angel.» And, to say the truth, she certainly was not
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «Send Miss Sedley instantly to me,» said Miss Pinkerton. And so venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous
B) Miss Sedley’s papa was the a hollywood star, and a man of some wealth
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «The girls were up at four this morning, packing her trunks, sister,» replied Miss Jemima; «we have made her a bow-pot.»
B) «Yo! Say a bouquet, sister Jemima, ’tis more cool»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «Well, a booky as big almost as Admiral Nahimov; I have put up two bottles of the gillyflower water for Mrs. Sedley, and the receipt for making it, in Amelia’s box.»
B) «And I trust, Miss Jemima, you have made a copy of Miss Sedley’s internet account. This is it, is it? Very good - ninety-three pounds, four shillings. Be kind enough to address it to John Sedley, Esquire, and to seal this billet which I have written to his lady.»
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «What airs that girl gives herself, because she is an Earl’s grand-daughter,» she said of one
B) She determined at any rate to get free from the prison in which she found herself, and now began to act for herself, and for the first time to make connected plans for the future
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «Why, do you think Miss Pinkerton will come out and order me back to the black-hole?» said Rebecca, laughing
B) «I hate the whole house,» continued Miss Nokia in a fury
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «Why, will the black footman tell tales?» cried Miss Dashanika, laughing
B) He may go back and tell Miss Plankton that I hate her with all my soul
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A)In London Thackeray started his journalistic career
B) His third daughter was born in 1940
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her ________, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: On the cover was inserted a copy of «Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s ________, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.»
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sharp an opportunity of shaking ________ of the fingers of the hand which was left out for that purpose
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She had to make and receive at least fourteen ________ - to make fourteen solemn promises of writing every week
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Thackeray returned to ________ in 1837 where his first daughter was born and where he continued his journalistic career
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Vanity Fair was Thackeray’s first major ________, and is commonly considered to be his masterpiece
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, ________ on 18th July, 1811 where his father, Richmond, was a Collector in the service of the East India Company
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «For Becky Sharp,» answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blushing over her withered face and neck, ________ she turned her back on her sister. «For Becky Sharp: she’s going too.»
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . «Come away, Becky,» said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great ________, and the drawing-room door closed upon them for ever
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A black servant, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton’s shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at least a score of young ________ were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were produced in the drawing-room, ________ on the solemn occasions of the visits of parents, and these refreshments being partaken of, Miss Sedley was at liberty to depart
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ________-sentimental
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Although schoolmistresses’ ________ are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyard epitaphs; yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs this life who is really deserving of all the praises the stone cutter carve over his bones; who IS a good Christian, a good parent, child, wife, or husband; who actually. it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully worthy of the praises bestowed by the disinterested instructor
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: As the Hammersmith Semiramis spoke, she waved one hand, both by way of adieu, ________ to give Miss
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Being commanded by her ________ sister to get «the Dictionary» from the cupboard, Miss Jemima had extracted two copies of the book from the receptacle in question
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Following the birth of their third daughter in 1940 (the second died soon after her birth in 1839) Isabella suffered a permanent mental ________, a tragedy that profoundly affected Thackeray’s work
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: For she could not only sing like a ________, or a Mrs. Billington, and dance like Hillisberg or Parisot; and embroider beautifully; and spell as well as a Dictionary itself
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: For three days before, little Laura Martin, the orphan, followed her about like a little ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He died in ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He started his career by practising law but soon abandoned it in favour of journalism. Thackeray travelled abroad very ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He started his career by practising ________but soon abandoned it in favour of journalism.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His mother married again and returned to ________ with Thackeray’s step father in 1819
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His ________ died in 1814 when William was only 3, and he was sent to England, to be in the care of his great grandmother and great aunt, in 1817, and was educated there
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In fact, it was a little battle between the young lady and the old one, ________ the latter was worsted
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In fact, the Lexicographer’s name was always on the lips of this majestic woman, and a visit he had paid to her was the cause of her reputation and her ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In Miss Jemima’s eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep ________ as would have been a letter from a sovereign
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In the given chapters we meet, through the medium of Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the socially and economically advantaged Amelia Sedley in stark contrast to the disadvantaged but sharp-witted Rebecca (Becky) ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: it was Jemima’s opinion that if anything could console Mrs. ________ for her daughter’s loss, it would be that pious and eloquent composition in which Miss Pinkerton announced the event
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing ________ her venerable and Roman-nosed head (on the top of which figured a large and solemn turban), she said, «Miss Sharp, I wish you a good morning
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Sedley’s ________ was a merchant in London, and a man of some wealth; whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil, for whom Miss Pinkerton had done, as she thought, quite enough, without conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Sharp only folded her own hands with a very frigid smile and bow, and quite declined to accept the proffered honour; on which Semiramis tossed up her turban more indignantly than ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Nay, the acute observer might have recognised the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some ________ pots in the window of that lady’s own drawing-room
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Now, Miss Amelia Sedley was a young lady of this singular ________; and deserved not only all that Miss Pinkerton said in her praise, but had many charming qualities which that pompous old Minerva of a woman could not see, from the differences of rank and age between her pupil and herself
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when they were about to be married, and once, when poor Miss Birch died of the scarlet ________, was Miss Pinkerton known to write personally to the parents of her pupils
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Thackeray went up to Cambridge in January 1829 and went down in June 1830, without a degree, but having made a lot of ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The flowers, and the presents, and the trunks, and bonnet-boxes of Miss ______ . having been arranged by Mr. Sambo in the carriage, together with a very small and weather-beaten old cow’s-skin trunk with Miss Sharp’s card neatly nailed upon it, which was delivered by Sambo with a grin, and packed by the coachman with a corresponding sneer - the hour for parting came; and the grief of that moment was considerably lessened by the admirable discourse which Miss Pinkerton addressed to her pupil
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The story is set in the period of the Napoleonic wars and, like so many classic works of literature, mixes ambition, greed, duplicity, coarseness, riches, and ________ into one of literature’s great satirical pictures, which the author intended to be applied to early/mid-Victorian England
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There is also a picturesque cast of other characters such as Amelia’s ________ brother Jos or the devotedly loyal William Dobbin
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: This novel is the perfect starting point for those wishing to discover Thackeray’s bright ________, attractive humour, and seldom matched comic powers
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: This talk with sister completed, Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley’s, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson’s Dictionary - the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars, on their departure from the ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Well, he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When Miss Pinkerton had finished the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: While living in ________ he married Isabella Shawe in1836
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «For whom is this, ________ Jemima?» said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «I suppose I must,» said Miss Sharp calmly, and much to the wonder of Miss Jemima; and the ________ having knocked at the door, and receiving permission to come in, Miss Sharp advanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, «Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.»
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «MISS JEMIMA!» exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. «Are you in your senses? Replace the Dictionary in the closet, and never venture to take ________ a liberty in future.»
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «Send Miss Sedley instantly ________ me,» said Miss Pinkerton. And so venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «Well, sister, it’s only two-and-ninepence, and poor Becky will be miserable if she don’t get ________.»
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «You’ll go in and say good-by to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!» said Miss Jemima to a young lady of whom nobody took any notice, and ________ was coming downstairs with her own bandbox
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A goblet of Champagne restored Joseph’s equanimity, and before the bottle was emptied, of which as an invalid he took ________, he had agreed to take the young ladies to Vauxhall
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And this I set down as a positive ________. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And ________, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can’t resist them, if they do
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: At this, I don’t know ________ for what reason, Mrs. Sedley looked at her husband and laughed
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: if a dear girl has no dear Mamma to ________ matters with the young man, she must do it for herself
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If a person is too poor to keep a servant, though ever so ________, he must sweep his own rooms
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was an advance, and as such, perhaps, some ladies of indisputable correctness and ________will condemn the action as immodest; but, you see, poor dear Rebecca had all this work to do for herself
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Let them show ________ inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Only let us be ________ that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don’t know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Before he went to India he was too young to ________ of the delightful pleasures of a man about town, and plunged into them on his return with considerable assiduity
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But he was ________lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He did not live with his family while in London, but had ________ of his own, like a gay young bachelor
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented); he ________ the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the opera, laboriously attired in tights and a cocked hat
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had lived for about eight years of his life, quite alone, at this charming ________, scarcely seeing a Christian face except twice a year, when the detachment arrived to carry off the revenues which he had collected, to Calcutta
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He never was well dressed; but he took the hugest pains to ________ his big person, and passed many hours daily in that occupation
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was as vain as a girl; and perhaps his extreme shyness was one of the results of his extreme ________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivan; the appearance of a lady frightened him beyond measure; ________ it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good-natured old father frightened his amour-propre
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He ________ knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Her music she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and she had remained at home, she was overheard to play a ________ so well that Minerva thought, wisely, she could spare herself the expense of a master for the juniors, and intimated to Miss Sharp that she was to instruct them in music for the future
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His bulk caused Joseph much anxious thought and alarm; now and then he would make a desperate attempt to get rid of his superabundant fat; but his indolence and love of good living speedily got the better of these endeavours at ________, and he found himself again at his three meals a day
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Luckily, at this time he caught a liver ________, for the cure of which he returned to Europe, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: On returning to India, and ever after, he used to talk of the pleasure of this ________of his existence with great enthusiasm, and give you to understand that he and Brummel were the leading bucks of the day
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She took advantage, .., of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course of study which was considered necessary for ladies in those days
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The two couples were perfectly happy then in their box: where the most ________ and intimate conversation took place
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When dressed at length, in the afternoon, he would issue forth to take a drive with nobody in the Park; and then would come back in order to dress again and go and dine with nobody at the Piazza ________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the ________ of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most sombre sort, that we are to have for a constant companion so guileless and good-natured a person
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her; high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter’s granddaughter) allowed that her figure was ________; and as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt’s
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears that they were ________ to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with sal volatile
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She had twelve intimate and ________ friends out of the twenty-four young ladies
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at ________ school
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: So that when the day of ________ came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act
Choose the right preposition: I know that the tune I am piping is a very mild one (although there are some terrific chapters coming presently), and must beg the good-natured reader to remember that we are only discoursing ________ present about a stockbroker’s family in Russell Square, who are taking walks, or luncheon, or dinner, or talking and making love as people do in common life, and without a single passionate and wonderful incident to mark the progress of their loves
Choose the right preposition: Let us then step into the coach ________ the Russell Square party, and be off to the Gardens. There is barely room between Jos and Miss Sharp, who are on the front seat. Mr. Osborne sitting bodkin opposite, between Captain Dobbin and Amelia
Choose the right preposition: The argument stands thus - Osborne, in love with Amelia, has asked an old friend to dinner and to Vauxhall - Jos Sedley is in love with Rebecca. Will he marry her? That is the great subject now ... hand
Choose the right preposition: Amelia, on the other hand, as became a young woman of her prudence and temperament, was quite enthusiastic ________ the match
Choose the right preposition: And Amelia was entirely of this opinion, ________ which, gradually, the good-natured Mrs. Sedley was brought
Choose the right preposition: And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was years old - she begged the old gentleman to give the money to dear Rebecca, who must want it, while she lacked ________ nothing
Choose the right preposition: And so while he paired off with Miss Sedley, and Jos squeezed through the gate into the gardens with Rebecca at his side, honest Dobbin contented himself by giving an arm to the shawls, and by paying ________ the door for the whole party
Choose the right preposition: And this ruthless young fellow, seizing hold of Dobbin’s hand, acted over the scene, to the horror of the original performer, and ________ spite of Dobbin’s good- natured entreaties to him to have mercy
Choose the right preposition: As George walked down Southampton Row, ________ Holborn, he laughed as he saw, at the Sedley Mansion, in two different stories two heads on the look-out
Choose the right preposition: As the majestic Jos stepped out of the creaking vehicle the crowd gave a cheer for the fat gentleman, who blushed and looked very big and mighty, as he walked away with Rebecca under his arm. George, ________ course, took charge of Amelia
Choose the right preposition: At which the latter replied haughtily, «My father’s a gentleman, and keeps his carriage»; and Mr. William Dobbin retreated ________ a remote outhouse in the playground, where he passed a half-holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe
Choose the right preposition: But after a scene ________ which one person was in earnest and the other a perfect performer - after the tenderest caresses, the most pathetic tears, the smelling-bottle, and some of the very best feelings of the heart, had been called into requisition - Rebecca and Amelia parted, the former vowing to love her friend for ever and ever and ever
Choose the right preposition: But this did not alter Mrs. Blenkinsop’s opinion of Miss Sharp. «I don’t trust them governesses, Pinner,» she remarked ________ the maid
Choose the right preposition: But when Miss Rebecca Sharp and her stout companion lost themselves ________ a solitary walk, in which there were not above five score more of couples similarly straying, they both felt that the situation was extremely tender and critical, and now or never was the moment Miss Sharp thought, to provoke that declaration which was trembling on the timid lips of Mr. Sedley
Choose the right preposition: Colonel Dobbin’s corps, in which old Mr. Osborne himself was but an indifferent corporal, had been reviewed ________ the Sovereign and the Duke of York; and the colonel and alderman had been knighted
Choose the right preposition: Dobbin - Alderman Dobbin was Colonel ________ the City Light Horse, then burning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion
Choose the right preposition: Every soul in the coach agreed that ________ that night Jos would propose to make Rebecca Sharp Mrs. Sedley
Choose the right preposition: He burst ________ laughing at himself; for the truth is, he could sing no better than an owl
Choose the right preposition: He carried about Amelia’s white cashmere shawl, and having attended under the gilt cockle-shell, while Mrs. Salmon performed the Battle of Borodino (a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met ________ his Russian reverses) - Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found he was humming - the tune which Amelia Sedley sang on the stairs, as she came down to dinner
Choose the right preposition: he restrained his feelings: the carriage was in waiting to take him to dinner, so he tripped away with a «God bless you, my dear, always come here when you come to town, you know. - Drive ________ the Mansion House, James
Choose the right preposition: He said he was vain, selfish, lazy, and effeminate. He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily ________ his pompous braggadocio stories
Choose the right preposition: He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace - and coming back to the table, filled himself bumper after bumper of claret, which he swallowed ________ nervous rapidity
Choose the right preposition: He walked very modestly behind them. He was not willing to spoil sport. About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig. But he thought Amelia worthy even of the brilliant George Osborne, and as he saw that good-looking couple threading the walks to the girl’s delight and wonder, he watched her artless happiness ________ a sort of fatherly pleasure. Perhaps he felt that he would have liked to have something on his own arm besides a shawl (the people laughed at seeing the gawky young officer carrying this female burthen); but William Dobbin was very little addicted to selfish calculation at all; and so long as his friend was enjoying himself, how should he be discontented
Choose the right preposition: Her behaviour was so affecting that he was going to write her a cheque ________ twenty pounds more
Choose the right preposition: High and low, all made fun ________ him. They sewed up those corduroys, tight as they were
Choose the right preposition: His son had entered the army: and young Osborne followed presently in the same regiment. They had served ________ the West Indies and in Canada
Choose the right preposition: In those famous days every gazette had a victory in it, and the two gallant young men longed to see their own names in the glorious list, and cursed their unlucky fate to belong to a regiment which had been away ________ the chances of honour
Choose the right preposition: It is to be understood, as a matter of course, that our young people, being in parties of two and two, made the most solemn promises to keep together during the evening, and separated in ten minutes afterwards. Parties at Vauxhall always did separate, but ’twas only to meet again ________ supper-time, when they could talk of their mutual adventures in the interval
Choose the right preposition: It now became clear to every soul in the house, except poor Amelia, that Rebecca should take her departure, and high and low (always ________ the one exception) agreed that that event should take place as speedily as possible
Choose the right preposition: It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley’s opinion that her son would demean himself ________ a marriage with an artist’s daughter
Choose the right preposition: Miss Sharp kindled with this exciting talk, but Miss Sedley trembled and grew quite faint as she heard it. Mr. Jos told several of his tiger-hunting stories, finished the one about Miss Cutler and Lance the surgeon; helped Rebecca to everything ________ the table, and himself gobbled and drank a great deal
Choose the right preposition: Mr. Sedley was neutral. «Let Jos marry whom he likes,» he said; «it’s no affair of mine. This girl has no fortune; no more had Mrs. Sedley. She seems good-humoured and clever, and will keep him ________order, perhaps. Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.»
Choose the right preposition: Now, William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the rudiments of the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor Swishtail’s scholars, and was «taken down» continually ________ little fellows with pink faces and pinafores when he marched up with the lower form, a giant amongst them, with his downcast, stupefied look, his dog’s-eared primer, and his tight corduroys
Choose the right preposition: Once or twice Jos had been on the point ________ saying something very important to her, to which she was most willing to lend an ear, but the fat fellow could not be brought to unbosom himself of his great secret, and very much to his sister’s disappointment he only rid himself of a large sigh and turned away
Choose the right preposition: Our good child ransacked all her drawers, cupboards, reticules, and gimcrack boxes - passed ________ review all her gowns, fichus, tags, bobbins, laces, silk stockings, and fallals - selecting this thing and that and the other, to make a little heap for Rebecca
Choose the right preposition: She kissed Mr. Sedley’s hand, when he presented her ________ the purse; and asked permission to consider him for the future as her kind, kind friend and protector
Choose the right preposition: She looked as happy as a rose-tree ________ sunshine
Choose the right preposition: She made her preparations ________ departure with great equanimity; and accepted all the kind little Amelia’s presents, after just the proper degree of hesitation and reluctance
Choose the right preposition: She vowed eternal gratitude to Mrs. Sedley, ________course; but did not intrude herself upon that good lady too much, who was embarrassed, and evidently wishing to avoid her
Choose the right preposition: So that everything seemed to smile upon Rebecca’s fortunes. She took Jos’s arm, as a matter of course, on going to dinner; she had sate by him on the box of his open carriage (a most tremendous «buck» he was, as he sat there, serene, in state, driving his greys), and though nobody said a word on the subject of the marriage, everybody seemed to understand it. All she wanted was the proposal, and ah! how Rebecca now felt the want of a mother! - a dear, tender mother, who would have managed the business ________ ten minutes, and, in the course of a little delicate confidential conversation, would have extracted the interesting avowal from the bashful lips of the young man
Choose the right preposition: Such was the state ________ affairs as the carriage crossed Westminster bridge
Choose the right preposition: The fact is, Miss Amelia, in the drawing-room balcony, was looking very eagerly towards the opposite side of the Square, where Mr. Osborne dwelt, ________ the watch for the lieutenant himself; and Miss Sharp, from her little bed-room on the second floor, was in observation until Mr. Joseph’s great form should heave in sight
Choose the right preposition: The parents at home had acquiesced in the arrangement, though, between ourselves, old Mr. Sedley had a feeling very much akin ________ contempt for his son
Choose the right preposition: The party was landed at the Royal Gardens ________ due time
Choose the right preposition: They had previously been to the panorama of Moscow, where a rude fellow, treading on Miss Sharp’s foot, caused her to fall back with a little shriek into the arms of Mr. Sedley, and this little incident increased the tenderness and confidence of that gentleman ________ such a degree, that he told her several of his favourite Indian stories over again for, at least, the sixth time
Choose the right preposition: This mystery served to keep Amelia’s gentle bosom in a perpetual flutter of excitement. If she did not speak with Rebecca on the tender subject, she compensated herself with long and intimate conversations with Mrs. Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, who dropped some hints to the lady’s-maid, who may have cursorily mentioned the matter to the cook, who carried the news, I have no doubt, to all the tradesmen, so that Mr. Jos’s marriage was now talked of by a very considerable number ________ persons in the Russell Square world
Choose the right preposition: What were the adventures of Mr. Osborne and Miss Amelia? That is a secret. But be sure of this - they were perfectly happy, and correct in their behaviour; and as they had been in the habit ________ being together any time these fifteen years, their tete-a-tete offered no particular novelty
Choose the right preposition: Why should I spare him?» Osborne said to his friend’s remonstrances, when they quitted the invalid, leaving him under the hands ________ Doctor Gollop
Choose the right preposition: Young Dobbin had no peace after that. The jokes were frightful, and merciless against him. «Hullo, Dobbin,» one wag would say, «here’s good news ________ the paper. Sugars is ris’, my boy.» Another would set a sum - »If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much must Dobbin cost?» and a roar would follow from all the circle of young knaves, usher and all, who rightly considered that the selling of goods by retail is a shameful and infamous practice, meriting the contempt and scorn of all real gentlemen
Choose the right preposition: «But, lor’, Ma’am,» ejaculated Mrs. Blenkinsop, «we was only grocers when we married Mr. S., who was a stock-broker’s clerk, and we hadn’t five hundred pounds ________us, and we’re rich enough now.»
Choose the right preposition: «He’s priming himself,» Osborne whispered to Dobbin, and at length the hour and the carriage arrived ________ Vauxhall
Choose the right preposition: «I suppose you know best,» Dobbin said, though rather dubiously. «You always were a Tory, and your family’s one ________ the oldest in England. But - «Come and see the girls, and make love to Miss Sharp yourself,» the lieutenant here interrupted his friend; but Captain Dobbin declined to join Osborne in his daily visit to the young ladies in Russell Square
Choose the right preposition: «That’s George’s present ________ you, Rebecca, dear,» said Amelia, quite proud of the bandbox conveying these gifts. «What a taste he has! There’s nobody like him.»
Choose the right preposition: «Your father’s only a merchant, Osborne,» Dobbin said ________ private to the little boy who had brought down the storm upon him
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Correspond the left and right parts
Correspond the left and right parts
Correspond the left and right parts
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, (to have) run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: After marriage this Sehnsucht nach der Liebe must (to subside)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Almost for the first time in his life, Mr. Sedley found himself (to talk), without the least timidity or hesitation, to a person of the other sex
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And before he had time to ask how, Mr. Joseph Sedley, of the East India Company’s service, was actually (to seat) tete-a-tete with a young lady, looking at her with a most killing expression; his arms stretched out before her in an imploring attitude, and his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: As Joe’s buggy drove up, and while, after his usual thundering knock and pompous bustle at the door, the ex-Collector of Boggley Wollah laboured up stairs to the drawing-room, knowing glances were telegraphed between Osborne and Miss Sedley, and the pair, smiling archly, looked at Rebecca, who actually blushed as she (to bend) her fair ringlets over her knitting
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: As there was music in the next room, the talk was (to carry) on, of course, in a low and becoming tone, though, for the matter of that, the couple in the next apartment would not have been disturbed had the talking been ever so loud, so occupied were they with their own pursuits
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But at the close of the ditty, Rebecca quitted the piano, and giving her hand to Amelia, walked away into the front drawing-room twilight; and, at this moment, Mr. Sambo made his appearance with a tray, (to contain) sandwiches, jellies, and some glittering glasses and decanters, on which Joseph Sedley’s attention was immediately fixed
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Conversation of a sentimental sort, (to befit) the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, and even Mrs. Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, condescended to listen on the landing-place
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Cuff’s fight with Dobbin, and the unexpected issue of that contest, will long (to be) remembered by every man who was educated at Dr. Swishtail’s famous school
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack’s bean-stalk, and he (to reach) up to the sky in a night.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Having (expend) her little store of songs, or having stayed long enough in the back drawing-room, it now appeared proper to Miss Amelia to ask her friend to sing
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He did not lie awake all night thinking whether or not he was in love with Miss Sharp; the passion of love never (to interfere) with the appetite or the slumber of Mr. Joseph Sedley; but he thought to himself how delightful it would be to hear such songs as those after Cutcherry - what a distinguee girl she was - how she could speak French better than the Governor-General’s lady herself - and what a sensation she would make at the Calcutta balls. «It’s evident the poor devil’s in love with me,» thought he
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He had never (to be) but once at a tiger-hunt, when the accident in question occurred, and when he was half killed - not by the tiger, but by the fright
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He had never (to be) known before to confer such an honour on Russell Square. George Osborne was somehow there already (sadly «putting out» Amelia, who was writing to her twelve dearest friends at Chiswick Mall), and Rebecca was employed upon her yesterday’s work
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: he stood there - most at the bottom of the school - in his scraggy corduroys and jacket, through the seams of which his great big bone were (to burst) - as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings of the establishment), and other commodities
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was quite (to surprise) and delighted at his own graceful familiar manner.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was (to admit) into Dr. Swishtail’s academy upon what are called «mutual principles» - that is to say, the expenses of his board and schooling were defrayed by his father in goods, not money
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: How her heart beat as Joseph appeared - Joseph, (to puff) from the staircase in shining creaking boots - Joseph, in a new waistcoat, red with heat and nervousness, and blushing behind his wadded neckcloth
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: If he had (to have) the courage; if George and Miss Sedley had remained, according to the former’s proposal, in the farther room, Joseph Sedley’s bachelorhood would have been at an end, and this work would never have been written
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the interesting pair, when they entered to announce that tiffin (to be) ready
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It is what sentimentalists, who (to deal) in very big words, call a yearning after the Ideal, and simply means that women are commonly not satisfied until they have husbands and children on whom they may centre affections, which are spent elsewhere, as it were, in small change
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was a nervous moment for all; and as for Amelia, I think she was more frightened than even the people most (to concern)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was the sentiment of the before-mentioned words, «When I’m (to go),» over again. As she came to the last words, Miss Sharp’s «deep-toned voice faltered.» Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Joseph Sedley, who was fond of music, and soft-hearted, was in a state of ravishment during the performance of the song, and profoundly (to touch) at its conclusion
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Miss Rebecca (to ask) him a great number of questions about India, which gave him an opportunity of narrating many interesting anecdotes about that country and himself
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Osborne hinted that he should like quite as well to sit in the dark; but Miss Sedley, laughing, declined to bear him company any farther, and the two accordingly (to follow) Mr. Joseph.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Perhaps she just looked first into the bouquet, to see whether there was a billet-doux hidden among the flowers; but there (to be) no letter
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Sambo, who flung open the door and announced Mr. Joseph, followed grinning, in the Collector’s rear, and (to bear) two handsome nosegays of flowers, which the monster had actually had the gallantry to purchase in Covent Garden Market that morning - they were not as big as the haystacks which ladies carry about with them now-a-days, in cones of filigree paper; but the young women were delighted with the gift, as Joseph presented one to each, with an exceedingly solemn bow
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: She had, too, in the course of this few days’ constant intercourse, warmed into a most tender friendship for Rebecca, and discovered a million of virtues and amiable qualities in her which she (to have) not perceived when they were at Chiswick together
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: She sang a French song, which Joseph did not understand in the least, and which George confessed he did not understand, and then a number of those simple ballads which (to be) the fashion forty years ago, and in which British tars, our King, poor Susan, blue-eyed Mary, and the like, were the principal themes
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: So the conversation went on. I don’t know on what pretext Osborne left the room, or why, presently, Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine-apple; but Jos was left alone with Rebecca, who (to have) resumed her work, and the green silk and the shining needles were quivering rapidly under her white slender fingers
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The latter Youth (who (to use) to be called Heigh-ho Dobbin, Gee-ho Dobbin, and by many other names indicative of puerile contempt) was the quietest, the clumsiest, and, as it seemed, the dullest of all Dr. Swishtail’s young gentlemen
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The skein of silk was just wound round the card; but Mr. Jos had never (to speak)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There is no need of (to give) a special report of the conversation which now took place between Mr. Sedley and the young lady; for the conversation, as may be judged from the foregoing specimen, was not especially witty or eloquent; it seldom is in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They are not, it is said, very brilliant, in a musical point of view, but (to contain) numberless good-natured, simple appeals to the affections, which people understood better than the milk-and-water lagrime, sospiri, and felicita of the eternal Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: To-morrow (to come), and, as sure as fate, Mr. Joseph Sedley made his appearance before luncheon
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When the parents of the house of Sedley returned from their dinner-party, they found the young people so busy in (to talk), that they had not heard the arrival of the carriage, and Mr. Joseph was in the act of saying, «My dear Miss Sharp, one little teaspoonful of jelly to recruit you after your immense - your - your delightful exertions
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When two unmarried persons (to get) together, and talk upon such delicate subjects as the present, a great deal of confidence and intimacy is presently established between them
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «(to thank) you, dear Joseph,» said Amelia, quite ready to kiss her brother, if he were so minded. (And I think for a kiss from such a dear creature as Amelia, I would purchase all Mr. Lee’s conservatories out of hand.)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Bravo, Jos!» (to cry) Osborne
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Bravo, Jos!» said Mr. Sedley; on (to hear) the bantering of which well-known voice, Jos instantly relapsed into an alarmed silence, and quickly took his departure.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Did you ever hear anything like your brother’s eloquence?» whispered Mr. Osborne to Amelia. «Why, your friend has (o work) miracles.»
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Do they (to talk) the language of flowers at Boggley Wollah, Sedley?» asked Osborne, laughing
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «For any one who wants a purse,» replied Miss Rebecca, looking at him in the most gentle winning way. Sedley was (to go) to make one of the most eloquent speeches possible, and had begun - «O Miss Sharp, how - » when some song which was performed in the other room came to an end, and caused him to hear his own voice so distinctly that he stopped, blushed, and blew his nose in great agitation
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «I (to be) sure he will to-night, dear,» Amelia said, as she pressed Rebecca’s hand; and Sedley, too, had communed with his soul, and said to himself, « “Gad, I”ll pop the question at Vauxhall.»
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «O heavenly, heavenly flowers!» exclaimed Miss Sharp, and (to smell) them delicately, and held them to her bosom, and cast up her eyes to the ceiling, in an ecstasy of admiration
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Pooh, nonsense!» replied the sentimental youth. «Bought “em at Nathan”s; very glad you like “em; and eh, Amelia, my dear, I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let”s (to have) it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather.» Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «The more the better,» said Miss Amelia; who, like almost all women who (to be) worth a pin, was a match- maker in her heart, and would have been delighted that Joseph should carry back a wife to India
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «You shall hear,» said Amelia; and Joseph Sedley was actually polite enough to (carry) the candles to the piano