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The Stolen ac s and other
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Английский клуб Украденная бацилла
и другие приключенческие рассказы
Книга для чтения на английском языке
в старших классах среДних школ, лицеях, гимназиях, на I—II курсах неязыковых вузов
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2008
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У45

Адаптация
текста, словарь: Г. К. МагиДсон-Степанова
Упражнения: Г. И. БарДина
Серия «Английский
клуб» включает книги и учебные пособия, рассчитанные на пять этапов изучения
английского языка: Elementary (для начинающих), Ртеlntermediate (для
продолжающих первого уровня), Intermediate (для продолжающих второго уровня),
Upper Intermediate (для продолжающих третьего уровня) и Advanced (для
совершенствующихся).
Серийное оформление А. М. шагового
Украденная
бацилла и другие приключенческие рассказы У45 [The Stolen Bacillus and other
adventure stories / адаптация текста, словарь Г. К. Магидсон-Степановой;
упражнения Г. И. Бардиной]. — М.: Айрис-пресс, 2008. — 160 с.: ил. (Английский
клуб). — (Домашнее чтение).
ISBN
978-5-8112-3190-4
Сборник приключенческих и детективных рассказов
содержит произведения английских и американских писателей XIX—XX веков в
адаптащи Г. К. Магидсон-Степановой. Книга рассчктана на учащихся старших
классов средних школ, лицеев, гимназий, студентов [—ll курсов неязыковых вузов.
После каждого рассказа приводятся упражнения, направленные на овладение
лексикой, грамматикой и развитие навыков общения. Книга содержит словарь.
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ТНЕ ADVENTURE
OF ТНЕ THREE STUDENTS
[п 1895 Мг Sherlock Holmes and spent some weeks in опе ofour great
University towns. lt was during this timel that the facts which ат going to
tell,you about took place.2
Опе evening we
received а visit йот а certain Мг Hilton Soames, а lecturer at the College of
St. Luke's.3 Мг Soames was so excited that it was clear that something very
unusual had happened.
hope, Мг.
Holmes,” he said, ”that уои сап give те а few hours of your time. А very
unpleasant thing has taken place at our college and don't know what to do.”
it was during
this time — как раз в это время (эмфатическая конструкция)
2 to take place — произойти з College
of St. Luke's ['seint 'lu:ks] — Колледж святого Луки
з
03HaK0MwreAbHa¶
"I am very' busy
just now," my friend answered. "Could you call the police?"
"No, no, my dear sir, that
is absolutely impossible. It isjust one of these cases when it
is quite necessary to avoid scandal. I am sure you will keep our secret. You
are the only man in the world who can help me. I beg you, Mr. Holmes, to do
what you can. '
Holmes agreed, though very unwillingly,
and our visitor began his stow.
'I must explain to you,
Mr. Holmes," he said, "that tomorrow is the first day ofthe
examination for the Fortescue Scholarship. I I am one ofthe examiners. My
subject is Greek. The first ofthe examination papers consists of a piece of
Greek translation which the candidates for the scholarship have not seen
before. Of course, every candidate would be happy if he could see it before the
examination and prepare it in advance? So much care is taken to keep it secret.
"Today at about three
o'clock I was reading the proofs of the examination papers. At four-thirty I
went out to take tea in a friend's room, and I left the papers upon my desk. I
was absent a little more than an hour.
"When I approached my door,
I was surprised to see a key in it. For a moment I thought I had left my
own key there. But when I put my hand in my pocket, I found the key in it. The
other key to my room belonged to my servant, Bannister, who has been looking
after my room for ten years. I am absolutely sure ofhis honesty. I understood
that he had entered my room to ask if I wanted tea. When he saw I was not
there, he went out and very carelessly left the key in the door.
"The moment I looked at my
table I knew that someone had touched the examination papers. There were three
pages to it. I had left them all together. Now I found that one of them was
lying on the floor; one was on a small table near the window; and the third was
where I had left it on my desk. "
Holmes spoke for the first time.
"The first page on the floor, the
second near the wiñdow, and the third where you left it, " he
repeated.
"Exactly, Mr.
Holmes. But how could you know that?" ' Please, continue your very
interesting story.
      the Fortescue [ '      Scholarship — CTHneHAHH VfMeHH OOPRCKbYO
2 in
advance — 3apaHee
4
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"I did not know what to think.
Bannister said he had not touched my papers and I am sure he speaks the truth.
Then I thought that some student passing by my door had noticed the key in it.
Knowing that I was out, he had entered to look at the papers. The Fortescue
Scholarship is a large sum of money, so the student was ready to run a risk in
order to get it.
"Bannister was very much upset by
the incident. He nearly fainted when I told him that someone had touched the
examination papers. I gave him a little brandy and left him in a chair while I
made a most careful examinationl of the room. I soon saw other traces of the
man who had been in my room. Evidently the man had copied the paper in a great
hurry. My writing table is quite new and I found a cut on it about three inches
long. Not only this, but on the table I found a small black ball ofsomething
like clay or earth, and some sawdust.
I am sure that these marks were left by the man who had
touched the examination papers. But there were no traces of his footsteps. I
didn't know what to do next, when suddenly the happy thought came into my head
that you were in the town. So I came straight to you to put the matter into
your hands.2 Do help me,3 Mr. Holmes! You see my dilemma. Either I must find
the man, or4 the examination must be put off until new papers are prepared. But
this cannot be done without explanations and a terrible scandal will follow.
This will throw a cloud5 not only on the college but on the University. "
'l shall be happy to look into this
matter6 and give as much help as I can, " said Holmes rising and putting
on his overcoat. "The case is not without interest. 7 Did anyone visit you
in your room after the papers had come to you?"

 I made a most careful examination — q np0H3BeJ1 caMb1M TUIaTeJ1bHb1V1
OCMOTP
2
to put the matter
into your hands — npeaocTaBHTb BaM 3aHflTbCH 3THM
3
do help me — (Tao
noMorwe xe MHe (ecn0Moeame.ThHb1ù anaeoa do ynompeõaeH ðJIR
ycu,qeHl.lH npocúbl)
4
either I must
find the man, or— JIVf60 H AOJIXeH HañTH BVfHOBHHKa,
Jilõo
 5 to throw a cloud — 6pocaTb TeHb
6
to look into this
matter — 3aHflTbCH 3THM
7
The case i' not
without interest. — Lleno AOBOJ1bHO MHTepeCHoe.
5

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"Yes, " said Mr. Soames. "Young Daulat Ras,
an Indian student"théll, " said Holmes laughing, "ifthere
is nothing to be learned who lives on the same floor, came over to ask me a
question abouthere,l we had better go inside, 2" some details of the
examination. "The lecturer unlocked his door and we went in.
"The examination which he is going to take?""Your
servant seems to have felt better,3" said Holmes. " He is

"Yes. 'not here. You left him in a chair, you say.
Which chair?"

         "And
the papers were on your table?"         " By the window over there.
"

          "Yes,
but as far as I remembêr, they were rolled up. 'I see. Near this
little table. Of course, what has happened is
           "Did
anyone else come to your room?"            quite clear. The man entered
and took the papers, page by page, from

          "No. your
writing-table. He carried them over to the window table, because
"Did anyone know that the papers would be there?"
from there he could see if you came across the courtyard. " "No
one.'   "He couldn't see me," said
Soames, "for I entered by the side
          " Did this man Bannister know?"                                            door.
"
          "No,
certainly not. No one knew. "  "Ah, that's good," said Holmes.
''Véll, he carried the first page
          "Where
is Bannister now?" over to the window and copied it. Then he threw it down
and took
"He was very ill,
poor man! I left him in my room, I was in a  the next one. He was
copying it when your return made him go away hurry to come to you. " in a
hurry. 4 He had no time to put the papers back. Did you hear any
         "So
you left your door open?" hurrying steps on the stairs as you came up to
your door?"
         "Yes,
but I locked up the papers first. "                        "No, I
didn't."
"Well,
it seems, Mr. Soames, that the man who touched your "WI , " Sherlock
Holmes went on, "I don't think we can learn papers came upon them without
knowing2 that they were there. ' anything more from this table. Let's
examine the writing table. The "So it seems to me," said Mr. Soames.
man left no traces on it except some clay and sawdust. Dear me, 5 this
"Let's go to your room now, Mr. Soames. I am at yourservice.3 is very
interesting. And the cut — I see. Where does that door lead All right, Watson,
come with us if you want to.4" to?" Holmes asked suddenly.
"To my bedroom, " answered Soames.
"I should like to have a look6 at it, " said
Holmes.
He entered the bedroom and examined it carefully.

It was already getting dark when we entered the courtyard of
"No, I see nothing," he said. "What about this curtain? Oh the old college. The window of our
client's sitting-room opened you hang your clothes behind it. If
anyonèhas to conceal himself in onto it. Holmes approached the window.
Then he stood on tiptoe inthis room, he must do it there — the bed is too low. No one there, order
to look inside.

                 'He
must have entered5 through the door, " said Mr. Soames,
"the
window doesn't open.I if there is nothing to be learned here — eCJIH HEIb3q HHqero Y'3HaTb
3Aecb
2
we had better go
inside — HaM JlYMLue BOMTH B AOM
3
your servant
seems to have felt better — Kaxemcq, Bam cnyra not-{YBcas far as I remember —
HaCKOJ1bKO q HOMHIO TBOBUI ce6H Jlyqu_re (cyõb•eKmHb1ù
u*HumueHb1ù 060pom)
2
       without
knowing — He 3Haq, He non03peBafl     4 made him go away in a hurry
— 3aCTaBW1 ero nocneLLJH0
3
lam at your
service. — 51 K BaUJHM ycnyraM.       5 Dear me — boxe MOW (eocKuqu1WHue,
ßblpa*awtgee yòuenuue, co-
4
if you want to
(come) ecnø Bbl XOTHTe (noñTH) .*a-aeHue) he must have entered —
OH, oqeBHAHO, BOURJI 6 | should like to have a look — MHe XOTeÃOCb 6b1
B3rJIHHYTb
                                                    6                                                              7

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I suppose?" And he drew the curtain. It seemed to me
that he was prepared to find somebody behind the curtain and to act quickly.
"No one," said Holmes.
"But what's this?" And he picked up from the floor a small ball of
black clay, exactly like the one upon the table.
"Your visitor seems to have left
traces I in your bedroom as well as in your sitting-room, " he said.
"Do you mean to tell me that he was
in my bedroom? What for?" asked Mr. Soames.
"I think it is clear
enough," answered Holmes. "You came back by the side door,
while he was sure that you would come across the courtyard, so he did not see
you coming back, and he was copying the paper until he heard your steps at the
very door. What could
he do? He caught up everything he had with him and he rushed
into your bedroom to hide himself. "
"Good God 2 Mr. Holmes, do
you mean to tell me that all the time I was talking to Bannister we had the
criminal in my bedroom?"
"So I understand it.'
'Perhaps he got out by
the window," began Mr. Soames, but Holmes shook his head impatiently.
'l think you have told me, " he said,
"that there are three students who use the stairs and pass your door.
"Yes, there are. '
"And they are all going to take the examination?"
"Yes. '
"Who are they?" asked Holmes.
"The first floor, "
began Soames, "is occupied by a fine student and athlete, he plays cricket
for the college3 and is a prize-winner for the long jump 4 He is a fine young
fellow. His father was very rich,
your visitor
seems to have left traces — Baul noceTHTeJ1b, KaxeTCH,
OCTaBHA CJ1eAb1
2
Good God — 60xe
MWIOCTMBb1ñ
3
he Plays cricket
for the college — OH urpaer B KPHKeT B KOMaHAe KOJI-neaxa
4
a prize-winner for the long jump — n06eAMTeJ1b B COPeBHOBaHHflX no
11Pb1XKaM B
8
en is .ru but lost all his money
in horse-racing. He died, and young Gilchrist was left very poor. But he is
hard-working and will do well.l
"The second floor,"
continued Mr. Soames, "is occupied by Daulat Ras, the Indian. He is a very
quiet fellow, very hard-working too, though his Greek is his weak subject.
"The top floor belongs to
Miles McLaren. He is a brilliant fellow when he wants to work — one of the
brightest intellects of the University. But his conduct is very bad. He was
nearly expelled because of a card scandal in his first year.2 He is very lazy
and I am sure very much afraid of the examination. Perhaps of the three he is
the only one3 who might possibly be suspected/"
"Exactly, "
said Holmes. "Now, Mr. Soames, let us have a look at your servant,
Bannister.'
Bannister was a little, white-faced,
clean-shaven, grey-haired fellow of fifty. His hands were shaking, he was so
nervous.
'I understand," began Holmes,
"that you left your key in the

"Yes, sir. '
"Was it not rather strange that you
should do this on the very day-5 when there were these papers
inside?"
"It was most unfortunate, sir. But I have done the same
thing at other times. "
"When did you enter the room?"
'It was about half past four. That is Mr. Soames's tea-time. "
" How long did you stay?"
"When I saw that he was out I left at once.'
'Did you look at the papers on the
table?"

"No, sir, certainly not.'
"How did it happen that you left the key in the door?"
I had the tea-tray in my hand. I thought I would come back for the key.
Then I forgot."
"Then the door was open all the time?"
will do
well — 6yaeT npeycrreBaTb (B XM3HM)
2 in his first year — Ha nepBOM Kypce
3
perhaps of the
three he is the only one — B03MOXHO, 1,13 TPOMX CT'YIRHTOB OH
eaHHCTBeHHb1ñ
4
who might
possibly be suspected — Koro MOXHO 3ar10A03pMTb
5
on the very day —
B TOT CaMbIÜ AeHb
9
03HaK0MwreAbHa¶
"Yes, sir. '
"When Mr. Soames returned and sent
for you, you were very much upset?"
"Yes, sir. I nearly fainted,
sir."
"Where were you when you began to feel bad?"

"Where was l, sir? Why, I here, near the door.'
"That is strange, because you sat
down in that chair near the window. Why did you pass these other chairs?"
"I don't know, sir. It did not matter to me where I
sat."
"I really don't think he knew much about it, Mr.
Holmes. He
looked very bad, " said Mr. Soames.
"You stayed here when your master left?" went on
Holmes.
"Only for a minute or so. Then I
locked the door and went to my room. "
"Whom do you suspect?"
"Oh, I don't know, sir.'

"Thank you, that will do,2"
said Holmes. "And now, Mr. Soames, I should like to have a look at the
three students. Is it possible?"
"No difficulty at
all," answered Soames. "Visitors often go over the college3. Come
along. I shall be your guide."
"No names,4 please,"
said Holmes, as we knocked at Gil- christ's door. A tall young fellow opened
the door and very politely invited us into the room. The student left a very
pleasant impression. The Indian, a silent little fellow seemed to be very glad5
when we said
good-bye to him. did not get into the third room. In answer
to our knock nothing but bad language6 came from behind the door.
"I don't care7 who you are.
You can go to the devil," roared the angry voice. "Tomorrow is the
exam, and I won't open my door to anyone"'

I why — HY, H
Jaywao
2 that will do — 110CTaTOHHO, BCe go
over the college — Konneax
4 no names — He Ha3b1BaHTe HaU_1HX
HMeH seemed to be very glad — Ka3a•10Cb, OqeHb 06pa.A0Bancq
6 bad language — pyraHb, 6paHb
 I don't care — MHe HarureBaTb

I won't
open my door to anyone — q He c06HpaIOCb HHKOMY OTKPb1BaTb
ABepb
10
"A rude fellow," said our guide turning red with
anger, "of
course, he did not know who was knocking, but anyhow his
conduct is rather suspicious. "
Holmes' reply was indeed strange.
"Can you tell me his exact height?" he asked.
"Really, Mr. Holmes," answered
Soames in surprise, "l can't. He is taller than the Indian, not so tall as
Gilchrist. "
"That is very important, " said Holmes.
"And now, Mr. Soames, I wish you good night."
"Good God, Mr.
Holmes, are you going to leave me in this terrible situation?" cried Mr.
Soames. "Tomorrow is the examination. I must take some definite action
tonight. "
"You must leave things as they are.
I shall come early tomorrow morning and we shall talk the matter over. I hope
that I shall be able to help you. Meanwhile you change nothing — nothing at
all.
Good-bye. "
'Avery good, Mr. Holmes, good-bye.'
"théll, Watson, what do you think of it?"
Holmes asked, as we came out into the street. "There are three men. It
must be one of them. What is your opinion?"
 "The rude fellow on the top floor
made the worst impression, but that Indian looked at us in a queer way, l"
I remarked.
" So would you2 ifa group
ofstrangers came in on you when you were preparing for an examination next
morning. No, I see nothing in it. But that fellow Bannister does puzzle me.
'He impressed me as a perfectly honest
man," I said.
"So he did me.4 That's all very
puzzling. should a perfectly honest man?. "5 Holmes stopped and did not
say a word more about the case the whole evening.
in a queer way — CTPaHHO
SO would you — H Bbl 6b' TaK xe CMOTPeJIM
3
does puzzle me —
KaK pa3 cMYIuaeT Meh-{q (uaeo,q does òaH ònq ycuneH10
3HayeHun OCH08HœO aqaeona)
4
So he did me. —
TaKoe xe BneqaTJ1ewe FIPOH3BeJ1 OH H Ha MeHq.
5
Why should a
perfectly honest man?.. — 3aqeM 6b] trecTHOMY qeJIOBeKY?..
11

03HaK0MwreAbHa¶
At eight in the morning Holmes came into my room.
"WI, thâtson, " said he, "it is time
we went down to the college. I
Soames will be in a terrible state until we tell him something positive.
'
'Have you got anything positive to tell
him?"
"WI, my dear Watson, I have solved the mystery. "
"Have you got fresh evidence?"
"Aha! It is not for nothing that I
got up at six2 and covered at least3 five miles in two hours. Look at
that!"
He held out his hand and I saw three little balls of black
clay. "Why, Holmes, you had only two yesterday. '
"And one more this morning.
Don't you think, Watson, that the source of No 3 is also the source of Nos4 1
and 2? Eh, Watson?
Well, come along and let us help Mr. Soames out of his
trouble. "
We found Mr. Soames in a very nervous
state. He ran towards Holmes.
"Thank heaven, you have come! I
feared that you had given up the case in despair.5 What am I to do?6 Shall we
begin the exami-

"Yes, of course, let it begin.
"But this rascal?"

"He will not take the examination.
"You know him?"
"l think so. Kindly ring the bell."
Bannister entered and stepped back in
surprise and fear when he saw Holmes again,

it is time
we went down to the college — nopa OTHPaBHTbCfl B KOJL1e11X
( nocqe
060poma it is time ynompeõuemcg cocaaeament,Haq ØopMa azaeona,
8
ÒaHHOM cayqae went.)
2
it is not for
nothing that I got up at six — He 3P51 xe q BCTWI B 6 HacoB
yrpa
3
and covered at
least — H npol_nearr neu1KOM no KpaüHeü Mepe
4
Nos — H0Mepa
5
you had given up
the case in despair — OTKa3aJIHCb paccneAOBaTb 3TO aeno KaK 6e3Haae*Hoe
6
"mat am I to
do? — LITO H UOJIXeH aenaTb? (Thaeon to be c UHØUHUmueoM
oõ03Haqaem òomyceHcmgoeaHue.)
12
"Will you please tell me, Bannister,
" began Holmes,"the truth about yesterday's incident?"
The man turned white to the roots of his
hair.
'I have told you everything, sir, "
he said.
"Nothing to add?"

"Nothing at all, sir.'
S'WI, then I shall help you. When you
sat down on that chair at the window, did you do so in order to conceal some
object? An object which could have shown I Mr. Soames who had been in the
room?" Bannister's face was deathly pale.
 "No, sir, certainly not."
"Oh, it is only a suggestion,
" said Holmes very politely. "I can't prove it. But it seems probable
enough that when Mr. Soames left the room you let out the man who had been
hiding in that bedroom. " Bannister licked his dry lips.

"There was no man, sir.
"Come, come 2 Bannister.'
"No, sir, there was no one. "
"All right, then that will do. But please remain
in the room, Bannister. Now, Soames, may I ask you to go up to the room of
young
Gilchrist and ask him to step down into yours?"
A moment later Soames returned, bringing
with him the He was tall and very handsome, with a
pleasant open face. His troubled blue eyes glanced at each of us, and finally
rested on Bannister.
"Now, Mr. Gilchrist, we are all
quite alone here, no one will ever know a word ofwhat passes between us. want
to know, Mr. Gilchrist, how you, an honest man, could do such a thing as you
did yesterday. "
The young man looked at Bannister with
horror and reproach.
"No, no, Mr. Gilchrist, " cried
the servant. "I never said a word. '
" But you have now, "3 cried
Holmes. "Now, Mr. Gilchrist, you must see that your position is hopeless.
Your only chance is a frank confession. "
which could have shown — KOTOPb1Vi Mor 6bI BblAaTb (õYK8.
rt0Ka3aTb)
2
come, come — HY, nom-10, ycnoK0ÈiTecb
3 But you have (said) now. — Ho Bbl rlPOM3HeCJIH
ceüqac.
13
For a moment Gilchrist tried to say something but suddenly

he burst into a storm of sobbing. I
 "Come, come," said Holmes
kindly. "We know that you are not a criminal. Don't trouble to answer. I
shall tell Mr. Soames what happened, and you listen and correct me where I am
wrong.
" From the moment you told me your
story, Mr. Soames, it was clear to me that the man who entered your room knew
that the papers were there. How did he know? You remember, of course, that I
examined your window. I was thinking of how tall a man must be in order to see,
as he passed, what papers were on the writing-table. I
am six feet high2 and I could do it with
an effort. So, I had reason to think that only a man of unusual height could
see the papers through the window.
'I entered your room, Mr. Soames, and
still could make nothing of3 all the evidence, until you mentioned that
Gilchrist was a long-distancejumper.4 Then the whole thing came to me at once
and I only needed some additional evidence, which I got very soon.
"What happened was this. This young fellow had spent his afternoon
at the sports ground, where he had been practising the
jump. He returned carrying his jumping shoes, the soles of
which, as you know very well, have spikes in them. As he passed your window, he
saw, by means of his great height, these papers on your writing-table and
understood what they were. No harm would have been done had he not noticed the
key6 left in the door by the carelessness of your servant. A sudden impulse
made him enter your room and see if they were indeed the examination papers. It
was not a dangerous action: he could always pretend that he had simply come in
to ask a question.

I burst into a storm of sobbing — pa3pa3HJ1cq
OTqaHHHb1MM Pb1AaHH-
2
| am six feet
high — MOM POCT URCTb (þYTOB
3
still could make
nothing of — BCe eule He Mor caenaTb BblBOna 1-13
4
a long-distance jumper — cnop-rcMeH, cneuwa-%f3Hpyžouutñcfl
no
npb1*KaM B
5
by means of —
6naronapq
6  no harm would have been done had he
not noticed the key — He 3',weTb OH WII-OH, HHqero aypHoro He rlPOH30LWIO 6b1
(cocqaeament,'toe HawlOHeHUe e ycJ106H0M npeð/10*eHuu mpemæeo muna)
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"
"*éli, he forgot his honour, when he saw the Greek text for the
examination. He put his jumping shoes on the writing-table. What was it you put
on that chair near the window?" "Gloves, " answered the young
man.
Holmes looked at Bannister in triumph.
'He put his gloves on the chair, "
went on Holmes, "and he took the examination papers, page by page, to the
window table to copy them. He was sure that Mr. Soames would return by the main
gate, and that he would see him. As we know, he came back by the side gate.
Suddenly he heard Mr. Soames at the very door, There was no way by which he
could escape. He forgot to take his gloves, but he caught up his shoes and
rushed into the bedroom. The cut on the desk is slight at one side, but deeper
in the direction of the bedroom door. That is enough to show us the direction
in which he drew the shoes. Some of the clay round the spike was left on the
desk and a second ball of clay fell in the bedroom.
 "I walked out to the sports ground
this morning and saw that black clay is used in the jumping pit. I carried away
some of it, together with some sawdust, which is used to prevent the athletes
from slipping.l Have I told the truth, Mr. Gilchrist?" "Yes,
sir, it is true," said he.
"Good heavens, have you got nothing to add?" cried
Soames.
"Yes, sir, I
have. I have a letter here which I wrote to you early this morning after a
restless night. Of course, I did not know then that my action was known to
everyone. Here it is 2 sir. You will see that I have written, 'I have decided
not to take the examination. I have found some work and I shall start working
at once.'
"I am, indeed, pleased to hear that
from you, Gilchrist, " said Soames. "But why did you change your
plans?"
"There is the man who sent me in the
right path," said the student, pointing to Bannister.
"Come, now, Bannister," said
Holmes. "It is clear now to all of us that only you could have let this
young man out, since you were
to prevent the athletes from sl$ping — He aaTb
crIOPTCMeHaM fiOCKOJ1b3HYTbcH
2 here it
is — BOT OHO
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leftin the room alone. That is quite clear. What is not quite clear is
the reason for your action. '
"The reason was
simple enough, " answered Bannister. " Many years ago I was a butler
in the house ofthis young gentleman's father. When he died I came to the
college as a servant, but I never forgot the family. WI, sir, as I came into
this room yesterday, when Mr. Soames was so much upset, the first thing I saw
was Mr. Gilchrist's gloves lying in that chair. I knew those gloves well, and I
understood immediately what they meant. If Mr. Soames saw them, Gilchrist would
certainly be a lost man. I I sat down in that chair pretending that I felt very
bad When Mr. Soames went to you, Mr. Holmes,
my poor young master came out ofthe bedroom and confessed it all to me. Wasn 't
it natural, sir, that I should save him 2 and wasn't it natural also that I
should speak to him like a father and make him understand that he must not
profit by such an action? Can you blame me, sir?"
"No, indeed, " said Holmes
heartily, jumping to his feet. "WI, Soames. I think we haye cleared your
little problem up, and our breakfast awaits us at home. Come, Watson! As to you
3 Mr. Gilchrist, I hope a bright future awaits you. For once4 you have fallen
low. Let us see in the future how high you can rise. "
Exercises
Comprehension Check
1.
Say who in the
story:
l) was so excited that it was clear
that something very unusual had happened.
2) agreed to listen to the visitor's
story, though very unwillingly.
      would...
be a lost man —   Hero 6b1JIO 6bI BCe KOHqeHO
2 wasn't it natural... that I should
save him — 3ò. pa3Be Mor q... He crracTH ero
3
as to you — I-ITO Kacaemcq Bac
4 for once
— B 3TOT pa3
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3) would be happy if he could see the
examination papers in advance.
4) was very much upset by the incident.
5)
would be happy to look into the matter and give as much help as
he could.
6)
used the same stairs and passed the professor's door.
7)
made the worst impression on Watson.
8)
looked at the unexpected visitors in a queer way.
9)
entered and stepped in surprise and fear when he saw Holmes
again.
10)     looked-at
Bannister with horror and reproach.
I l) tried to say something but
suddenly burst into a storm of sobbing.
12) had written the following:
"I have decided not to take the examination. I have found some work and I
shall start working at once. "
2.
Say who in the
story said it and in connection with what.
I) "I am very busy now. Could you call the
police?"
2)
'l am sure you will keep our secret. You
are the only man in the world who can help me."
3)
"The Fortescue Scholarship is a large sum of money, so the
student was ready to run a risk in order to get it. "
4)
"The case is not without interest. "
5) "He must have
entered through the door. The window doesn't open. '
6)
..Mr. Holmes, do you mean to tell me that
all the time I was talking to Bannister we had the criminal in my bed-
7)
'"His father was very rich, but lost all his money in
horseracing.'
8)
"He is very lazy and I am sure very much afraid of the
examination."

9)
"No names, please.
10)     "
But that fellow Bannister does puzzle me. "
11)     "I
feared that you had given up the case in despair. "
12)     "
Gloves. "
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13)     "I
have a letter here which I wrote to you early this morning after a restless
night. "
14)     "For
once you have fallen low. Let us see in the future how high you can rise.
"
3.
Say true, false or I don't know.
l ) One evening Watson and Holmes
received a visit from a certain student.
2)
It was one of the cases when it was necessary to avoid scandal.
3)
The next day was the first day of the examination for the Soros
Scholarship.
4)
The first of the papers consisted of a piece of a Latin
translation.
5)
When the lecturer entered the room, he knew that someone had
touched his papers.
6)
He thought that it was Bannister who had messed them up.
7)
Bannister was very much upset by the incident.
8)
Mr. Soames' writing-table was quite new and there were no
scratches on it after the incident.
9)
Five students shared the same building with Mr. Soames and passed
his door, using the same stairs.
10)     Mr.
Soames suspected none of them to have touched the examination papers.
I l) All the three students were very agreeable young
people.
12)     The
criminal, who had touched the papers, left no traces whatever.
13)     Holmes
thought the case not interesting at all and gave it up.
14)     Gilchrist
committed this crime with cold heart and wasn 't sorry about it.
15)     In
the future Gilchrist will rise high.
4.
Answer the
following questions.
l) Where did Mr. Sherlock Holmes and
doctor Watson spend several weeks?
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1.

2)
Who paid them a visit one evening?
3)
Why was it so important for Mr. Soames to avoid scan-
dal?
4)
Why much care was taken to keep the examination papers secret?
5)
What did Mr. Soames find when he entered his sittingroom one day?
6)
Nobody had
touched the examination papers, had they?

7)
Who else was greatly upset by the incident?
8)
Wasn't it rather strange that Bannister
had left the key in the door on the very day these papers were inside?
9)
all the students, living in the same house
with Mr. Soames, reliable young men or did they arouse suspicion?
10)     When
being asked by Sherlock Holmes, Bannister was absolutely calm and reserved,
wasn't he?
I l) When examining the crime scene
Sherlock Holmes found no evidence, did he?
12)    Why did
Gilchrist's eyes finally rest on Bannister, when Mr. Soames invited him to his
room?
13)    Why did
the student burst into a storm of sobbing when Holmes asked him to make a frank
confession?
14)    What
clues did Holmes get when he examined Soames' room and the sports grounds?
15)    What made
him think that the criminal was an athlete?
16)    Why was
old Bannister covering the young man?
17)    Why does
Holmes say at the end ofthe story that "a bright future" awaits Mr.
Gilchrist?
18)    Do you
despise young Gilchrist for what he did or do you feel sorry for him? Why?
Working with the Vocabulary
Choose to
use as, like, as as in the following sentences. Before doing the exercise,
consider the examples and set phrases given below.
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03HaKOM1-rreAbHa¶

          Examples                                                  Set
phrases

The girl is like a rose.

such as

He did, as I asked him to do.

as to (for) me

He worked as (a) gardener.

as usual

She is as cold as ice.

as far as I know

as well as
1)
'I shall be happy to look into this matter and give such
                 help                 I can," said
Holmes.
2)
"Yes, but I remember, they were rolled up."
3)
"You must leave thingsthey are."
4)
"Your visitor seems to have left traces in your bedroom
                                 well                    your
sitting-room, " he said.
5)
'He impressed me a
perfectly honest man," I said.
6)
"We want to know, Mr. Gilchrist, how you, an honest
man, could do such a thingyou did yesterday. "
7)
"He returned carrying his jumping shoes, the soles of which,you know very
well, have spikes.
8)
"When he died, I came to the college  a servant,

but I never forgot the family. "
9)
"Wasn't it natural that I should speak to hima
10)
to you, Mr. Gilchrist, I hope a bright
future
awaits you.
2.         Consider the following prepositional phrases,
picked out from the story•
a)
Translate them
into Russian.
To consist of; in advance; to look after; to be sure of;
to look into the matter; to come upon; to stand on tiptoe; to look at; to send
for; in answer to; to turn red with rage (anger); in a queer way; to give up;
in surprise; in despair; to burst into; by means of; to prevent smb from; a
reason for; to clear up; a key
b)  Complete the sentences below with
appropriate prepositions.
I) "Thank heaven, you have come! I feared that you had  giventhe
case despair. "

2)
For a moment Gilchrist tried to say something but suddenly he
bursta storm of sobbing.
3)
Bannister entered and stepped back  surprise and fear when
he saw Holmes again.
4) "When Mr. Soames returned and sent  you,
were
you very much upset?"
5)
"A rude fellow, " said our guide turning redanger.
6)
The first ofthe examination papers consistsa piece
of Greek translation.

7)
'I shall be happy to lookthis matter
and give such help as I can, " said Holmes, rising.

8)
Holmes approached the window. Then he stood up tiptoe in
order to look inside.
9)
"Well, it seems, Mr. Soames, that the man who touched your
papers camethem without knowing that they were there.
"
10)
answerour knock nothing but bad language

came from behind the door.

11)
"As he passed the window, he saw,  means his
great height, these papers on your writing-table.

12)
Holmes looked Bannister  triumph.

12)
"What is not quite clear is the reason     your ac    tion.'
13)
"l carried away some sawdust, which is used to
prevent the athletesslipping.
14)
"Well, Soames, I think we have cleared your little problem
and our breakfast awaits us at home. "
15)
"Really, Mr. Holmes," answered Soames  surprise.
16)
"The other key  my room belongs to my servant, Bannister,
who has been looking my room for ten years. "
17)
"Let's go to your room now, Mr. Soames. I am

to a room; to be at one's service.                                            your
service. '
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03HaK0MwreAbHa¶
c) Make up
your own sentences with some of these prepositional phrases.
3. a) Mate the words and phrases in the left-hand column with
their definitions in the right-hand column.
l ) to avoidto prevent smth from
happening
2)
in advanceto hide oneself
3)
to run a riska very difficult situation; a hard task to solve
          4) a dilemma                                 that's
enough
5)
to look into a matterto dismiss officially from school, college
6)
to approachto
look in a strange, unnatural way
7)
to conceal oneselfto start doing
8)
to expel          to face danger
9)
That will do.ahead; beforehand
10)     to
take some actionto reach; to come closer to look in a queer way
to investigate the matter
12)
a lost man      to get (gain) advantage from
13)
to profit bya man without any hope or future
14)
to put offto move to a later date; to delay
b)
Complete the following sentences from the story with the phrases or their elements from the left-hand
column (in an appropriate form). l) "Thank you. " said Holmes.
2)
"Tomorrow is the examination. I musttonight. "
3)
If anyone has tohimself in this room, he must do it here —
the bed is too low.'
4) 'But his conduct is very bad. He
was nearly  because of a card scandal in his first year. "
5)
'l shall be happy to and give such help as I can,"
6)
"You see my Either I must find the
man, or the examination must be until new papers are prepared. " 7) Holmesthe
window.
8)
It is just one of the cases when it is quite necessary scandal.
9)
"Of course, every candidate would be happy if he could see
it before the examination and prepare it
10)     The
Fortescue Scholarship is a large sum of money, so the student was ready toin
order to get it. "
I l) "The rude fellow on the top floor made the worst
impression, but that Indian looked at us
12) "Wasn't it also
natural that I should speak to him like a father and make him understand that
he must not such an action?"
4. Complete the following sentences with the words below in
an appropriate form.
To confess; evidence; additional evidence; a frank
confession; one's position is hopeless; a case; fresh evidence; a criminal; to
be suspected; to blame somebody (for); an incident; to examine the room; to
solve the mystery.
I) 'Bannister was very much upset by the

2)
"Theis not without interest. '

3)
"Mr. Holmes, do you mean to tell me that all the time I was
talking to Bannister we had the in my bedroom?"
4)
"théll, my dear Watson, I
"Have you got
5)
"Your only chance is a
6)
"Now, Mr. Gilchrist, you must see that
7)
"I entered your
room, Mr. Soames, and still could make nothing ofall theuntil you mentioned
that Gilchrist was a long-distance jumper. Then the whole thing came to me at
once and I only needed some which I got very soon. "

said Holmes.                                                                                to
  me.
                                          22                                                                                23

8)
"When Mr. Soames went to you, Mr. Holmes, my poor young
master came out of the bedroom andall 03HaK0MwreAbHa¶

9)
"Wasn't it natural that, sir, that I should save him? Can
youme, sir?"
10)
"He is very lazy and I am sure very much afraid of the
examination. Perhaps of the three he is the only one who might possibly
Discussion
Give
sketch-portraits ofthe characters ofthis story (Sherlock Holmes; Mr. Soames;
the three students — young Gilchrist, Daulat Ras, the Indian, Miles McLaren;
Bannister, Mr. Soames' servant).
2.
Who did you suspect at first? How and why did your opinion change?
3.
Draw the layout of Soames's flat and explain what happened there,
making use of your plan
4.
Follow Holmes's train of thoughts and say what clues helped him
to solve the mystery.
5.
Comment on the
following words:
a)
"As to you, Mr. Gilchrist, I hope a bright future awaits
you. For once you have fallen low. Let us see in the future how high you can
rise.'
b)
"You see my dilemma. Either I must find the man, or the
examinations must be put off until new papers are prepared. But this can not be
done without explanations and a terrible scandal will follow. This will throw a
cloud not only on the college but on the University. "
6.
What measures would be taken at your college or University, if a
similar situation happened there?
7.
Comment on the
following proverb.
" Don't put off
till tomorrow what can be done today. ' Can it be applied to the story in
question?
8. Try to recall any
criminal case, describing it by means of the words and phrases from Ex. 4. How
was it solved?

9. Would you like to
make a career of a private detective? Are you fit for it? What qualities and
traits of character are required ofa detective?

THAT LITTLE SQUARE BOX
"All aboard?" I asked the Captain.
"All aboard, sir, " said the mate.
"Then stand by to let her go.2
It was nine o'clock on
Wednesday morning. Everything was prepared for a start. The whistle had sounded
twice, the final bell had rung. The bow was turned toward England, and all was
ready for Spartan's run of three thousand miles.
"Time is up!"3
said the Captain, closing his chronometer and putting it in his pocket.

I All aboard? — nocaAKa 3aKOHqeHa?
(cuataq K omnnwnzwo) 2 stand by to let her go — npurOTOBMTbCfl K OTW1bITHK) 3
Time is up! — nopa OT11PaBJ1¶TbCq!
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03HaK0MwreAb1--1a¶ Suddenly
there was a shout from the bridge, and two men appeared, running very
quickly down the quay. It was clear they were hurrying to the ship and wanted
to stop her.

 "Look sharp!?' I shouted the people on
the quay.
"Ease her!2 Stop her!" cried the Captain.
 The two men jumped
aboard at the last moment, and the ship left the shore quickly.
The people on the quay shouted with
excitement, so did the passengers. 3 They were all glad that the two men had got
on.
I went around the deck, looking at the
faces of my fellow-passengers. I found nothing interesting. Twenty types of
young Americans going to "Yurrup" 4 a few respectable middle-aged
couples, some young ladies...
I turned away from them and looked back
at the shores of America. I wanted to be alone. So I found a place behind a
pile of suitcases and sat down on a coil of rope. I enjoyed being alone.

A few minutes passed. Then I heard a whisper behind me.
 "Here's a quiet place, " said a
voice. "Sit down and we can talk it over. Nobody can overhear us here.
"
The pile of suitcases
was between the men and myself. Looking through a chink between two big
suitcases I saw that they were the passengers who had joined us at the
last moment. I was sure they did not see me. The one who had spoken was a tall,
thin man with a blue-black beard and a colourless face. His companion was a
short fellow. He had a cigar in his mouth and a coat hung over his arm. They
both looked around them as if they were afraid that they were being watched.
'This is just the place," I heard the other say.6

I Look sharp! — OCTOPOXHO! beperMCb!
2
Ease her! —
Ma-llblñ xoa! (,uopœcan KOMaHða)
3 so did the passengers — naccaxMpb1
TOXe (aweon did 3a,ueHqem enaeon shout)
4
"hurrup"
l'jurrapl — nonpaxaHue aMepuvxaHCKOMY np0H3H011œH1•no
CJIOBa Europe I 'juarap]
5
as if — KaK 6YAT0
6
| heard the other
say. — yœlbll_nan, KaK        apyroii. (oÓbecmHb1ù
UH(þUHUmU8Hb1Ù
oõopom)
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They sat down and their backs were
turned towards me. I found myself, against my wish, playing an
unpleasant part of eavesdropper. I
"théll, Muller," said
the taller of the two, "we've brought it aboard all right. "2
"Yes," agreed the man whom he
had addressed as Muller, "it's safe aboard. "

" But we were running a terrible risk.
"Yes, we were, Flannigan," said Muller.
"It would have been horrible if we
had missed the ship, "3 said Flannigan.
"Yes, it would," said Muller. "It would have
upset our plans. "
For some time the little man smoked his cigar in silence.
'I have got it here, " he said at
last.
"Let me see it, " said Flannigan.
'Is no one looking?" asked Muller.
"No, they are all below."
"We must be very careful, of course," said Muller.
 He raised the coat that was hanging
over his left arm, and I saw a dark box which he laid on the deck. One look at
it was enough to make me jump4 to my feet in horror. Ifthey had turned their
heads, they would have seen my pale face looking at them over the pile of
suitcases.
From the first moment of their
conversation I had a horrible feeling of danger. Now I was sure that I was
right. I looked hard at what lay before me.
It was a little square box of some dark
wood. It looked like a pistol-case, only it was much higher. There was a
trigger-like arrange-

I I found myself... playingan unpleasant
partofeavesdropperl'i.vzdropal. — q no"Ma-T1 ce6H Ha TOM, "TO
3aHHMaK)Cb [IOACJIYL11MBaHMe,M (MrpaK) HenpHflTHYi0 POJ1b corJ1qnarraq).
2
we've brought it
aboard all right — KaK 6b1 TO HH 6bIJIO, Mb' ero AOCTaHa napoxoa
3
It would have
been horrible if we had missed the shi). — bblJIO 6bl yxacHO, ec,1M 6M Mb' He
nonu1H Ha napoxon (cocnaeame]1bHoe HOKnonenue e YCJIOßHOM
npeðnoe*thuu mpemeeo muna).
4
was enough to
make me jump — 6b1TIO AOCTaT0HH0, wr06b1 3aCTaBHTb
MeHH BCKOHHTb
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03HaK0MwreAbHa¶
mentl on the lid of the box, and a coil of string was tied
to it. Near the trigger was a small square hole in the wood.

The tall man, Flannigan, as his
companion called him, looked through the hole for several minutes.
"It seems all right," he said at last.
 "l tried not to shake it," said
his companion.
"One must be very careful with
such things. Put in what's necessary," said Flannigan.
Then the shorter man took from his
pocket a small paper package, opened it, took out some white granules and
dropped them through the hole. A funny clicking noise was heard from the box.
Both men smiled. They were pleased.

" Everything seems all right there, " said
Flannigan.
"Yes, everything is going fine, " answered his
companion.
"Look out!2 Here's someone coming.
Take it down to our berth. Nobody should know-3 what our plans are. It will be
very bad for us if anybody finds out about them. And it will be still worse if
anyone pulls the trigger by mistake. He will be terribly shocked, " said
the taller man with a laugh. "It's not badly done, eh?" "Is it
your own design?" asked Muller. "Yes, it is," was the answer.
should take out a patent. "
And the two men laughed again with a
cold laugh, as they took up the little box and put it under Muller's coat.
 "Let's go down and hide it in our
berth, " said Flannigan. "We shall not need it until tonight, and it
will be safe there. "
His companion agreed. They went
arm-in-arm4 along the deck. The last words I heard from Flannigan who was
telling Muller to carry the box carefully and not to knock it against the sides
of the ship.
How long I stayed there, sitting on
the coil of rope, I do not remember. I was shaken by the words which I had
overheard. Every-
a trigger-like arrangement — I-ITO-TO, noxoxee Ha CHYCKOBOVI KPK)-
YOK
2 Look out! — OCTOPOXHO!
nobody
should know — HHKTO He nonxeH 3HaTb (should = must)
4 arm-in-arm — pyKa 06 PYKY

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thing seemed to fit in perfectly well. I The two passengers'
suitcases were not examined because they had come aboard in a hurry. Their
strange manner and secret whispering, the little square box with the trigger,
their joke about the shock of the man who would let it off by mistake.. 2 All
these facts led me to believe that they were terrorists. They had brought an
infernal machine on board and were going to blow up the ship.
I was sure that the white granules which one of them had
dropped into the box formed a fuse-3 for blowing
it up.
They said something about
"tonight". Was it possible that they were going to carry out their
horrible plans on the first evening of our voyage?
What shall I do? Shall I go to the
Captain, and tell him about my fears, and put the matter into his hands? The
idea was very unpleasant to me. What would be my feelings if it turned out to
be a mistake?4 Anything was better than such a mistake. No, I won't go to the
Captain. I shall keep an eye5 on the two men and tell nobody about them.
I decided to go down and find them.
Suddenly I heard somebody shouting6 in my ear, "Hullo, is that you,
Hammond?"
"Oh, " I said, as I turned
round, "it's Dick Merton! How are you, old man?"
This was good luck. Dick was just the man
I wanted: strong and clever, and full of energy. Ever since I was a small boy
in the second form at Harrow7 , Dick had been my adviser and protector. He saw
at once that something was wrong with me.

I Everything seemed to fit in perfectly well. — Bce
KaK 6YAT0 OHeHb xopomo CXOAWIOCb (cyÕbeKmHb1ù
UHØUHUmU8Hb1Ù oóopom).
2
who would let it
off by mistake — KOTOPb1Vt no OUIV16Ke cnycTHT KY-
POK
3  formed a fuse — 3ò. C.TYXMJIH
4
"hat would
be my feelings if it turned out to be a mistake? — I-ITO 6b1 tiYBCTBOBan, ecr1H 6b1 BCe 3TO
OKa3WIOCb 0111H6KOñ?
5
to keep an eye
(on) — He BblnyCKaTb H3
6
| heard somebody
shouting — fl ycJ1b1LIJUJ, KaK KIO-TO
(OÕbeKmHblÜ npuqacmHb1ù oõopom)
ever since I was a small boy in the second form at Harrow hærou] — co
BToporo
KAacca Komenxa B X3ppoy, Koraa H 6b1J1 eue Ma-neHbKHM
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03HaK0M1-rreAbHa¶ "Hullo!" he said in his friendly
way. "What's the matter with you, Hammond? You look as white as a sheet.
Feeling sea-
 "No, no," I said,
"something quite different! Walk up and down with me,2 Dick, I want to
speak to you. Give me your arm. '
We started walking up and down the deck.
But it was some time before I could begin speaking.
'Have a cigar?" he said, breaking the
silence.
"No, thank you," I said.
"Dick, we shall all be dead men tonight.
'Is that why you don't want a cigar?"
asked Dick calmly. But he was looking hard at me when he spoke. It seemed to me
he thought that I was a little mad.
"No," I said, "there is
nothing funny here, and I am quite serious. Dick, I've discovered a conspiracy
to blow up the ship and everybody on board. "
And then I told him everything I knew.
"There 3 Dick," I said, as I finished, "what
do you think of
To my surprise he began laughing.
'I would have been
frightened if I had heard it from anybody else," he said. "But you,
Hammond, have always liked to discover strange things and make up stories about
them. Do you remember at school how you told us there was a ghost in the
corridor? soon found out it was your own reflection in the mirror. Why, man,
" he continued, "why would anyone want4 to blow up the ship? Why
would these two men want to kill the passengers and themselves too? I am sure you
have mistaken a camera or something like it for an infernal machine. '

I Feeling seasick? = Are you feeling seasick? — Y Te6q
MOPCKaq 60ne3Hb?
2 walk up and down with me —
nporynqeMcq (up and down — B3an-Bnepen)
3
there — HY BOT;
BOT •raK
4 why would anyone want... — H pauH
gero KOMY-TO nompe60Ba.nocb
6bI..
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"Nothing of the sort, "l I said
rather coldly. "l know what I am talking about. As to the box,2 1 have
never before seen one like it. They would not have carried it so carefully if
it had been only a camera. They were afraid to drop it because there was
something dangerous in it.
"Let's go down to the saloon and
have a bottle of wine. You can point out these two men if they are there.
"
"All right," I answered.
"I'm not going to lose sight ofthem3 all day. Don't stare at them because
I don't want them to think4 that they are being watched.
"All right," said Dick, "I won't."
When we came down to the saloon, a
good many passengers were there. But I did not see my men. We passed down the room
and looked carefully at every berth. They were not there.
Then we entered the smoking-room.
Muller and Flannigan were there. They were both drinking, and a pile of cards
lay on the table. They were playing cards as we entered. The conspirators paid
no attention to us at all. We sat down and watched them.
There was silence in the smoking-room for
some time. Then Muller turned towards me.
"Can you tell me, sir," he
said, "when this ship will be heard of again? "5
They were both lookingat me. I tried not
to show them how nervous I was.
' I think, 'sir," I answered,
"that it will be heard of when it enters Queenstown Harbour.'
"Ha, ha!"
laughed the angry little man, "l knew you would say that. Don't push me
under the table, Flannigan, I don't like it. I know what I'm doing. You are
wrong, sir," he continued, turning to me, "quite wrong.
"The weather is fine," I said,
"why should we not be heard of at Queenstown?"

I Nothing
of the sort. — Huqero [10A06Horo.
2
3   to lose sight of them — TepqTb ux M3
4   | don't want them to think — H He
xoqy, HT06b1 OHM
5   when this shi) will be heard of
again? — Korna Ha 6epe1Y 6yneT H3BeCTHO o HameM napoxone?
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031--1aK0MwreAb1--ra¶
"l didn't say that," the man
answered. "l only wanted to say that we should be heard of at some other
place first. ' "Where then?" asked Dick.
"That you will
never know, " said Muller. "But before the day is over, some
mysterious event will signal our whereabouts. I Ha, ha, " and he laughed
again.
"Come on deck!" said his
companion angrily. "You have drunk too much and now you are talking too
much. Come away!"
Taking him by the arm, he led him out of the smoking-room
and up to the deck.
"théll, what do you think of it?" I cried, I turned
towards Dick. He was quite calm as usual.
"Think!" he said. "Why, I think what his
companion thinks — that we have been listening2 to the silly talk of a
half-drunken man. The fellow can't be responsible for his words. "
"Oh, Dick, Dick," I cried,
"how can you be so blind? Don't you see3 that their every word shows that
I am right?"
"Nonsense, man!" said Dick.
"You are too nervous, that's all. And how do you understand all that
nonsense about a mysterious event which will signal our whereabouts?"
"I'll tell you what he meant,
Dick," I said. "He meant that some fisherman near the American shore
would see a sudden flash
and smoke far out at sea. That's what he meant. '

'I didn't think you were such a fool, Hammond," said
Dick Merton angrily. "Let's go on deck. You need some fresh air, I think.
'
When it was time to have dinner, I could hardly eat anything.
I was sitting at the table, listening to the talk which was going on
around me. I was glad to see that Flannigan was sitting almost in front
of me. He drank wine. A few passengers sat between him and his friend Muller.
Muller ate little, and seemed nervous and restless.
some mysterious event will signal our
whereabouts — HeKoe TMHCTBeHHoe C06b1THe rrpocnrHaJIH3HpyeT o HaweM
MeCTOHaXOXueHHH
2
have been
listening —
3
don't you see —
1--1eyxeJIH TH He r10HMMaeLIJb
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 Then our Captain stood up. " Ladies
and gentlemen, " he said, "I hope that you will make yourselves at
homel aboard my ship. A bottle of champagne, steward. Here's t02 our safe
arrival in Europe. I hope our friends in America will hear of us in eight or nine
days. "
Flannigan and Muller looked at each other with a wicked
smile.
"May I ask,
Captain, " I said loudly, "what you think of Fenian manifestoes3 and
their terroristic acts?"
"Oh, Captain,
" said an old lady, "do you think they would really blow up a
ship?"
 "Of course, they would if they
could," said the Captain. "But

I am quite sure they would never blow up mine. '

"I hope you've
given orders to make it impossible for them, said an old man at the end of the
table.
"All goods sent aboard the ship are
carefully examined, " said the Captain.
"But a passenger may bring dynamite
aboard with him...," I said.

"I'm sure they would not want to risk their lives in
that way, said the Captain.
During this conversation Flannigan didn't
show any interest. But he raised now his head andlooked at the Captain.
 "Don't you know, " he said,
"that every secret society has some very brave men?.. Why can't the
Fenians have them too? There are many men who are ready to die for their idea
which seems right in their eyes, though others may think it wrong. "
"Murder cannot be right in anybody's eyes,' said a passenger.

 you will make yourselves at home — Bbl 6YJIeTe HYBCTBOB.aTb ce6H KaK
AOMa
2
here's to ... — H
TOCT 3a
3
Fenian
manifestoes ['fi:njen .mæni'festouz] — MaHvt(þeCTb1
(ØeHUU — upnanòcycue
MCIKoóypxya3Hb1e  50-x u 60-x ee.
XIX g.
ØenuaHcxue opeamuaguu óbl,qu 8 MpnaHòuu u 6 CIMA. 0m.'
òoóueaauct, HagUOHW1bHOÙ HoaBUCUMOCmU MpnaHÒuu.
floc-ae Heyða¼Hb1x eoccma,quù aeament,Hocmb (þenueg
ceenacb K OtnÒe,1bHbl.M meppopucmuqecK1dM axmŒM.)
   4 they would not want to risk their lives in that way — OHM He          6b]

PHCKOBaTb cBoeii >KH3Hb10 TaKHM 06pa30M
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031--1aK0MwreAb1--ra¶
"The bombardment of Paris by the
Germans was nothing else, " I said Flannigan, "but the whole world
paid very little attention to it. Only the unpleasant word 'murder' was changed
into the more pleasant one of 'war'. It seemed right enough to German eyes. Why
can't dynamite seem right to the Fenian?"  had better change the
subject of our conversation, " said the Captain, "or the ladies may
have a restless night.'
I drank off two or three glasses of
wine, and then I went up on deck.
"WI," I thought, as I looked
at the beautiful night around me, "if the worst comes to the worst,2 it is
better to die here than to wait for death in agony on a sick-bed3 on land.'
As I tuned my head, I saw two figures, now well known to me, at the other
side of the deck. They were talking, but I could
not hear a word. I decided to hide in one of the lifeboats.
It was dark now, so dark that I could hardly see the figures of Flannigan and
Muller. A few passengers were still on deck, but many had gone below.
Another half-hour passed. I was
getting more and more nerv ous. Then I saw that the two men had
crossed from the other side, and were standing rather near me now. I saw that
Muller had the coat hanging over his arm. All I could do was to lie in the
lifeboat and call myself a fool for not telling the Captain all about it. Then
I heard their whispered talk.
"This place will do, "4 said a voice. "Yes, it will.
"Are you sure the trigger will act?"
"Yes. I'm sure, it will."
"thé were to let it off at ten, were we not? "5
the bombardment [bam 'ba•dmant] of Paris by the Germans was
nothing else — aPTHJIJ1ePHÜCKMh oõcrpeq Ilapuxa HeMuaMH 6bIJI
HH1-reM HHb1M (k'aK yÕHÜCTBOM) (MMeemca g euðy 06cmpe,1
Ilapuoæa HOtga,M1.' BO epeM51
ØpaHK0-npyccK0ù 80ÜHbl 1870— 1871
ea.)
2 if
the worst comes to the worst (proverb) — Ha xynoñ KOHeU on a sick-bed —
nexa 60JIbHb1M B KPOBaTH 4 This place will do. — Yro MeCTO nonoMne•r.
5 We
"ere to let it off at ten, were ve not? — Mbl Beub AUOBOPWIHCb
HaxaTb KYPOK B 10 qacoB, He TaK JIM? (pacq.aeHeHHblù
gonpoc)
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       "Yes,
at ten sharp. We have eight minutes yet."
There was a pause. Then the voice began
again, "I'm afraid they will hear the clicking of the trigger... "
" It doesn't
matter. It will be too late for anyone to do anything. "
How slowly time passed!
It will make a sensation on land," said a voice.
"Yes, it will make a noise in the newspapers.'
I raised my head and looked over the side of the boat.
There

was no hope, no help. Death stared me in the face and I could
not do anything. There was nobody on deck except those two dark figures.
Flannigan was holding a watch in his hand.
"Three minutes more," he said.
"Put the box down on the deck. '
It was the little square box. I
looked over again. Flannigan was shaking something out ofa paper into his hand.
I saw the white granules — the same I had seen in the morning. I was sure they
would be used as a fuse. He dropped them into the little box through the hole.
I heard the same strange noise which I had heard before.
"A minute and a half more," he said. "Shall I pull the
string or will you do it?"
'l shall pull it," said Muller.
I could stand it no longer.2
"Stop!" I screamed, jumping up to my feet. "Stop it at
I was brave enough now.
"Why do you want to have the blood
of two hundred people upon your hands?"
'He's mad!" said Flannigan. "Time's up. Pull the string,
Muller. "
I jumped down on to
the deck. "You shan't do it!"3 1 cried.

I It will be too late for anyone to do anything. —
byueT yxe CJIHU]KOM r103AH0, H HHKTO He CMOxeT HMqero cnenaTb.
2
| could stand it
no longer. — 60J1bIue He Mor BblAePXaTb.
3
You shan't do it!
— Bbl 3Toro He caeJ1aeTe! (Shan't 3òecb gupa.waem
3anpetueHue.)
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031--1aK0MwreAbHa¶

"What right do you have to stop us? It's no business of
yours. I
Get away from this!"
"Never!" I said.
 "We can't lose a moment now! Time is
up! I'll hold him, Muller, while you pull the trigger.'
Next moment I was struggling with Flannigan. It was
useless... I was a child in his hands.
He pushed me against the side of the ship and held me there.
"Now," he said, "he is
helpless, he can't do anything, hurry up, Muller!"
I felt that it was time to prepare
myselffor death. I saw Muller come up to the box and pull the string.
There came a strange clicking noise
from the box. The trigger fell, the side ofthe box dropped, and let off — two
grey carrier pigeons! ..
Little more can be said. Perhaps
the best thing I can do is to keep silent and let the sporting correspondent of
the New York Her- ald2 explain everything. Here is what he
wrote in his article soon after our ship had left America:
"An interesting match of pigeon-flying took
place3 last week between the pigeons ofJohn H. Flannigan of Boston and Jeremiah
Muller of Lowell. The start was from the deck of the transatlantic steamship
Spartan, at ten o'clock on the evening of starting from New York. The distance
between the ship and the land was about a hundred miles. The match and
preparations for it were kept secret as some captains do not allow sporting
matches to take place aboard their ships. There was some little difficulty at
the last moment, but the match began almost on time.4 Muller's pigeon won as it
arrived in Lowell on the following morning. What happened to Flannigan's bird —
we do not know. hope that a few such matches will make pigeon-flying more
popular in America. "
It's no
business of yours. — 3TO He Bawe AeJIO.
2
New York
Herald['heraldl — Ha3BaHHe ra3eTb1
3
an
interesting match of pigeon-flying took place   np0H30L11J10 HHTepecHoe
copeBHOBaHMe 110MTOBb1x rony6eñ
4
on time — BOBPeMfl, B HatqeqeHHOe BpeMH
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1.
2.
Exercises
Comprehension Check
Say who in the story:
l) appeared, running very quickly down the quay.
2)
shouted with excitement.
3)
looked around as if they were afraid that they were being
watched.
4)
had a terrible feeling of danger.
5)
took from his pocket a small paper package, opened it, took
out some white granules and dropped them through the hole.
6)
was shaken by the words which he had overheard.
7)
saw at once that something was wrong with the narrator of the
stow.
8)
was playing cards and paid no attention to Dick and the narrator,
when they entered the smoking-room
9)
could hardly eat anything when it was time to have dinner.
10)     looked
at each other with a wicked smile.
I l) was getting more and more nervous.
12) felt that it was time to prepare himself for death.
Say who in
this story said it and in connection with what.
I)       "Here's
a quiet place. Sit down and we can talk it over.
Nobody can overhear us here. "

2)
"But we were running a terrible risk.
3)
"What's the matter with you, Hammond? You look as white as a
sheet. Feeling seasick9"
4)
"I've discovered a conspiracy to blow up the ship and
everybody on board.
5)
'I am sure you have mistaken a camera or
something like it for an infernal machine.'
6)
" I only wanted to say that we should be heard of at some
other place first. "
7)
"He meant that some fisherman near the American shore would
see a sudden flash and smoke far out at sea.'
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8)
" Here's to our safe arrival in Europe. I hope our
friends13) The event had been kept secret, because some captains in America
will hear of us in eight or nine days. "
9)
"There are many men who are ready to die for their
idea, which seems right in their eyes, though others may think it wrong.4.

didn't allow sporting matches to take place aboard their
ships.
the
following questions.

10)     "We
had better change the subject of our conversation or the ladies may have a
restless night.
Il) "I'm afraid they will hear the clicking of the
trigger..."
"It doesn't matter. It will be too late for anyone to
do anything. "
12)    "Why
do you want to have the blood of two hundred people upon your hands?
13)    "Now
he is helpless, he can't do anything, hurry up...'
3.    Agree or disagree with the following statements.
l ) All the passengers of the ship
got on board on time. 2) The passengers of the ship made an interesting
company.
3)
Both the people on the quay and the passengers of the ship were
glad that the two men had got aboard.
4)
The narrator hid himself behind the pile of suitcases to overhear
the conversation between the two men.
5) The two men 's conversation was of
no interest to the narrator and he didn't pay any attention to it.
6)
The narrator didn't share his fears with the captain because he
was afraid it might be a mistake.
7)
Dick believed the narrator at once and took the news very
seriously.
8)
When the two of them came down to the smoking-room, they didn't
see the suspicious men there.
9)
When at dinner, everybody talked about some trifle things of no
importance.
10)     The
narrator kept an eye on the two passengers with a strange box.
11)     The
two men, Muller and Flannigan, wanted to blow up the ship and everybody on it,
as they were terrorists.
The ending of the story was quite
unexpected.
12)     The
two "terrorists" turned out to be sportsmen.
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1.

I ) Who is the narrator?
2)
Who were the passengers of the ship?
3)
Where was the ship going?
4)
Why was there so much excitement both on the ship and on the
quay?
5)
Why do you think the narrator wanted to be alone?
6)
What did he overhear, sitting behind a pile of suitcases?
7)
Why did the narrator have a terrible feeling of danger from the
very first words of the conversation?
8)
What made it even stronger?
9)
What did the narrator take the box for?
10)
But he didn't
tell the captain about his fears, did he? Why?
11)     Was
it good luck that the narrator met his former schoolmate on board the ship?
12)     Did
he tell Dick he had discovered a conspiracy to blow up the ship and everybody
on board?
13)     How
did Dick take the news?
14)     Why
didn't Dick believe the narrator? 15) What were Muller and Flannigan doing in
the smokingroom? What were they talking about?
16)
Why did the narrator ask the captain at dinner about Fenian
manifestoes and their terroristic acts?
17)
What did the narrator see and hear on deck?
18)
Why did he start fighting the two men? 19) What lay behind this
mystery?
Working with the Vocabulary
Say it in
Wur own words, paying attention to the italicised parts.
l) "All aboard?"
asked the Captain. "All aboard, sir," said the mate.
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2) " Time is up."' said the
Captain, closing his chronometer  5) and putting it in his pocket.
3) I was shocked by
the words which I had overheard. Every     thing seemed tofit in perfectly well.
4)
"No, I won't go to the Captain. ['Il keep an eye on the two
6) men and tell nobody about them.'
5)
They said something about "tonight". Is it
possible that they were going to carry out their
horrible plans on the first evening of our journey?
6)
'l am sure you have mistaken a camera or something like 7) itfor
an infernal machine.
7)
" Nothing ofthe sort, " I said rather coldly.
8)
'l hope that you will make yowselfat home aboard my ship. "   8)
9)
"We had
better change the subject ofour conversation. '
10)
" Ifthe worst comes to the worst, it is better to die here
than to wait for death in agony on a sick-bed on land. "
9) I l) "I could stand it no
longer.'
2.        Choose
to fill in the gaps in the following sentences.
"l hope that you willyourselves at home aboard my ship.
a)
make
b)
do this conversation Flannigan had not shown any interest.
a) for
b)
while
c)    during
'It
will                 a scandal on land," said a voice.

a)
do
b)   make
It was dark now, so dark that I could  see the figures
of Flannigan and Muller.
a)   hard
b)   hardly
Death stared me in the face and I could not do
a)
nothing
b)   something

l) He (l) the coat that                       (2)
  over his left                             10) There was nobody on deckthose two
  figures.
arm and I saw a dark box which he        (3) on the a)
  besides desk.      b) except
         (l) a) rose               (2) a)
  hung                  (3) a) lay                                       11)
  "Why do you want to have the blood of two
               b) raised                 b)
  hanged                    b) laid                                          people
  upon your hands?"
2)
  It lookeda
  pistol case.      a) hundreds
a)
  as b) hundred
b)     like
      12)
  "We hope thatsuch
  competitions will make pi-

3)
  The tall man, Flannigan,his companion called      geon-flying
  more popular in America.

him, looked through the hole for several minutes. a) a few a) like       b)
  few c) little
b) as both looked around them as if
  they were afraid that     13) d) Suddenly a little there was a shout from the
  bridge, and two men 4) They they were being watched. "This is just the
  place, " I heard appeared, running very quickly down the quay. It was

 say.  clear
  they were to the ship. a) other
a)
  hurrying b)
  another
b)
  hurrying up
c)
  the other  c) in a hurry
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c)
anything

14) The two passengers' suitcases
were not examined because they had come aboard

a)   hurrying
b)   hurrying
up
c)   in
a hurry
3.
Use appropriate
prepositions in the following sentences.
l) ' It will be very bad for us if
anybody findsabout
them. And it will be still worse if anyone pulls the trigger mistake. '
2) "Was it possible they were going to carrytheir horrible
plans on the first evening of our voyage?" 3)my surprise he began laughing. 4)
"You, Hammond, always liked to discover strange things and makestories about
them. "
5)
"The fellow can 't be responsiblehis words. '
6)
"Here's  our safe arrival Europe. "
7)
'Don't stare them because I don't want them to think that they
are being watched.
8)
Muller's pigeon
won as it arrived  Lowell the following morning.
4.
a) Mate the words
and phrases in the left-hand column with their definitions in the right-hand column.
1) to overhear       l) to watch smb closely  2) an
eavesdropper2) I was very close to death 3) to fit in well3) This place suits
us.
4)
to feel seasick4)
to match; to be logically explained
5)
to discover a conspiracy5) not to take notice of
6)
to stare at6) to switch to another topic
7)
one's whereabouts7) the one, who listens secretly to other
people's talk
 8) to pay little
attention 8) a person, who goes sometowhere with another one
9)
to change the subject9) not to see smth or smb of the
conversation any longer
10)
if the worst comes to10) to listen secretly to other the
worstpeople's conversation
I l) This place
will do.I l) to uncover one's secret evil plans
12)
Death stared me in the12) to get sick because of the
face.movement of the ship
13)
to keep an eye on13) I can't bear it any more.  I can stand
it no long- 14) the place, where a person er.or a thing is
15) to take out a patent of15) to get a paper from a
government office giving someone the right to make or sell a new inven-
tion
16)
to lose sight of16) to look steadily for a long time in surprise
or shock
17)
a companion    17) if the worst possible situation
happens
b) Fill in
the blanks with the required phrases or their elements from the left-hand
column of the list (in an appropriate form).
I)
It's rude to                     other people.
2)
I never could   people telling me what to do.
3)
The old lady's   always
drives the car.
4)
This new invention is protected by patent; the inventor
hasit.

5)
The escaped prisoner'sare still unknown.
6)
Please,the
baby for me.
7)
Mary joined the local drama club but didn't seem
so she left.

8)
I saw her for a moment but thenof her.
9)we can always go by bus tomorrow.

c) Make up
your own sentences with some of these phrases.
5.       Choose
between hardly or hard to complete the following sentences.
l) I lookedat what was before me.

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3) It was dark now, so dark
  that I could                       see the

Do
  you consider this story a humorous one or a detective

figures of Flannigan and Muller.

one? Give your reasoning.

4) But he was looking                  at
  me when he spoke.

2.

Supply this story with a different ending.

3.

What other title could have been given to it? Give your

6.

Translate the following sentences from the story into Russian. Pay

reasoning.

attention to the use of the verb to let.

4.

Give
  sketch-portraits of all the characters of the story under discussion (the
  narrator; the two strange passen-

l) "Let me see it."

gers—
  Muller and Flannigan; Dick — the narrator's

2) Their strange manner and secret
  whispering, the little

friend).

square box with the trigger, their jokes
  about the shock of

5.

Why
  had the two men taken so much conspiracy, while

the man who would let it off by mistake...
  All these facts

preparing their pigeon competition?

      led me to
  believe that they were terrorists.

6.

Find
  some more information on Conan Doyle. What

3) Perhaps, the best thing I can do is to
  keep silent and let

other
  stories by this writer have you read? How did you

the sporting correspondent of the New York
  Herald ex-

like them? Speak on one of them.

plain everything.

7.

Why
  does this story stand out among other stories by this

4) "Let's go on deck. You need some
  fresh air, I think.

writer?

8.

Act out the conversations between:

7.

Narrate the following conversation in the Reported Speech, using the

a) Flannigan and Muller

recommended verbs (to answer, to add, to explain, to
  exclaim, to say,

b) The narrator and his friend Dick

to tell smb smth, to wonder, would like to know, to
  repeat, to agree, to

9.

Act
  as a reporter. Interview Muller, Flannigan and the

object, to contradict, to insist,
  to be sure, to doubt, etc.). Observe the rule of the Sequence of Tenses.

captain
  of the ship after the end of the pigeon competi-

2) When it was time to have dinner, I couldeat anything.
tion.
M od e l: "Yes, this place will
do.'
Muller agreed that that place would do.

"This place will do."
'Yes, it will.'
"Are you sure the trigger will act?"
"Yes, I am sure it will."
were to let it off at ten, were we not?"

"Yes, at ten sharp. We have eight minutes left."
'I am afraid they
will hear the clicking of the trigger.'

"It doesn't matter. It will be too late for anyone to do anything.
' It will make a sensation on land. '
"Yes, it will make a noise in the newspapers.
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Discussion

THE STOLEN BACILLUS
A young man was visiting a famous
bacteriologist. He had brought a note of introduction from an old friend ofthe
scientist. His pale face and deep grey eyes, his nervous
manner and keen interest in bacteriology made a good impression upon the
scientist. So the famous bacteriologist was glad to show the visitor his
laboratory.
"This, " said the scientist,
slipping a glass slide under the microscope, "is a preparation of the
famous Bacillus of cholera — the cholera germ.'
The pale-faced visitor looked down the
microscope. He was evidently not accustomed to that kind ofthing, and held a
limp white hand over the other eye.

I see very little," he said. 'Touch the
screw," said the bacteriologist, "perhaps the microscope is out of
focus for you. '
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"Ah! now 'I see, " said the
visitor. "Not so very much to see after all!] They are so small. And yet,
these little bacteria may multiply and kill the population Of any great city!
MOnderful"'
    He stood
up. Then he took the glass slide from under the mi• croscope and held it in his
hand towards the window.
"You can see them only by straining
your eye, so small they he said looking at the preparation.
"Are these — alive? Are they dangerous now?"
"No, they
aren't," said the scientist. "They have been killed already. I wiSh
we could kill all Ofthem2 in the world. '

 "I suppose, " the pale man
said with a slight smile, "that you don't like to have such things about you in
the living — in the active state?"
"On the contrary,3 we are obliged to
4" said the bacteriologist. " Here, for instance — " He walked
across the room and took up one ofseveral sealed tubes. "Here is the
living thing. This is a cultivation of the living cholera bacteria. "
An expression of satisfaction appeared in
the face of the pale young man. The scientist was surprised to see pleasure in
his visitor's eyes. He held the tube in his hand thoughtfully.
"Yes, here is a great danger
imprisoned, " he said. "Only break such a little tube as this into a
supply of drinking water and these little particles that are difficult to see
through the microscope will go forth, increase and multiply in the reservoir.
Then death — death swift and terrible, death full of pain will come upon the
city... Here it will take the husband from the wife, there the child from its
mother, the statesman from his duty, and the working man from his work. Death
will come into a house here and a house there and punish the people who do not
boil their drinking water; death will wait ready to be drunk by horses in the
rivers5 and by children in the public fountains.

I Not so very much to see aner all! — He TaK yx MHOrO
MOXHO H YBHaeTb, C06CTBeHHO roBopq.
2
| wish we could
kill all Of them — eCJIH 6b1 MH MOTJIH y6HTb ux Bcex
(cocaaeameJ1bHoe 'taK,101-teHUe nocqe enaeona to wish)
3
on the contrary —
Ha060po•r
4
we are obliged to
— Mbl 06H3aHb1 (COXPaHVfTb ux XMBb1MH) (to e 3mo,M c,qyqae 3'1MeHBem aqaeon to
keep, qmoõbl u3óe*an1b eeo noemopeHug)
5
death will wait
ready to be drunk by horses in the rivers — CMePTb HaCTHrHeT .nomaneM, KOTOPb1e
õYAYT nHTb Bony M3 peK
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Death will appear in mineral water and in the wells, it
will appear everywhere at a thousand unexpected places. "
 He stopped suddenly. Then after a
moment's silence he continued, "But it is quite safe here, you know —
quite safe." The pale-faced man nodded. His eyes shone.
"These anarchists," said he,
"are fools, blind fools — to use bombs when this kind of thing
exists."
Suddenly a knock at the door was heard.
The bacteriologist opened it.

"Just a minute, dear, " whispered his wife.
When the scientist returned to the
laboratory his visitor was looking at his watch.
'l had no idea I had wasted an hour of
your time," he said. "Twelve minutes to four. I ought to have left
herei by halfpast three. But your things were really too interesting. I'm sorry
I cannot stay a moment longer. I have an appointment at four. '
He thanked the scientist and went out
ofthe room. The bacteriologist accompanied him to the door and then returned
thoughtfully along the corridor to his laboratory.

He was thinking of his visitor. "A strange fellow," he
said to himself. "Why should he be so interested2 in those cultivations of
cholera germs?"
Suddenly a disturbing thought struck him.
He turned very quickly to his writing-table. Then he felt hastily in his
pockets, and then rushed to the door. "I may have put it down3 on the hall
table, " he said.
"Minnie!" he shouted in the hall.
"Yes, dear," came his wife's voice.
"Had I anything in my hand when I spoke to you, dear,
just

"Nothing, dear, because I remember.'
' Blue ruin!" cried the
bacteriologist, ran to the front door and down the steps of his house to the
street.

I I ought to haye left here — MHe 6b1
CJICAOBUIO yñTH o-moxa
2 why should he be so interested — 3aqeM 6b]          11POflBJ1flTb
TaKY10 3aHHTepeCOBaHHOCTb
I may have
put it down — MOXeT 6b1Tb, q [IOJIOXWI np06HpKY
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Minnie, hearing the door slam/ , ran in
alarm to the window. Down the street the young man was getting into a cab. The
bacteriologist, hatless, and in his slippers, was running and gesticulating
wildly towards this group. One slipper came off, but he did not stop to put it
on.
"He has gone
mad,"2 said Minnie, "it's that terrible science of his. "
She opened the window and was going to
call after her husband.
The young man, suddenly glancing round,
seemed to be mad too.3 He pointed hastily to the bacteriologist and said
something to the cabman. In a moment the cab and the bacteriologist running
after it disappeared round the corner.
Minnie remained at the window for a
minute or two. She could understand nothing at all.
"Ofcourse, he is eccentric," she thought. "But
running about London in his socks! "
A happy thought struck her. She hastily
put on her hat, seized her husband's shoes, went into the hall, took down his
hat and light overcoat from the pegs, came out upon the doorstep and hailed a
cab.
"Drive me up the
road," she said to the cabman, "and see if we can find a gentleman
running about in a velveteen coat and no hat.

"Velveteen coat, ma'am, and no hat. Very good, ma'am.
"
The cabman said it in the most
matter-of-fact way4, as if he drove to this address every day in his life.
People walking along the street were
astonished seeing three cabs racing one after the other; a young man in the
first cab sat holding a little tube firmly in his hand. His face was like a
mask of
hearing the door slam — YCAb11_UaB, 'ITO XJ1011HYJla ABepb
(oÕbe•cmHb1Ù
•uH(þuHumuBHb1ü oõopom)
2
he has gone mad —
OH comeli c YMa
3
The young man
seemed... to be mad too. —       qœ10BeK... Ka3aAOCb, Toxe comen c YMa
(cy6beKmHb1Ù uHØuHumußHb1Ù oóopom).
4
in the most
matter-of-fact way — KaK 6YATO 3T0 6b1.r1 artH Hero caMb1ii
3aypHAHb11i cnyyaV1
5
as if — K'aK
6YATO
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fear and exultation. He was afraid ofbeing caught 03HafOMHTeA_bHaq before
he could fulfil his mad task. But his exultation was greater than his fear. No
anarchist before him had ever done the thing he was going to do:
to break the tube that contained the destruction of London into a
reservoir.
"The world will
hear of me at last, " he thought. "I shall teach those who have
neglected me, who have always thought me a man of no importance2. Death, death,
death to them all!"
He felt proud ofhis cleverness, how
brilliantly he had planned the whole thing: forged the letter of introduction
and got into the laboratory.
He looked out of the cab. The bacteriologist was only fifty
yards behind. That was bad. "I may be caught and stopped yet," the
anarchist thought. He felt in his pocket for money, and found half-a-sovereign
3 He held it out in his hand into the cabman's face.
"I'll give you more," he shouted, "if only we get
away."
"Very well," said the cabman,
snatching the money out of his hand. The cab swayed and the anarchist suddenly
felt the little tube crack. 4 The broken halfofit fell upon the floor ofthe
cab. The young man stared at two or three drops of the cultivation on his hand.
He shuddered.
"WI! I suppose I shall be the first
to die from cholera. And it's a terrible death. I wonder if it is as terrible
as they say it is. "
Presently a thought occurred to him. He
looked at the tube on the floor ofthe cab. A little drop was still in the
broken end ofthe tube, and he drank it to make sure.5 It was better to make
sure.
Then it dawned upon him that there was no further need to escape the
bacteriologist. So he told the cabman to stop, and got out. He stood on the
pavement with his arms folded upon

I he was
afraid ofbeing caught — OH 60ffl1CR, gro ero CXBaTRT
2
a man of no
importance — MaqeHbKHM qeJ10BeqeK (He HMeiOUJHä HHKaKoro Beca)
3
half-a-sovereign
— noncoBepeHa (cogepeH — 30nomag M0Hema e oðuH Øy,qm cmepmueog)
4
felt the little
tube crack — IIOHYBCTBOBWI, 'ITO np06upva nonHyna

(OÕœKmHblù
uHØuHumuBHb1Ù 060pom)
5
to make sure —        BePHOCTH
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his breast, awaiting the arrival •of the bacteriologist.' There was
something tragic and dignified in his pose. He greeted the scientist with a
laugh.

"Long livel Anarchy! You are too
late, my friend. I have drunk it. "
The bacteriologist from his cab gave him a curious look.

"You have drunk it! An anarchist! I see now. '
He was about to say something more, 2
and then checked himself. A smile hung in the corner of his mouth. He was going
to descend from his cab when he saw the anarchist waving him a dramatic
farewell and then walking away towards Waterloo Bridge.
While watching him the bacteriologist did not notice his wife
at first, who appeared upon the pavement with his hat and shoes and the
overcoat. When he saw her he did not even show any surprise.
"Very good of you to bring my
things, " he said to his wife, still looking at the figure of the
anarchist going away. Minnie felt absolutely sure that her husband was mad.
"Put on?.. Certainly, dear,
" said he as the cab began to turn and hid the black figure, slowly
disappearing in the distance, from his eyes. Then suddenly something grotesque
struck him and he laughed. Then he remarked, "It is really very serious,
very, very serious.
"You see, that man came to my house
to see me. He is an anarchist. No — don't faint, or I shan't be able to tell
you the rest. Not knowing that he was an anarchist, I wanted to astonish him.
So I took up a cultivation of that Bacterium that causes the blue patches upon
different monkeys. I don't know why I•ül it... Like a fool, I said it was
Asiatic cholera. And he ran away with it to poison the water of London. Then he
swallowed it. Of course, I cannot say what will happen, but you know, that
cultivation turned that kitten blue... and the three puppies — in patches, and
the sparrow — bright blue. And the worst of all is, I shall have to prepare
another cultivation. "

1
long live — Aa
3npaBCTByeT
2
he was about to
say something more — OH c06upaJ1cq CKa3aTb elue
¼TO-TO
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Exercises
         Comprehension Check
1.        Say
who in the story said it and in connection with what.
l) "You can see them only by straining your eyes, so
small
 they are."

2)
"I suppose that you wouldn't like to have such things
about you in the living — in the active state?"
3)
"These anarchists are fools, blind fools — to use bombs when
this kind of thing exists. "
4) "Blue ruin!"
5)
"He has gone mad, it's that terrible science of his. "

6)
"Velveteen coat, ma'am, and no hat. Very good, ma'am. "
7)
"The world will hear of me at last. "
8)
"Long live
Anarchy! You are too late, my friend. I have drunk it. "
9)
"And the worst of all is, I shall have to prepare another
cultivation.
2.
Mate the
beginnings of the sentences in Part A with the endings in Part B.
Part A
l) So the famous bacteriologist was glad
2)
"Death will
come into a house here and a house there
3)
The bacteriologist accompanied him to the door
4)
The bacteriologist, hatless and in his slippers 5) Minnie
remained at the window
6)
People walking along the street were astonished .
7)
No anarchist before him håd ever done the thing he was
going to do:
8)
He felt proud of his cleverness: .
9)
The cab swayed
and „
10)
Then it dawned upon him
I l) Of course, I cannot say what will happen,
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Part B
l)    was running and gesticulating
wildly towards the group. 2)       to show the visitor his laboratow.

3)seeing three cabs
racing one after the other; a young man in the cab sat holding a little tube
firmly in his hand.

4)
. how brilliantly he had planned the whole
thing: forged   the letter of introduction and got into
the laboratory.
5)
and then returned thoughtfully along the
corridor to  his laboratory.
6)
for a minute or two.
         7)        the anarchist suddenly felt
the little tube crack.
8)
to break the tube that contained the destruction of London, into
a reservoir.
9)
that there was no further need to escape the bacteriologist.
10)     ...
but you know, that cultivation turned that kitten blue... and the three puppies
— in patches, and the sparrow — bright blue.
I l) and punish the people who do not boil their drinking
water; death will wait ready to be drunk by horses in the rivers and by
children in the public fountains.
3.
Answer the
following questions.
I ) Who was a young man visiting?
2)
Why was the bacteriologist glad to show the visitor his
laboratory?
3)
What did the bacteriologist show him?
4)
there there only killed bacteria in the lab or were there also
cultivations of the living cholera bacteria?
5)
Why was the scientist surprised at the moment?
6)
What will happen if such a little tube is broken into a supply of
drinking water?
7)
Why did the bacteriologist think that his visitor was a strange
fellow?
8)
How did the young man react when he saw the bacteriologist behind
him?
9)
What thought struck the bacteriologist's wife?

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10)
What were the people in the street surprised to see?
1 1) Why did the young man feel proud
after all? What was he planning to do?
12)
Why did the anarchist think that he'd probably be the
first man to die from cholera?
13)
Why did it occur to him that there was no further need to  escape
the bacteriologist?
14)
What did the anarchist tell the bacteriologist when the latter
got out of the cab?
15)
Why was Minnie, the scientist's wife, absolutely sure he was mad?
16)
What cultivation
did he show to the anarchist to sumrise him?
17)
What effect did this cultivation produce on living creatures?
Working with the Vocabulary
1. Find in the story synonyms for the following Russian words
(the number of synonyms is given in brackets).
CTPaHHbIM
(2); xvaTaTb, JlOBHTb (4); ToponHTbcq (2); KPHqaTb (2); Pa3MaXHBaTb pyKaMh (2);
CMOTPeTb (2); 6b1Tb YAHBneHHb1M (2); PeKOMeHaaTeAbHoe rlHCbM0 (2);
pa36HB.aTbCH, AaBaTb Tpeu_1HHY (2); BblXOAHTb M3 Ke6a (2); 6eraTb Apyr 3a
apyroM (2); cnacaTbcq 6erCTBOM (2).
2,         Check
the pronunciation of the following words with the dictionary.
reservoir, to descend, grotesque, cholera, germ,
anarchist, bacteriologist, to neglect, half-a-sovereign, to seize, limp, bomb,
hastily, bacteria(um), microscope, to gesticulate, exultation, breast.
3.
Fill in the gaps
in the following sentences with the verbal phrases, containing the preposition
a) out; b) on / upon. Translate the sentences into Russian.
a) To pass
out; to look out; to hold out; to snatch out; to get out.
l) So he told the cabman to stop and
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2)
Heof the cab.
3)
He thanked the scientist and of the room.
4)
"Néry well, " said the cabman, the money  of
his hand.

5)
He felt in his pocket for money and found half-a-sovereign. He       it      in
his hand into the cab-

man's face.
b) To make
an impæxsion on; to come upon; to put on (2); to come out upon; tofall
upon; to dawn upon; to stand on; tofold arms upon (one's bæast); to cause
patches upon; to appear upon.
l) While watching him the bacteriologist did not notice his
wife at first who the pavement.
2)
"I may have it downthe hall table,' he said.
3)
So I took up a cultivation ofthat Bacterium that the blue patches
different monkeys.
4)
He stood        the pavement with hishis breast.
5)
The broken half of it     the floor of the cab.
6)
Then it him that there was no further need to escape the
bacteriologist.
7)
His pale face and deep eyes, his nervous manner the scientist.
8)
One slipper came
off, but he didn't stop to

9)
Then death — death swift and terrible, death full of pain will
the city.
10)     She
hastily her hat, seized her husband's shoes, went into the hall, took down his
hat and light overcoat from the pegs,  the doorstep and called out to a
cab.
4.
Choose to fill in
the gaps in the sentences below.
l) "It sounds really very , velY, very
a)
serious
b)   seriously
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2) Then it dawned upon
him that there was no need to escape the bacteriologist.

a)
farther
b)   far
c)
further
d)   farthest
e)
furthest
4)
A smilein the corner of his mouth.
a) hanged
b) hung
5)
"Certainly, dear, " said he as the cab began to turn,
and hid the black figure, slowly disappearing  the distance.
a)
at
b)   in
6)
The cab swayed and the anarchist suddenly felt the little tube
a)
crack
b)   cracking
c)
to crack
7)
'I had no idea Ian
hour of your time, " said the young man.
a) wasted
b)
was wasting
c)
had wasted
8)
"I'll
give you more," he shouted, if only we away."
a)
will get
b)
get
c)
gets
5.
Study the
following prepositional phrases and a) use the required prepositions to fill in
the gaps in the sentences below; b) translate the phrases into Russian; c) make
up your own sentences with some of them.

To be accustomed to; to be out of focus; on the contrary; for
instance; in the face; to be interested in; round the corner; in alarm; to get
into a cab; a man of no importance; in the distance; to be good of.
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l)the contrary, we are obliged to,"
said the bacteriologist.

2)
An expression of satisfaction appeared the
face of the pale man.
3)
He was evidently not accustomed that kind of thing, and held a
limp white hand over the other eye.
4)
"Here,instance
—" He walked across the room  and took up one of the several sealed
tubes. "Here is the living thing. "
5)
"I shall teach those who have neglected me, who have always
thought me a manno
importance. "
 6) "Touch the screw," said the
bacteriologist, "perhaps the
               microscope
is focus for you.
"
7)
"Why should he be so much interestedthose
                cultivations
of cholera germs?"
8)
"Very goodyou to bring my things," he said
to his wife.
9)
In a moment the cab and the bacteriologist, running after it,
disappearedthe
corner.
10)     Down
the street a young man was gettinga cab. I l) Minnie, hearing the
door slam, ran—_alarm to the window.
6.
Say it in your
own words, paying attention to the italicisedparts of the sentences.
I) He was evidently not accustomed to that kind of
thing...
2)
"And yet, these little bacteria may multiply and kill the
population of any great city!. "
3)
He walked across the room and took up one of several sealed
tubes.
4)
 "Yes, here is a great danger imprisoned. "
5)
"I'm sorry I
cannot remain a moment longer. I have an engagement at four.'
6)
The bacteriologist accompanied him to the door...
7)
Suddenly a
disturbing thought struck him.
8)
Then hefelt hastily in his pockets, and then rushed to the door.
9)
Minnie, hearing
the door slam, ran in alarm to the window.
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10)      The
cabman said it in the most matter-of-fact way...
I I) People walking along the street
were astonished, seeing three cabs racing one after the other.
12)   "1 shall
teach those who have neglected me, who have always thought me a man ofno
importance. "
13)   He felt
proud of his clevernes, how brilliantly he had planned the whole
thing:foœed the letter of introduction... 14) Presently a thought
occürred to him.
15)    Then it
dawned upon him that there was nofurther need to escape the
bacteriologist.
16)    Then
something grotesque struck him.
17)    "You see, that man came to my
house to see me. He is an  anarchist. No — don'tfaint, or I shan't be able to tell you the
rest."
Discussion
 Do you know who can
be called "an anarchist"? What's typical of his manner of behaviour
and actions? Are there any anarchists known to you from Russian Literature?
2.
Is the career ofa
bacteriologist prestigious? What are they engaged in? MOuld you like to make a
career ofa bacteriologist? • Why? How is a bacteriologist different from a
biologist?
3.
Make use of the following words and phrases to draw a
sketch-portrait of someone you know. Add some words and phrases of your own.
A pale face (pale-faced); deep grey eyes; a nervous
manner; a slight smile; one's eyes shine; to be eccentric; one's face is a mask
of politeness (fear, exultation, etc.); to speak in a matter-of-fact way.
4.
Do you agree with the bacteriologist's wife that all scienfists
are eccentric and sort of mad because of science?
5.
Narrate the whole story in the person of Minnie, the
bacteriologist's wife.
6.
Add about five to ten sentences, saying what happened to the poor
anarchist after he had swallowed the "blue ruin".
7.
Name the story differently and give your reasoning.

THE BLAST OF THE BOOK
Professor Openshaw was a man of
science. It was his pride to have given his whole life to studying Psychic
Phenomena. He always lost his temper if anybody said that he believed in
ghosts. But he also lost his temper if anybody said that ghosts did not exist.
"I am a man of science," he
said one morning to Father Brown, I who was a friend of his. They were standing
on the steps outside the hotel where both had been breakfasting that morning
and sleeping the night before. The Professor had come back rather late from one
of his experiments. "I am trying, " he continued, "to explain
psychic phenomena scientifically. I've been working on this problem for a long
time. I think a lot of psychic appearances can be explained scientifically. But
cases of disappearance of people are
Father
Brown — narrep bpayH (Kamonuqecycuù C6RUÇHHUK)
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much more difficult to explain. These people in the
newspapers, who vanish and are never found — if you knew the details as I do Only
this morning I have received an extraordinary letter from an old missionary,
quite a respectable old boy. He's coming to see me at my office this
morning. Perhaps you'd lunch with me or something, and I'd tell you the
results. "
"Thanks, I shall," said Father Brown.

They said good-bye to each other and the
Professor walked round the corner to his small office which he used for the
publication of his scientific reports. He had only one clerk, a man named
Berridge, who sat at a desk in the outer office' working at some calculations
for the Professor's report. The Professor paused to ask if Mr. Pringle had
called. The clerk answered mechanically in the negative and went on
mechanically adding up figures. The Professor turned towards his study.
"Oh, by the way,2 Berridge, "
he said without turning round, "if Mr. Pringle comes, send him straight to
me. Go on with your work. I should like to have those notes for my report
finished tonight if possible. You may leave them on my desk tomorrow, if I am
late."
And he went into his study, still
thinking ofthe problem which the letter from Pringle had raised. He sat down in
his large and comfortable chair and read once more the short letter from
Pringle. In this letter Mr. Pringle asked permission to come and see the
Professor about some curious cases of disappearance of people. He knew that the
Professor was interested in psychic problems.
The Professor was surprised when
he looked up and saw that the missionary was already in the room.
"Your clerk told me I was to come
straight in, 3" said Mr. Pringle apologetically, but with a broad grin.
The grin was almost lost in a thick reddish-grey beard and whiskers that
covered the missionary's face. He had a snub nose and frank friendly eyes.
Openshaw was a man ofgreat detective
ability. He could always tell at once if a man was honest or a humbug. He
looked with great attention at his visitor, trying to see what sort of man Mr.
Pringle was.

         I outer omce — KOMHaTa               KnepKa
2 by the way — MeX_ay rup011MM
I was to come straight in — HT06bI fl cpa-gy xe BOUIen
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He could not find anything suspicious about his
appearance. In fact he liked the friendly laughter in Mr.
Pringle's eyes, laughter which is never found in the eyes of real humbugs.

"You probably think, " said
Mr. Pringle, " I am playing a joke on you, I Professor. All the same, I
must tell my story to somebody who knows, because it's true. And, all joking
apart,2 it's tragic as Mell as true. WI, to cut it short 3 | was a missionary
in a small station in
Africa, in the thick ofthe forests. The only other white man
there was the officer in command of the district4 Captain "Wes. He and I
were very friendly soon. One day he came back to his tent in the forest, after
a short leave, and said he wanted to tell me something. He was holding an old
book in a leather binding, and he put it down on the table beside his revolver
and an old Arab sword he had. He said this book had belonged to a man on the
boat which he had just come off. That man had told him that nobody must open
the book, or even look inside it. If anybody did it he would be carried off by
the devil, or disappear.
"Wales said to the man that this was all nonsense, of
course,
and they had a
quarrel. The end ofthe story was very strange. Captain Wales said that the man
did look into the book, and then dropped it and walked to the side of the
boat—"
"One moment," said the
Professor, who had made one or two notes. "Before you tell me anything
else. Did the man tell Wales where he had got the book, or who it belonged
to?"
"Yes, " replied Pringle, now
quite serious. "It seems he said he was bringing it back to Dr. Hankey,
the Oriental traveller5 now in England, to whom the book belonged, and who had
warned the man about the book. The magic of the book was demonstrated when the
man who had looked into it walked straight over the side of the ship and was
never seen again. "
'Do you believe it yourself?" asked
Openshaw after a pause.
 "Well, I do," replied Pringle.
"I believe it for two reasons. First, that Wales was a very truthful man.
He said that the man had

I to play
a joke on (somebody) — pa3b1TPb1BaTb (Koro-JIH60)
2
all joking apart
— 111YTKH B CTOPOHY
3
to cut it short —
Kopoqe roBopH
4
the officer in
command of the district — Hagar1bHHK 0Kpyra
5
Oriental
traveller — nyremeCTBeHHMK no BOCTOLIHb1M
61
03HaK0MwreAb1--ra¶ walked straight
over the side On a still and calm day, but there had been no splash. "
The Professor looked at his notes for
some seconds in silence, and then said, "And your other reason for
believing it?"
"My other reason," answered Mr. Pringle, "is what I saw
myself.'
There was another silence until he
continued again:
"l told you that
Captain Wales had put down the book on the table beside the sword. There was
only one entrance to the tent; and it happened that I was standing in it,
looking out into the forest, with my back to my companion. He was standing by
the table grumbling that it was all nonsense and that it was foolish in the
twentieth century to be frightened of opening a book, asking why the devil he
couldn't open it himself. Then some instinct made me tell him that he had
better not do that, the book had better be returnedl to Dr. Hankey. 'What harm
could it do?' he asked restlessly. 'What harm did it do?' I answered him. 'What
happened to your friend on the boat?' He did not answer; indeed I
did not know what he could answer. ' If it comes to that, '2 | continued, 'what
is your explanation of what really happened on the boat?' Still he did not
answer, and I looked round and saw that he wasn't there.
"The tent was empty. The book was
lying on the table; open, but on its face, as if he had turned it downwards.
But the sword was lying on the ground near the other side ofthe tent; and there
was a great hole in the canvas of the tent, as if somebody had cut his way out
with the sword. I have never seen or heard of Captain Wales from that day.
I wrapped the
book up in brown paper,3 taking good care4 not to look at it; and I
brought it back to England, intending at first to return it to Dr. Hankey. Then
I saw a report in your paper suggesting a hypothesis about such things; and I
decided to stop on the way and put the matter before you.

I that he had
better not do that, the book had better be returned — '-ITO ew
Jlyqu_le íbl He OTKPb1BaTb KHHry, a BepHYTb ee
2
ifit comes
to that — ecJIH yx COBOPHTb OTKPOBeHHO
3
brown paper
— 06eproqHaq 6YMara
4
taking good
care — npHHHB BCe Mepbl npeaocTop0*HocTH put the matter before you — M3JIOXMTb
BCC aeno BaM
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Professor Openshaw
laid down his pen and looked attentively at the man on the
other side of the table. He had met many different types of humbugs, and even
some eccentric and extraordinary types of honest men. In the ordinary way he
would have begun with the healthy hypothesis that the story was a pack of lies.
I Yes, the best hypothesis would be to say that the story
was a pack of lies! And yet, he could not make himselfbelieve that the man was
simply a liar. The man was not trying to look honest as most humbugs do. It
seemed that he was honest in spite of2 the queerness of the story.
"Mr. Pringle," said the
Professor sharply, "where is the book
The grin reappeared on the bearded face
which had become quite serious during the recital of the story.
"l left it outside, " said Mr.
Pringle. "I mean in the outer office. It was a risk, perhaps; but the less
risk of the two."
"What do you mean?" demanded
the Professor. "Why didn't you bring it straight in here?"
"Because, " answered the
missionary, "I knew that as soon as you saw it, you would open it — before
you had heard the story. I thought it possible you might think twice about
opening it — after you'd heard the story. "
Then after a silence he added,
"There was nobody out there, only your clerk; and he looked a dull honest
man busy with his calculations. "
"Oh, Berridge, " laughed the
Professor, "your magic book is safe enough3 with him, I'm quite sure. He
is just a Calculating Machine. Human like him4 ifyou can call him a human
being, would never
think of opening other people's brown paper parcels. Let's
go and get the book now. I'll tell you frankly that I
am not quite sure whether we ought to open it here and now or send it to Dr.
Hankey."
The two had passed together out of the
Professor's study into the outer office; and even as they did so, Mr. Pringle
gave a cry and ran forward towards the clerk's desk. For the clerk's desk was
there; but

a pack of
lies — CWIOLLIHOe BpaHbe
2
in spite of —
HeCMOTPfl Ha
3
is safe enough —
HaXOAMTCH B AOCTaTOHHOVf 6e30naCHOCTM
4
human beings like
him — TIK)AH, non06Hb1e ew
63
031--1aK0MwreAb1--ra¶ not the clerk. On
the clerk's desk lay an old leather-bound book. It was lying closed, but as if
it had just been opened. The clerk's desk stood against the wide window that
looked out into the street; and the window was broken. The large hole in the
glass looked as if a human body had just passed through it. There was no other
trace of Mr. Berridge.
The two men stood as still as statues,
and then it was the Professor who slowly came to life. He turned and held out
his hand to the missionary.
"Mr. Pringle, " he said,
"I beg your pardon. I beg your pardon only for thoughts that I have had.
But nobody could call himself a scientific man and not face a fact like this.
"
"l suppose, " said Mr. Pringle, "that we
should ring up his house

and find out if he has gone home.
"I don't know if he's on the
phone, I " answered Openshaw. "He lives somewhere up Hampstead way,2
1 think. But I suppose somebody will ask for him here, if his friends or family
miss him. '
"Could we give a description of him
if the police want it?" asked the other.
"The police!" said the
Professor. "A description. — Well, he looked just like everybody else. He
wore glasses. One of those clean-shaven fellows. But the police... look here,
what are we to do about this mad business?"
'I know what I ought
to do, " said the missionary firmly. "I am going to take this book to
Dr. Hankey and ask him what the devil it's all about.3 He lives not very far
from here, and I'll come straight back and tell you what he will say."
"Oh, very well," said the
Professor at last, ashe sat down. He was tired, and long after the quick
footsteps of the missionary had died away down the street outside, the
Professor sat in the same position, staring at the wall and thinking hard.
He was still in the same seat and
almost in the same position, when the same quick steps were heard in the street
outside and the missionary entered, this time with empty hands.

I to be on the (tele)phone — HMeTb
•renecþ0H y ce6q AOMa

2 somewhere up Hampstead way — rae-T0 HeAa-neK0 0T X3MCTeaa
(MY 0Kpye J10HÒOHa) what the devil it's all about — B qeM, qepT B03bMH, Tyr Aeno
64
"Dr. Hankey," said Mr. Pringle,
"wants to keep the book for an hour and think over the matter. Then he
asks us both to call on him and hewill give us his decision. He very much
desired, Professor, that you should accompany me on the second visit. '
Openshaw continued to stare in silence;
then he said, suddenly:
"Who the devil is Dr. Hankey?"
'Do you mean 'is he the devil?"'
said Pringle smiling. "I am sure some people have thought so. He is a
scientific man like you. He has lived in India for a long time and studied
magic there, so perhaps he is not so well known here. He's a thin yellow-faced
man with a lame leg and he loses his temper very easily. Still I don't know
anything definitely wrong about him. "
Professor Openshaw rose heavily and went
to the telephone; he rang up Father Brown and invited him to come to dinner
instead of lunch; after that he sat down again, lit a cigar and concentrated

his mind once more on this strange case.
Father Brown waited in the vestibule
ofthe restaurant to which he had been invited by the Professor. He waited there
for quite a long time. At last Openshaw and Pringle appeared and it was clear
that the Professor was terribly excited by the strange things he had just seen
and heard.
They had found Dr. Hankey's house; they
had found on the door a brass-plate with the name: "J. D. Hankey, M. D.
l" Only they did not find J. D. Hankey himself. What they did find was
that terrible book lying on the table in the parlour, as if had just been read.
They also found a back door wide-open and a few foot-marks on the ground. It
was a lame man that had run out2 ofthe house. It was clear from the foot-marks
themselves. There were only a few of them and then... nothing. There was
nothing else to be learnt3 from Dr. J. D.

I M. D. — Doctor of Medicine
2
it was a lame man
that had run out — TOAbKO xpoM0ii qeJ10BeK Mor TaK
Bb16eraTb
3
there was nothing
else to be learnt — 60J1b1_ne 6b1JIO Y3HaTb Heqero
65

Hankey, except that he had made his decision. He had read
the book and received the punishment.
Wien the two came into the entrance
under the palms, Pringle put the book down suddenly on a table, as if it burned
his fingers. The priest glanced at it curiously. On the front page there was a
couplet:
 They that looked into this book
Them the
Flying Terror took. 1
Under these lines there were
translations of the couplet into Greek, Latin and French.
Openshaw called to the waiter and he brought cocktails to them.
"You will dine with us, I hope,
" said the Professor to the missionary. But Mr. Pringle shook his head.
' Ifyou 'Il forgive
me, " he said, "I'm going offto think over the whole business. Could
I use your office for an hour or so?"
"I suppose — I'm afraid it's
locked," said Openshaw in some surprise.
"You forget there's a hole in the
window, " said the missionary. He gave the very broadest of all his broad
grins and vanished into the darkness outside.
"A rather odd fellow, " said the Professor.
 When he turned to Father Brown he was
rather surprised to find him talking to the waiter who had brought the cocktails.
The talk was about the waiter's baby who had been ill and was out ofdanger now.
" How did you come to know the man? "2 asked the Profesor.
 "Oh, I dine here every two or three
months and I've talked to him now and then,3" was the answer.
The Professor, who himselfdined there
about five times a week, had never even thought of talking to the waiter.
At this moment a telephone was
heard ringing and a few seconds later the Professor was called to it. The voice
on the telephone said it was Pringle.
They that looked into this book them the Flying Terror took.
— KTO KHMry 3TV OTKPbIBWl, JIeTYHMÿ1 Yxac Tex YMHŒI.
2 How did you come to know the man? —
KaKMM 06pa30M Bbl MOL'IH n03HaKOMMTbCfl C 3THM qeJ10BeKOM?
now and
then — BpeMfl 0T BpeMt2HM
66

"Professor, " said the voice,
"l can't stand it any longer.] I'm going to look into the book for myself.
I'm speaking from your office and the book is in front of me. If anything
happens to me, this is to say good-bye. No — it's no use trying to stop me.2
You wouldn't be in time. I'm opening the book now. I
Openshaw thought he heard something like
a crash. Then he shouted the name of Pringle again and again, but he heard no
more. He hung up the receiver, went back and quietly took his seat at the
dinner-table. Then, as calmly as he could, he told the priest every detail of
this monstrous mystery.
"Five men have disappeared in this
impossible way," he said. "Every case is extraordinary. But the most
extraordinary is the case of my clerk, Berridge. It's just because he was the
quietest creature that his case is the queerest one.
"Yes," replied Father Brown,
"it was a queer thing for Berridge to do. He was always so careful to keep
all the office business separate from any fun of his own.3 Why, I'm sure nobody
knew he was quite a humorist at home and —"
" Berridge!" cried the
Professor. "What on earth are you talking about? Did you know him?"
"Oh, no," said Father Brown
carelessly, "only as I know the waiter. I've often had to wait in your
office; and of course I talked to him. He was rather a character, 4 and even
eccentric, I should say."
"I'm not sure what you're talking
about," said Openshaw. "But even if my clerk was eccentric (and I've
never known a man who would be less eccentric than Berridge), it doesn't explain
what happened to him. And it certainly can't explain the other cases of
disappearance. '
"What other cases?" asked the priest.
The Professor stared at him and spoke
slowly and loudly as if to a child.
I can't
stand it any longer — H He Mory 60J1bU_1e ynepxaTbcq
2     it's no use trying to stop me —
6ecnone3H0 npeanpHHMMaTb nonblTKH
HOMemaTb MHe
3     to keep all the office business
separate from any fun of his own — 3ò.
'-IT06b1 pa3w1eqeHHH He Mewaruvt ero pa60Te
4     he was rather a character — OH 6b1J1,
6eccnopH0, MHTepecH0ii nnqHOCTb10 (OPHEHHWIOM)
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" My dear Father Brown, five men have disappeared.
"
"My dear Professor Openshaw, no men have disappeared.
Father Brown stared backl at the
Professor and spoke as slowly and as loudly.
' I say that no men have disappeared," he repeated.
After a moment's silence he added:
"I suppose the hardest thing is
to prove that 0+0+0=0. Men believe the oddest things sometimes. But in your
case there is a very weak point. "
"What do you mean?"
"You saw nobody
vanish. You did not see the man vanish from the boat. You did not see the man
vanish from the tent. You have simply taken the word2 of Mr. Pringle. And I'm
sure you would never have taken his word if your clerk had not disappeared.
"That may be true," said the Professor slowly.
"You say I saw
nothing myself. But I did; I saw my own clerk disappear.
Berridge did disappear. '
"Berridge did not disappear,"
said Father Brown. "On the contrary. 3

          "What
the devil do you mean by 'on the contrary .
'l mean, " said
Father Brown, "that he never disappeared. He appeared.'
Openshaw stared across at his friend but the priest went
on:
" He appeared in your study,
disguised in a thick red beard and introduced himself as missionary Pringle.
And you had never noticed your own clerk enough to recognise him when he was in
so roughand-ready4 a disguise. "
" But listen, " began the Professor.
'Could you describe
him to the police?" asked Father Brown. "Not you!5 You knew perhaps
that he was clean-shaven and wore glasses. Taking off those glasses was a
better disguise than putting on anything else. You had never seen his
eyes, his laughing eyes. He had put his absurd book on the table in your
office. Then he calmly broke

I stared back — B CBOIO oqepeAb
YCTaBWICH

2
to take the word
— 110BepHTb Ha CJIOBO
3
On the contrary.
— HanpoTHB (Ha060POT).
4
rough-and-ready —
CaenaHHb1iÍ KOe-KaK, Hacnex 5 Not you! — TOJ1bKO He Bbl!
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the window, put on the beard and walked into your study,
knowing very well that you had never looked at him in your life
"But why should he have played such
a mad trick on me?" demanded Openshaw.
"Why, because
you had never looked at him in your life, " said Father Brown. "You
called him the Calculating Machine, because that was all you ever used him for.
You never found out that he was a character, that he had his own views on you
and your theories. You thought you could see through anybody. Can't you see his
mad desire to prove that you could not see through your own clerk? Don't you
know the story of the woman who bought two most useless things: an old doctor's
brass-plate and a wooden leg? With those two things your clerk created the
character of Dr. Hankey. He did it as easily as he created the character of
Captain Wales. He placed the brass-plate with the name of 'Dr. Hankey' on the
door of his own house
'Do you mean that the place we visited up
Hampstead Road was Berridge's own house?" asked Openshaw.
"Did you know his house — or even
his address?" said the priest. "Look here, I think highly of you and
your work. You have seen through a lot of liars. But don't only look at liars.
Sometimes do look at honest men — like the waiter.
"Where is Berridge now?" asked
the Professor after a long silence.
'I haven't
the least doubt, " said Father Brown, "that he is back in your
office. In fact,l he came back into your office at the exact moment when Mr.
Pringle read the awful book and disappeared.'
There was another long silence and then
Professor Openshaw laughed. He laughed with the laugh of a great man who is
great enough to look small .2 Then he said:

I suppose I do deserve it; for not
noticing the nearest helpers I have. But don't you think that all those
incidents coming one after the other could frighten anybody? Did you never
feel, just for a moment only, that you were frightened of that awful
book?"
"Oh, that,"
said Father Brown. "I opened the book as soon as I saw it lying there.
It's all blank pages.
in fact — (baKTHqeCKH
2 who is
great enough to look small — Koropblii AOCTaTOHHO BCJIHK, qT06b1
1103BOJIMTb ce6e                            Ma-vreHbKHM (qeJIOBeKOM)
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Exercises
Comprehension Check
l.       Say who in this story:
l) had given his whole life to studying Psychic
Phenomena. 2) received an extraordinary letter from
an old missionary.
3)
went into his study, still thinking of the problem which the
letter from Pringle had raised.
4)
could always tell at once if a man was honest or a humbug.
5)
told Mr. Pringle that nobody must open the book, or even look
inside it.
6)
couldn't make
himself believe that the man was simply a liar.
7)
stood as still as statues.
8)
rose heavily and
went to the telephone to ring up Father Brown and invite him to come to dinner
instead of lunch.
9)
put the book down suddenly on a table, as if it burned his
fingers.
10)
as calmly as he could, told the priest every detail of this
mysterious story.
11)
had a mad desire to prove that the Professor couldn't not see
through his own clerk.
12)
laughed with the laugh ofa great man who is great enough to look
small.
2.
Say who in this
star-y said it and in connection with what.
l) "I think a lot of psychic
appearances can be explained scientifically. But cases of disappearance of
people are much more difficult to explain."
2)
"Oh, by the way, Berridge, if Mr. Pringle comes, send him
straight to me."
3)
"You probably think I am playing a joke on you, Professor.
All the same, I must tell my story to somebody who knows, because it's true.'
4)
"He said
this book had belonged to a man on the boat which he had just come off. That
man told him that nobody
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must open the book, or even look
inside it. If anybody did it he would be carried off by the devil, or disappear. "

5)
"I left it outside, I mean in the outer office. It was a
risk, perhaps; but the less risk of the two. '
6)
"Oh, Berridge. Your magic book is safe enough with him, I'm
quite sure.'
7)
 "I know what I ought to do. I am
going to take this book to Dr. Hankey and ask him what the devil it's all
about.'

8)
"You forget there's a hole in the window. '
9)
"Professor, I can't stand it any longer. I'm going to look  into
the book for myself. "
10)
"He was rather a character, and even eccentric, I should
say. "
I l) "You saw nobody vanish...
You have simply taken the word of Mr. Pringle.'
12)
"You called him the Calculating Machine, because that was
all you ever used him for. "
13)
"I suppose I do deserve it..."
14)
"I opened the
book as soon as I saw it lying there. It's all blank pages. "
3.
Say true, false
or I don't know„
l) Professor Openshaw was very proud
to have given all his life to studying Physics.
2)
He never lost his temper if anybody said that he believed in
ghosts.
3)
It's easy to explain psychic appearances, but cases of
disappearance of people are much more difficult to be explained scientifically.
4)
Mr. Berridge was
called a Walking Encyclopaedia by the Professor.
5)
The Professor paid very little attention to the letter which  he
had received from Mr. Pringle.
6)
The Professor was very much of a detective and could always tell
an honest person from a humbug.
7)
Mr. Pringle used to be an officer in a small station in West
Africa.
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8)
Mr. Pringle didn't know who had brought that old book in a
leather binding.
9)
The professor believed in Mr. Pringle's story without any shade
of doubt.
10)
The clerk disappeared from the office through the window.
I l) When they found Dr. Hankey's
house, luckily Dr. Hankey was ln.
12)    Mr.
Pringle wanted to throw away the strange book.
13)    It was a
very extraordinary case, because five men had disappeared.
14)    The
Professor's clerk was a very clever man, always ready to play some practical
jokes.
15)    The
Professor was badly offended by this joke.
4.
Finish up the
following sentences based on the story.
l) He always lost his temper if
anybody said that he believed in ghosts. But he also lost his temper
2)
I am a man of science," he said one morning to Father Brown,
who was a friend of his. They were standing

3)
The Professor walked round the corner to his small office
which he used for the publication of his scientific reports. He had only
4)
The Professor went into his study, still thinking of the problem
which the letter from Pringle raised. In this letter
5)
Openshaw was a man of great detective ability. He could always
tell at once
6)
One day Captain Wales came back to his tent in the forest, after
a short leave, and said he wanted to tell me something. He was holding
7)
'Did the man tell Wales where he had got the book, or who it
belonged to?"
"Yes," replied Pringle, now quite serious.
"It seems he said
8)
'I wrapped the book up in brown paper, taking good care not to
look at it; and I brought it back to England, in72
tending at first to return it to Dr. Hankey. Then I saw a report
9)
"Why didn't you bring it straight here?"
demanded the Professor.
                 "Because, "                  answered
the missionary, "I knew
10)
Mr. Pringle gave a cry and ran forward towards the clerk's desk.
For
11)
"Who the
devil is Dr. Hankey?"
"Do you mean 'is he the devil?"' said Pringle
smiling. "l am sure some people have thought so. He is
12)
Only they did not find J. D. Hankey himself. What they did find
13)
"You called him the Calculating Machine, because that was
all you ever used him for. You never found out that

14)
There was another long pause and then Professor Open shaw
laughed. He laughed
5.
Answer the
following questions.

 1) was Professor Openshaw
studying?
2)
Once he received a very extraordinary letter from a young lady,
didn't he?
3)
Why did the Professor pay so little attention to his assistant
who worked in the outer office?
4)
 What was the purpose of Mr. Pringle's
coming?
5)
What do we come
to know about Mr. Pringle himself from the first pages of the story?
6)
was the first to disappear according to
the old missionary's story? How did it happen?
7)
Why did Professor Openshaw believe every word the missionary told
him?
8)
Why did the Professor think that the magic book was absolutely
safe with his clerk, Mr. Berridge?
9)
What nickname did he give him? Why?
10)
What happened to the poor clerk? Was it a real shock to the
Professor?
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11)
Who did the Professor and Mr. Pringle go to for explanation?
12)
Why did the Professor say that all the cases of disappearance
were queer, but the most extraordinary one is the
case of his clerk?
13)
What did Father Brown mean when he said that the clerk had never
disappeared, but, on the contrary, he had appeared?
14)
What advice did Father Brown give to the Professor? Did it help
him to change his attitude to people?
15)
What sort of book did it turn out to be after all? Was there
anything magic about it?
Working with the Vocabulary
1.
Say it in one
word.
To disappear without leaving any traces (to v
different mathematical actions
a dishonest person, a person who tells lies (a a person who is
sent usually to a foreign country to teach and to spread religion (a
to let somebody know about something, usually unpleasant,
beforehand (to w a weapon with a long sharp metal blade and
a handle (a

to say something not clearly under one's
nose, especially when one is dissatisfied (to
a wide smile
which usually shows the teeth (a g__); two times to look at
somebody very attentively, steadily (to something like
clothes, make-up, wigs that help people make themselves unrecognisable (a pages
on which nothing is written (b a loud sound made when something is being broken
(c something strange or funny or unpleasant,
happening to you or somebody else (in—). 74
2.
Check the pronunciation ofthe following words with the dictionary.
Psychic, scientifically,
missionmy, calculations, apologetically, whiskers, suspicious, Oriental, sword,
wrapped, queerness, recital, honest, clerk, permission,
quietly, disguise, doubt, machine, experiment, vestibule, parlour, absurd,
hypothesis.
3.
Observe the
differuuce in the use of the verbs to rise and to lie on the one hand and to
raise and to lay on the other. The first two are never followed by an object,
while the other two should always take a direct object. Fill in the gaps in the
following sentences, choosing between these verbs.
l) The Professor went into his study, still thinking of
the  problem which the letter from Pringle had
l ) Professor Openshaw     heavily and went to the telephone.
2)
 "The tent was empty. The book wason the table; open, but on its face. "
3)
'But the sword wason the ground near the other side of
the tent.
4)
Professor Openshawdown
his pen and looked attentively at the man.
5)
On the clerk's deskan old leather book.

6)
It wasclosed,
but as if it had just been opened. 7) They didn't find J. D. Hankey himself.
What they did find was that terrible book on the table in the parlour.
8) "Did you never feel, just for
a moment only, that you were frightened by that awful book?" "Oh, that,"
said Father
Brown. "I opened the book as soon as I saw it there. It's all
blank pages,
4.
Make the list of
a) synonyms and b) antonyms occurring in this story, to the words given below.
a)        a
man of science — a scientist
to disappear to pause
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to add
up figures —    5.      Form the indicated parts of speech from the words
below. to call on —
curious —       Pride       (an adjective); to describe — (a
noun); to calculate —        (a noun); queer — a liar —
(a noun); to appear — (a noun);
scientist — to look inside the book             — (an adverb); a
grin —
(an adjective) to reply —
(a verb); a friend (an adjective);
truth — to look attentively —       — recite —
(an adjective); health    (an
adjective); to to decide         decide —
(a noun); busy (a noun); to to lay down —    — (a noun); din-
(a noun); to accompany a smile —

frank —

to apologise —

6.

Find the following phrases in the
  text and make up a situation to use

terribly to look at

them in it.

to have dinner —

To lose one's temper; to ask permission; to find smth
  suspi-

now and then —

cious
  in; in fact; all joking apart; to cut it short; to stop on

to put down the receiver —

one's
  way; to put the matter before; a pack of lies; the window

to play a joke on

looks
  out into the street (backyard); to wear glasses; to be dis-

to suppose — to have breakfast —

guised in; I haven't the
  least doubt; blank pages.

to bring back —

7.

Use appropriate prepositions in the following sentences.

a hypothesis — to look out into the street
  —

I ) He always lost his temper if
  anybody said that he believed ghosts.

b)

to appear — to disappear

2) "I've been working  this problem for a long time.
  "(2 versions)

to take off -7

3)
  In this letter Mr. Pringle asked permission to come and

extraordinary —

see the Professor some curious cases of disap-

to ask —

pearance of people.

possible —

4) "You probably think I'm playing a jokeyou."

a humbug

5)

The book belonged to the Oriental traveller now in Eng-

to continue —

land, who had warned the manthe book.

to open —

6)

"I believe ittwo reasons.

foolish

7)

'There
  was nobody out there, only your clerk; and he

a bearded face

looked a dull honest man
  busy    his calcula-

to stand as still as statues —

tions.'

careful —

8)

"Dr. Hankey wants to keep the
  book for an hour and

ner — (a verb); curious (an adverb); to be out of danger — — a desire
— (a verb). a disguise (a verb);
appearance
—                                                                     thinkthe
matter.
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9) After that he sat down again, lit a cigar
and concentrated         2) He sat down in his large andchair and read

       his mind once morethis strange
  case.
10) The talk was about the
  waiter's baby who had been ill and

once more the short letter from Pringle.
a) convenient

       was                danger now.                                                     b)
suitable

and announced himself as missionary Pringle.
5)
  ' I thought it possible you might think twice about opening it
  — after you've heard the story. "
6)
  The two men stood as still as statues, and then it was the
  Professor who slowly came to life
7)
  'I don't know
  if he is on the phone, " answered Openshaw.
8)
  And he went into his study, still thinking of the problem which
  the letterfrom Mr. Pringle raised.
9.        Choose to complete the following sentences.
t) "You
  may leave them on my desk tomorrow, if I late. '
a)   am
b)   will be
c)   was
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a)   beside
b)   besides
7)
  "Then some instinct made mehim that he had better not do
  that, the book had better be returned to Dr. Hankey. "
a)  to tell
b)  tell
       c) telling
8)
  "What harm could it 9." he asked restlessly.
  "What harm did it
a)  make
b)  do
9)
  "What happenedyour friend on the boat?"
a)  with
b)  to
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11) "What                    earth are you talking about? Did you                    c)
comfortable

know him?"
12) "You never found                 that
  he was a character, that

3)

He could not find

suspicious in his appear-

ance.
      he had his own views               you and your
theories. "       a) nothing
13)
"Look here, I think highly      you and your work. "     b)
anything
14)
"It seemed that he was honest spite         c) something

the queerness of the story. "

4)

That
  man told him that nobody must open the book, or

8.

Say it in your own words, paying attention to the italicised parts.

even look inside
  it. Ifdid it he would be carried off by the devil.

l) "You have simply taken the word of Mr. Pringle. And I'm

a) somebody

sure you would have never taken his word,
  if your clerk

b) anybody

had not disappeared. "

c) nobody

2) The clerk answered mechanically in the negative and went

5)

"One moment," said the Professor, who had

on working mechanically adding up figures.

one or two notes.

3) "You thòught that you could
  see through anybody. Can't

a) made

you see his mad desire to prove that you
  could not see

b) done

through your own clerk?"

6)

"I
  told you that Captain Wales put down the book on the

4) " He appeared in
  your study, disguised in a thick red beard

tablethe sword.

10)
The grin reappeared on the bearded face which had become quite
seriousthe recital of
the story.
a)     at     4)
b)    while
c)
during5)
11)
"Could we give a description ofhim ifthe police it?" asked
Mr. Pringle.   6)
a)
wants b) want
7)
"Myreason" , answered Mr. Pringle, "is what
I saw myself. "
"The book was lying on the table; open... But the sword

was lying on the ground nearside of the tent.
" Professor Openshaw laid down his pen and looked at-
tentively at the man onside of the table.
"Human beings like him, if you can call him a human
being, would never think of opening people's brown paper parcels. "

c) are wanting 8) "I suppose that we should ring up his
  house," said Mr. 12) He was ( I), and long after the quick
  footsteps had died away down the street outside, Pringle."I don't know
  if he is on the telephone, " answered Openof the missionary the
  Professor sat in the same position, staring at the wall
Shaw.
       and thinking                                                                                "Could
  we give a description of him if the police want
(l) a) tied                                                                                it?"
  asked

b)
  tired  9) "But even if my clerk was
  eccentric (and I never knew (2) a) hardly a man who would be less eccentric
  than Berridge), it b) hard doesn't explain what happened to him. And it certain13)
  They also found the back door open andfoot- ly can't explain cases of
  disappearance," said

       marks on the ground.                                                                                Openshaw.
       a) few                                                             b)
  a few                                       "What                cases?"
  asked the priest.
c)
  little d) a little 10) There was long silence and then
  Professor 14) He
  up the receiver, went back and quietly took Openshaw laughed.
his seat at the dinner-table.
a)    hung
b)   hanged      Discussion
15) "Look here, I thinkof you and your
  work. "

There was notrace of Mr. Berridge.

a) highly

2. b) high
10.      Fill in the•gaps, choosing from other, another, the
other, others, the     3. others.
4. l ) They said good-bye to each and the Professor
walked round the corner to his small office. 5.
2)
onlywhite man there
was the officer in command of the district Captain Wales.
6.
3)
"And yourreason for believing it?"
Explain what the implication of the title of the story is. In
fact how many characters are there in it? Give sketchportraits of each of them.
Do you sympathise with the Professor or do you envy him his
views on life?
What other practical joke would you have played on the
Professor if you had been in his clerk's place? Have you ever met people who
thought that they could see through others?
While reading the story didn't it come to your mind that
Mr. Pringle, Dr. Hankey and Mr. Berridge, the Profes-

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person? Are there any hints in the story that might lead to such a conclusion?
7.
Comment on the following phrase from the story: "There was
another long silence and then Professor Openshaw laughed. He laughed with the
laugh of a great man who is great enough to look small." Do you agree that
only great people can laugh at their faults and defects without putting
themselves down? Give your reasoning.
8.
Don't you think that Gilbert Chesterton drew a very close-to-life
portrait ofa scientist, interested only in his science and in nothing else?
Give your reasoning.
9.
But for criminal cases, how do scientists explain cases of
disappearance of some people nowadays? Is it scientifically proved?
10.      Do
you happen to know anything about this short story writer? If not, try to find
some information on him.
I I. Did you enjoy reading the story or did you find it
boring?
12.    Act out
the dialogue between Professor Openshaw and Father Brown, when the latter was
explaining the Professor the "mystery" of his clerk's
disappearance.
13.    Narrate
the whole story in the person of the clerk. Share your emotions and feelings for
the Professor.

THE TREMENDOUS ADVENTURE OF MAJOR BROWN
Major Brown, a little man with a large
head and a black moustache, went out for his after-dinner walk one bright
afternoon. Some time before Major Brown had retired from the army and now lived
on a small pension. He had never liked being a military man, I so he took a
small house in a quiet London street with the greatest pleasure. He devoted the
rest of his life to growing his favourite flowers — pansies — in his little
garden.
As the Major was slowly walking along a
narrow street, he saw an old heavy man pushing before him a barrow full of
pansies. The Major had never seen such beautiful flowers. He came up to the old
man
and began to talk to him.

   I he had never liked being a military man —  HHKoraa He HPaBHJIOCb
6b1Tb BOeHHb1M
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"I'll tell you,
sir," said the man. "If you're interested in such "I'm at your
service, "l said the Major and jumped down on flowers, you just get onto
that wall. the grass beside the man.
             "On the wall?" cried
the scandalised Major. He could not even     Suddenly the old man turned his
back and ran towards the

think of doing such a fantastic thing.    house. The Major
followed him with quick steps. The man stopped  "The finest
collection ofyellow pansies in England is in that gar-  before a closed door
and turned to the Major a face full of terror. den, sir, " whispered the
man with the barrow. " I'll help you up, sir. "   "For Heaven's
sake2 don't mention jackals. "
How it happened no one will ever know,
but the fact is that a Then he threw open the door and ran back the way they
had second later the Major was standing on the garden wall. And the next come.

moment he forgot everything.The Major stepped into
a richly furnished room, hat in hand. In the very centre of the garden he saw a
large bed of the most The only person he saw3 in that room was a lady, sitting
by the window, beautiful yellow pansies. Yes, the old man was right. That was
the looking out. She had red hair and was dressed in a green dress. finest
collection of pansies in England!" Madam, " said the Major,
bowing simply, "I'm Major Brown. " Bu€it was not only the beauty of
the flowers that surprised him. I "Sit down," said the lady; but she
did not turn her head.

It was something else: the pansies were arranged in
gigantic letters'l have come, Madam," he said,
"to know what the matter which formed the sentence: "Death to Major
Brown ". Another old is. To know why my name is written across your garden.
And I must man was watering the flowers. Brown looked back at the road behind
tell you that the inscription is not at all friendly. " him. The man with
the barrow had suddenly disappeared. Then he "You know, I must not turn
round, " said the lady. "Every aflooked again at the flower-bed with
that terrible inscription.  ternoon till six o'clock I must keep my
face to the street.'
The evening
air was still, the garden was quiet and beautiful. The major did not understand
the riddle but tried not to show Why were those little flowers crying for his
blood?2 Perhaps that was his surprise.
somebody's
practical joke? But if it was a joke, it was a very expen-                                                                 "Well,"
he said, "it's almost six. "

sive one: such art arrangement of flowers must be terribly
expensive. At that moment the clock upon the wall began to strike the And who
would pour out money like water just for a practical joke hour. At the sixth
stroke the lady jumped up and turned to the major. against him?  He saw one
of the most beautiful faces he had ever seen in his life.
Suddenly the old man who
was watering the pansies looked up, 'I have been waiting for three years
"4 she cried. "This is an annisaw the Major, and the watering-can
fell from his hand. versary. And I wish the terrible thing would happen once
and for all.5"
"Who are you?" he cried shaking with fear. As
she spoke a sudden terrible cry was heard. From the paveI am Major: Brown,
" said the old officer, who was always cool ment of the dark street a
voice cried out:
in the hour of danger.          " Major Brown, Major
Brown, where does the jackal live?"
The old man stared at
him. With his wide-open mouth he  "It is the end," cried the lady
with trembling lips, "it may be looked like some large fish. At last he
said, "Come down, come  death for both of us. ' down here!"      Another
cry from the dark street broke her speech'.

I I'm at
your service. — K BaU_1HM ycnyraM.
But it was not only the beauty of the flouers that surprised
him. — Ho ero 2 for Heaven's sake — paau Bcero CB¶Toro nopa3HJ1a He TOJ1bKO
Kpacom UBeTOB. (Oãopom it was not ... that ynompeõ- 3 the only he
saw — eAHHCTBeHHb1ÿ1 qeY10BeK, KOTOPOro OH ymuen ngemcq ðnq ycu,WH11R
3HaqeHun Kaxoeo-nu60 'Laena4 | have been waiting for three years. — yuy yxe TPM roaa.
2 Why were those little nowers crying for his blood? —
Iloqen.ty 9TH UBe-         5 And I wish the terrible thing would happen once
and for all. — H q 6b1J1a TOHKM xaxnajll-l ero KPOBH?         661 Aaxe paga,
eCJIH 6bI 3T0 yxacHoe C06b1Tøe HaKOHe1_1 np0H30fflA0.
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"Major Brown, Major Brown, how did the jackal die?"
Brown threw open the door and ran out
into the street. It was quite empty. Even the brave Major was a little
frightened. He returned to the house, but as soon as he had entered the
drawing-room, the terrible voice was heard again:
"Major Brown, Major Brown, where did —"
In a second Brown was in the street
again, and he was in time —  in time to see something, which at first
glance froze his blood. The cries appeared to come froml a head resting on the
pavement.
The next moment the pale Major understood. It was the head of a
man hidden in the cellar of the house. He had put out his head through the
coal-hole in the street.
The Major returned to the lady.
"Where is your coal cellar?"
he cried. She looked at him with frightened grey eyes.
"You will not go down, " she exclaimed,
"alone, into the dark hole, with that beast?"
'Is this the
way?" replied Brown, and descended the kitchen stairs. He pushed the door
of the coal cellar and stepped in, feeling in his pocket for matches. As his
right hand was occupied, a pair of gigantic hands came out of the darkness and
seized him by the back ofhis head. They bent his head down, down in the
complete darkness ofthe cellar. But although the Major's head was upside down,2
it was perfectly clear. He put out one of his long strong arms and grabbed the
leg ofthe invisible enemy. He pulled it offthe ground, and laid the giant, with
a crash, along the floor. The man tried to rise, but Brown was on top of him
like a cat. They rolled over and over. It was soon quite clear that the
invisible giant now wanted only to escape. But the Major was holding him by the
coat collar and was not going to let him out of the cellar. Suddenly the
giant's coat buttons burst, and, leaving his torn coat in the Major's hands, he
ran out of the cellar.
This coat was the only real clue to
the mystery, for when the Major came out of the cellar, the lady and most of
the rich furniture of the house disappeared.
the cries appeared to come from —
KPHK, 110-BHAHMOMY, HCXOAHJI OT (cyõöŒmHb1ù
UHØUHUmU8Hb1Ù oóopom)
2 although the Major's head was upside down — XOTH rOJIOBa
Maiiopa 6b1J1a onyu_1eHa BHH3 (õYK8. nepeBepHyra)
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This time the Major did not know what to
think or what to do next. He looked about him almost in despair.
"1 must go and see Rupert Grant at once, " he
decided.
Rupert Grant was a young but very clever
private detective. He lived in a small cottage with his brother Basil. Basil
Grant had been a judge by profession for a very long time. The two brothers
were quite different. Basil was fond of poetry and art while Rupert liked his
detective work and was sure that some day he would become as famous as Sherlock
Holmes.
When the Major finished the story ofhis
mysterious adventures he noticed that the reaction of the brothers was
different. Rupert's eyes were full of excitement while the blue melancholy eyes
of Basil were closed as if in sleep.
"The lady was in the conspiracy, I of course,"
said Rupert.
Major Brown's face turned very red.
"I beg your pardon," he said. "I think not.
"
Rupert raised his eyebrows in surprise
and looked at him for a moment but said nothing. When he spoke again he asked:
"Was there anything in the pockets of the coat?"
"Yes," said the Major,
"there was some small change,2 a cigarette-holder, and this letter."
He laid it on the table. It ran as follows:3
"Dear Mr. Plover,
I am sorry to hear that some delay has
occurred in the arrangements relating t04 Major Brown. Please see that he is
attacked5 tomorrow, as we have arranged. The coal cellar, of course.
Yours faithfully,
P. G. Northover."

I the lady was in the conspiracy — XeH111HHa 6b1J1a
C0061UHHUeÈi
2
small
change — Mej1KVfe neHbrM
3
it ran as follows
— OHO rJ1aCHJ10
4
| am sorry to
hear that some delay has occurred in the arrangements relating to — q c Y3HaJ1
oropqeHneM 0 3aaepxKe B OCyueCTBJueHVIH Hawero
IWIaHa
5
see that he is
attacked — npocnenure 3a TeM, YT06b1 HanaaeHHe Ha
Hero 6b1JIO
npoBegeH0
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'Is there an address?" asked Rupert.
"No — oh, yes!" replied Brown,
looking at the paper. " 14, Tanner's Court. "
"Then, why are we waiting
here?" cried Rupert impatiently. 'Let's start immediately. Basil, give me
your revolver. "
Basil was still sitting with his eyes
closed. It was some time before he answered, "I don't think you will need
it. "
"Perhaps not, " said Rupert, putting on his coat. "One
never knowsl Don't forget thãt we are going to see criminals.'
"Do you think they are
criminals?" asked Basil in his sleepy voice.
Rupert laughed loudly. "Can you
doubt, my dear brother, that the letter is an order to attack and kill the
Major? Look at the letter. '
'l am looking at the letter,"
said Basil calmly. "And I don't think it is the sort of letter2 one
criminal would write to another.
"Well," cried Rupen, turning
round, with laughter in his bright blue eyes. "Your methods surprise me.
Why,3 this letter does give orders4 for a crime. Well, I'm going, anyhow. Can I
have your

"Certainly," said Basil getting up. "But I'm
going with you.'
And the three men went out into the
quiet night. It was a funny looking group: the short figure ofthe Major was
marching behind the flying coat of young Rupert Grant, Basil Grant was slowly
walking behind the Major with his face turned to the stars.
Rupert paused at the corner of Tanner's Court.
          "Shall
we go in now?" he asked.
"Not get the police?" said
Major Brown, glancing up and down the street.
One never knows. — TpyAH0 CKa3aTb 3apaHee.
2
I don't think it
is the sort of letter — MHe KaxeTcq, 3TO He Tak'oe nucbMO
3
why —
Meycò0Memue, gwpayca»ougee yòuwaeHue
4
this letter does
give orders — B 3TOM ITVfCbMe neiiCTBHTeJ1bHO eCTb pacnopqxeHMe
(ecn0Moeame,1bHb1ù aqaeo,2 does ynompeõqeH 3ðecb ycuqeHuq
3HaqeHua azaeona give)
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'I wouldn't get the police, "1 said
Basil in a queer voice.
Rupert turned with impatience.
"the must open
the door quickly," he said, "and rush in. If the criminals try to
escape, I shall use my revolver. Basil, have your stick ready. Now — one, two,
three, four!"
With these words he threw the door open,
and the three men rushed into the room and stopped dead.2
They were in an ordinary and well
furnished office. Behind a large desk a small man with a black moustache was
writing something. He looked at the three men and asked very politely:
"Did you knock? I am sorry, I did not hear. What can I do for
There was a pause, and then the Major
stepped forward. The letter was in his hand.
'Is your name P. G. Northover?" he
asked.
"Yes, that's my name, " replied the man,
smiling.
"I think," said Major Brown,
"that this letter was written by you. " And he threw the letter on
the desk. The man called Northover looked at it with interest and nodded.
"Well, sir," said the Major, breathing hard,
"what about

"What about it?" repeated the man.
"I'm Major Brown.' Northover bowed.
"Pleased to meet you 4 sir. What have you got to say to me?"
 "Say!" cried the Major
impatiently. "I want to settle this affair.5 1 want —
"Certainly, sir, " said
Northover, jumping up. "Will you take a chair for a moment?"
He pressed an electric bell, and the next
moment a young man entered the room.

   I I
wouldn't get the police. — q 6b1 He      3BaTb IIOJIHUHK).
2
stopped dead —
3aMepJIH Ha MecTe
3
what about that?
— HY, M wro Bbl cKaxerre no 3TOMY T10B0AY?
4   pleased to meet you — pau
r103HaKOMHTbC51 c (oõu«npuwzmaq npu 3HaK0Mcmge)
5
| want to settle
this affair. — 3ð. xoqy 3H'dTb, B qeM neyro.
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"Mr.
Hopson," said Northover, "this is Major Brown. Will you please finish
that thing for him which I gave you this morning, and bring it in%"
"Yes, sir, " said Mr. Hopson and disappeared at
once.
"You will excuse me, gentlemen,
" said Mr. Northover with a bright smile, "if I continue to work
until Mr. Hopson is ready. I have some work that must be finished before I
get away on my holiday tomorrow. And we all like the open air of the country,
don't we? I Ha! Ha!"
The criminal took up his pen with a happy
laugh. A few minutes passed. Mr. Northover wrote busily while the three
gentlemen looked at him in grim silence.
At last Mr. Hopson appeared again, put a
paper before Mr. Northover and disappeared again. Mr. Northover ran his eye up
and down the paper2 and then handed it to Major Brown.
"I hope you will find it all right,
Major," he said politely. The Major looked at the paper and saw that it
was a bill addressed to him. It ran as follows:
Major Brown to P. G. Northover:3
L.s.d.4
Planting and arrangement5 of 200 pansies in garden.2.o.o
Barrow with flowers ..0.15.0

Hire of man with barrow .................................0.05.o
Hire of house and garden for one day .. I.O.O
Furniture for house  ...4.0.0. Salary of Miss Jameson    .1.0.0.
Salary of gardener
— . .l.o.o. Total 10.0.O.
we all like the open air of the country, don't we? — MH Bellb BCe
.11K)6MM 6b1BaTb Ha CBexeM B03Ayxe, He npaBAa JIM? (pacwžeuemtblù
gonpoc, qacmo ynompeõnmotquùcg e pauoeopH0ù pequ)
2 ran his eye up and down the paper —
np06exaJ1 rna3aMM 6YMary
3 Major Brown to P. G. Northover —
AOJ1r Mahopa bpayHa [I. r. HopT0YBepy
4
L.s.d. — (Slam.)      CRPJIMHTOB,
UIWIJIMHFH, neHcb1
5 planting and arrangement — nocaAKa B
onpegeneHH0M nopHAKe
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"What?" cried Brown after a dead pause. His eyes
seemed
slowly rising out of his head. I "What in heaven's name
is this?"
"What is it?" repeated
Northoverwith his friendly smile. " It's your bill, of course. "
"My bill?" cried the Major. "My bill?
And what do I have to d02 with that bill"'
 "WI," said Northover laughing,
"I think you will have to pay it. "
The Major's hand was still resting
on the back ofthe chair. He lifted the chair into the air with one hand and
threw it at Northover's head. Northover jumped up and got a blow on his elbow.
"Let me go!" he cried. "A
client has a full right to protest against overcharges, but not to throw
furniture!"
"What, in God's name, do you
mean by your 'clients' and 'overcharges'? " cried Major Brown almost
hysterically. "Who are you? I've never seen you, or your foolish bills. I
only know that you ordered one of your criminals to kill me. "
"Mad," said Northover looking round, "all
of them mad.'
 "Your crimes are discovered, "
said Rupert. "I 'm only a private detective, but a policeman is coming
here and —" " Mad," repeated Northover.
At this moment the sleepy voice of Basil was heard suddenly.
"Major Brown, " he said.
"Can you tell me what was the name of the gentleman who lived in your
house before you?"
The Major thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I think,
I know. A man named Gurney-Brown. Yes, that was his name. "
"And when did you take the
house?3" asked Basil. And for the first time his eyes lost their
dreaminess.
"I came in last month," said the Major.
At these words 'the criminal' Northover
suddenly fell into his chair and shouted with laughter. 4
"Oh! it's too funny, " he cried, "too
funny!"
seemed slowly rising out of his head.
— Fna3a ero, Ka3UIOCb, MeaneHH0 BblJ1e3aJIH H3 op6MT.
2
what do I have to
do with — KaKoe OTHOLneHHe q HMe}O
3
to take a house —
CHHTb, apeHAOBaTb
4
shouted with
laughter — pa3pa3HJ1cq IPOMKHM XOXOTOM
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Basil Grant was shaking with noiseless laughter.
"Look here, Basil," cried Rupert
angrily. "If you don't want me to go mad, I tell me what all this
means?"
Northover rose.
"Let me explain, sir," he
said. "First of all I must apologise to you, Major Brown, for a most
unfortunate mistake, which has caused all this trouble. You have behaved with
astonishing courage and dignity. Of course you need not trouble2 about the
bill. " He tore the bill into small pieces and threw them into the
waste-paper basket.
" But I don't even begin to understand!"
exclaimed the Major.
"What bill? What mistake?"
" Do you know where you are, Major?" asked
Northover.
"God knows I don't," replied the Major nervously.
"You are in the office of the
Adventure and Romance Agency, ' said Northover.
"And what's that?" asked the Major.
Nofihover looked at him thoughtfully.
"Major, " he said, "did
you ever feel on some dull afternoon the hunger for something unusual?4 Did you
ever want something unusual to happen to you? Something that would take you
away from the monotony of life, away from its dull routine? Did you ever feel
that?" "Certainly not, " said the Major shortly.
"You see," said Northover,
"the Adventure and Romance Agency has been started to meet a great modern
desire. In conversation and in literature we hear of the desire for the
unusual, for adventure. Now the. person who feels this desire for adventure
pays a cenain sum to the Agency. In return,5 the Agency surrounds him with the
most surprising events. As soon as the man leaves his front door, unusual
things begin to happen to him. Of course a very inter-
esting scenario is first written for him by one of the talented
writers

I if you don't want me to go mad — ecJIH Tbi He
xoqe1Mb, qT06b1 COI_neJ1 c YMa (06æŒcmHb1ù
uHØuHumu6Hb1Ü oõopom)
2
you need not
trouble — Bax.f He3a¼eM 6eC110KOMTbCfl
3
the Adventure and
Romance Agency — AreHTCTBO npnwuoqeHMùi H
POMaHTHKH
4
the hunger for
something unusual — TOCKa no He06b1MHOMY
5
in return —
B3aMeH
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english.ru who work for the Agency. Your scenario, Major
Brown, was extremely interesting and dramatic. It is a pityl you did not see
the end of it.
"Mr. Gurney-Brown who formerly
lived in your house, was our client, " Northoverwent on. "And my
foolish clerks decided that Major Brown and Mr. Gurney-Brown were the same
person. That's how you found yourself in the middle of another man's story.
" "How on earth does the thing work?" asked Rupert.

"We believe that we are doing noble
work," continued Northover. "We give people the chance to be heroes;
we make them fight strangers, run down long streets from pursuers, climb walls
and jump off into mysterious places — all healthy and pleasant exercises, too.2
give them back their childhood, that happy time when they can act stories and
be heroes."
Major Brown received the explanation with
good humour. "No doubt at all,"3 he said, "the scheme is
excellent. But I shall never be your client. Somehow, when one's seen the thing
itself, you know — blood and men screaming.. 4 | don't want false excitements.
I want a little house and a quiet life."
Northover bowed. Then after a pause he said:

"Gentlemen, may I offer you my card?
If any of you desire at any time to communicate with me..."
'I should be obliged for your card,
sir," said the Major. "I'd like to pay for the chair. '
The agent for Romance and Adventure handed his card, laughing.
"And can I know the end of it
all?" asked the Major. "What did it all mean: 'jackals', and 'death
to Major Brown'? "
"I'm terribly sorry;"
Northover said, "but what you ask is impossible. The scenarios are
confidential. I do hope5 that you will understand that I have no right to tell
you a word more."

1    it is a pity — YvaJ1b
2
all healthy and
pleasant exercises, too — BCe 3T0 K TOMY xe npHflTHb1e
M none3HbIe
ynpaxHeHH9
3 no doubt at all — BHe BCHKoro COMHeHMfl
4

npuqacmHblù
oõopom)
5 | do hope — H Ha.aekOCb (gcnomoeamU1bHb1ù
uaeon do ynompeõaeH 3ðecb
()JIH ycunehtuq 3HaqeHun c,aoea hope)
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"There is no one who
understands discipline better than I do, " said the Major. "Thank you
very much. Good night." And the three men left the office.
Major Brown married Miss Jameson, the
lady with red hair and the green dress. She was an actress and worked for the
Agency. Her friends who knew her as a poetic creature, were surprised at her
marriage with that prosaic old soldier.
She always œplied very calmly that
she had met many men, who acted very bravely in the dramas prepared for them by
Northover's writers. But she had met only one man who went down into a coal
cellar, when he really thought there was a murderer there.
They are living a happy life, and the
disciplined veteran never asks his wife about the end of that story, and why he
was never allowedl to mention jackals.
Exercises
Comprehension Check
1.
Say who in the
story:
I) had never liked to be a military man.
2)
was standing on the garden wall.
3)
stared at Major Brown with his wide-open mouth and looked like
some large fish.
4)
had red hair and was dressed in a green dress.
5)
was in time to see something, which at first glance froze his
blood.
6)
wanted only to escape.
7)
was fond of poetry and art and who liked his detective work.
I and why he
was never allowed — H noqeMY eMY' HHKorna He popeu_raJIH

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8) had written the letter, which Mr.
Brown found in the pocket of the coat.
9) didn 't believe that the letter had been written by criminals.
10) was sitting behind the desk in the
well-furnished office, writing something.
1 1) ran his eye up and down the
paper and then handed it to Major Brown.
12)
apologised to Major Brown for the most unfortunate mistake.
13)
received the explanation with good humour.
14)
married Miss Jameson.
15)
had met only one man who went down into the coal cellar, when he
really thought there was a murderer there.
2.
Say who in the
story said it and in connection with what.
l) "If you're interested in such
flowers, you just get onto that wall'.
2)
"For Heaven's sake don't mention jackals."
3)
"Every afternoon till six o'clock I must keep my face to the
street. "
4)
"Major Brown, Major Brown, how did the jackal die?"
5)
"Where is your coal cellar?"
6)
"I must go
and see Rupert Grant at once."
7)
"The lady was in the conspiracy, of course. "
8)
"And I don't think it is the sort of letter one criminal
would write to another. '
9)
"Mr. Hopson, this is Major Brown. Will you please finish
that thing for him which I gave you in this morning, and bring it in?"
10)      "It's
your bill, ofcourse."
11)      "Mad, all of them mad."
12)      "Yes, I think, I know. A man
named Gurney-Brown. Yes, that was his name. "
13)      "You
are in the office of the Adventure and Romance Agency. "
14)      "No
doubt at all, the scheme is excellent. But I shall never be your client. "
15)      "The scenarios are
confidential."
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03HaK0M1-rreAbHa¶

16)      "There
is no one who understands discipline better than
I do.
3.
Complete the
following sentences occurring in the story.
l) He had never liked to be a military man, so
2)
But it was not only the beauty of the flowers that surprised
him. It was something else:
3)
The only person the Major saw in that room was

4)
A second later Brown was in the street again, and he was in time
— in time to
 5) He pushed the door
of the coal cellar and stepped in, feeling in his pockets for matches. As his
right hand was occupied
6)
But the Major was holding him by the coat collar and was not
going to let him out of the cellar. Suddenly

7)
When the Major finished the story of his mysterious ad      ventures,
he noticed that
8)
'You see, the Adventure and Romance Agency has been
started
9)
Major Brown married Miss Jameson,
10) They are living a happy life, and the
disciplined veteran

4.
Answer the
following questions.
l ) Did Mr. 'Brown like being a military man?
2) How did he decide to spend the
rest of his life? 3) What were his favourite flowers?
4)
What did the man with the barrow propose him to do?
5)
What did Mr. Brown see in the very centre of the garden?
6)
But for the pansies, what else surprised Major Brown that much?
7) Who did Major Brown
see in the richty furnished room? Describe the lady in detail.
8) WIIat strange things happened to
Major Brown behind the wall?
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1.

2.
3.
4. 9) Why did Major Brown's blood freeze in his veins when
he saw his favourite pansies in the garden?
10)    Why did
Mr. Brown go to see Rupert Grant? What did Rupert Grant do?
11)    How did
Rupert Grant and his brother react to the same story?
12)
What did the
letter Mr. Brown had found in the coat deal with?
13)    Who was
the letter written by?
14)
What did Mr. Northover give to Mr. Brown, which surprised him
very much?
15)    Was what
happened to Major Brown a crime or was it an unfortunate mistake?
16)    What
agency did Mr. Brown work for?
17)    Why did
this incident happen to Major Brown? What caused all this confusion?
Working with the Vocabulary
Major
Brown's favourite flowers were pansies. Name at least ten more flowers.
Check the
pronunciation of the following words with the dictionary.
Moustache, major, inscription, to descend, conspiracy, to
occur, hysterically, to apologise, routine, scenario, confidential to bow, to
whisper, prosaic, murderer, disciplined, pursuer, melancholy.
Make up a
list ofwords and phrases that can be used while speaking on the topic
"Gardening". Make up your own story round these words.
Say it in
one word, basing your answers on the vocabulary of this story.
1)
If a person stops working because of his advanced age, he

2)
If a man cultivates hair under his nose, he has a
m
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3) If there's no noise in the street, this
  street is q— .

8) the Agency
  surrounds him with the most sur-

4) If you go down the stairs, you d— them.

       prising events.

5) If anything happens later than it was
  planned to take

9) A second later Brown was in the street again, and he

place, you can speak of a d— .

was to see something, which at sight
  froze his

6)
  If you prepare for something, you make a— .
7)
  A person, who cómmits a crime, is called a c

blood.

8) If you are asked to pay more than you
  are supposed, you

7.

franslate
  the sentences into English, choosing from the prepositional

can protest against these o

phrases listed below.

9) Something, happening from day to day, with very little changes, is
  called a r

To help up; to look up; to jump up; to get up; to run
  one's eye

10) If you give something to a person, you
  I— it.

up and down; to come up.

11) If anything is kept secret, this
  information is c

1) Bapyr CTapHK, flOJIHBaBUIHM
  UBeTb1, nom-WI r0110BY H

12) If a person follows you everywhere, he
  can be called your

         Mañopa bpayHa.
2) «K0HeqH0, — cKa3œ1 Bei3HJ1, BCTaBaq, — 51                    C
  Ba-

5.

Add negative prefixes im-, in-, un- to the following words. Find sen-

3) «q 110Mory BaM HOAHHTbCH Ha
  cTeHy», — cKa3aJ1 cra-

tences with these »ords in the story and translate them into Russian.

PHK.

031--1aK0MwreAbHa¶
          Fortunate
—                     visible —                     patiently — 4) OH
noaou_re.'l K CTaPHKY H 3ar0BopHJ1 C HMM.
possible — usual — , pa- 5) C meCTb1M
yaapoM qac0B aaMa BCKOYHJ1a H noBepHYtience nacb K MaMopy bpayHY.
6) MH(2Tep
HopT0Bep rrp06exan rna3aMH JIHCTOK cBepxy
6.     Study
the following prepositional phrases. Complete the sentences,       BHU3, r10T0M
nepenanero Mahopy bpayHY.

aner the list, with the plæpositional phrase (or its element)
  that fits.

To devote to; to be interested in; to cry
  for one's blood; to be

8.

Make your choice to fill in the gaps in the following sentences.

 at one's service; to be in time to
  do; in despair; to be in con-

I) The Majorinto a richly furnished room.

spiracy; to protest against; to apologise
  to; in return.

a)   stepped
b)   steped

l) He looked about him almost

2) At the sixth the lady jumped up and turned to

2) "Why were these little flowers
  crying

the Major.

3) "Let me explain' sir," he said. "First of all I must

a) strike

b) stroke
4)
"The lady was     said Rupert.    c) struck
5)
"The client has a full right overcharges. " 3) The man
tried to but Brown was on top of him

6) "Ifyou'rein such
  flowers, you just get onto that

like a cat.

wall."

a) rise

7)        I'm  said the Major
  and jumped down on

b) raise

       the
  grass beside the man.

c) arouse

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4)
"Well, sir,
" said the Major, breathing
a)    hardly
b)   hard
5)
"Look here, Basil," cried Rupert angrily, "if you
don't want me  ( l) go
mad, tell me  (2) all
this means.'

                   (l)
a) to                           (2) a) that
b)
b) what
c)
about
9.
Fill in the gaps,
choosing from as, like, as soon as, not so as.
l)
And who would pour out moneywater just for a practical joke
against him?
2)
The old man stared at him. With his wide-open mouth he lookedsome large fish.
3)
The man tried to riSe but Brown was on top of him a cat.
4)
The Major laid the letter on the table. It ran follows.
5)
soonthe man leaves
his front door, unusual things begin to happen to him. "
6)
Her friends who
knew hera poetic creature were surprised at
her marriage with the prosaic old soldier.
7)
Rupert liked his detective work and was sure that some day he
would become famous Sherlock Holmes.
10.
Choose from the
prepositions back, up, at, around to use after the verb to look in the
following sentences.

l)
) Brown looked      the road behind him.
2)
Then he looked again at the flower-bed with that
terrible inscription.
3)
Suddenly the old man who was watering the pansies lookedand saw the
Major.
4)
Rupert raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked him for a moment
but said nothing. 5) "Is there an address?" asked Rupert.
IOO
"No — oh, yes!" replied Rupert, looking  the paper.
6) "Mad,'' said Northover,
looking "all of
them mad. "
Say it in your own words, paying attention to the italicised parts of the
sentences.
l) He
devoted the æst ofhis life to growing his favourite flowers.
2)
Why were these little flowers cryingfor his death?
3)
"I am at your service," said the Major and jumped down
on the grass beside the man.
4)
The cries appeared to come from the head resting on the pavement.
5)
As his right hand was occupied, a pair of gigantic hands came out
of the darkness and seized him by the back of his head.
6)
"The lady was in the conspiracy, of course," said
Rupert.
7)
'I am sorry to hear that some delay had
occurred in the arrangements relating to Mr. Brown.'
8)
In a second Brown was in the street again, and was in  time—
in time to see something, which at first glance froze his blood.
9)
With these words he threw the door open, and the three men rushed
into the room and stopped dead.
10)      "Major,"
he said, "did you feel on some dull afternoon the hunger for something
unusual?"
I l) "You see," said Northover, "the
Adventure and Romance Agency has been started to meet a great modern desire.
12)    In
conversation and in literature we hear of the desire for the unusual, for
adventure.
13)
Major Brown
received the explanation with good humour.
Discussion
l. What do you think, are such
agencies like the one mentioned in the story, useful for those who look for
adventures?

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2.
Why do you think such agencies have a lot of clients, as
the story goes?
3.
Give a sketch-portrait of Major Brown. Speak on his looks and
character.
4.
How would you have behaved and what would you have thought if you
had found yourself in Major Brown's place?
5.
Can you think of any funny situations caused by some unfortunate
mistakes?
6.
Finally, did this incident turn out for the Major an unfortunate
mistake or a lucky chance? Why?
7.
Which of the two Grant brothers was more of a detective? Give
your reasoning.
8.
What kind of letter would have Miss Jameson written,  describing
this strange incident to her friend?
9.
Which ofthe characters ofthis story appeals to you more?
10.

Can you think of the end of the scenario, which wasn't told to Major Brown?
What, in your opinion, do the words "jackals" and " Death to
Major Brown" mean?
11.
Act out the conversation between Major Brown and Mrs.
       Brown remembering this incident after their marriage.      A
STRING OF BEADS
"What luck that I'm placed next
to you,l" said Laura, as we sat down to dinner.
"For me," I replied politely.
"That remains to be seen,
"2 she said. "I wanted so much to have the chance of talking to you.
I've got a story to tell you." At this my heart sank3 a little.
I prefer to
hear you talk about yourself," I answered. "Or even about me.
"Oh, but
I must tell you the story. I think you'll be able to use it."
"If you must, you must. But let's look at the menu
first."
I'm placed next to you — MeHq
nocauø-nn pqA0M c BaMH 2 That remains to be seen. — 3T0 elue Hauo
110CMOTpeTb.
3 my
heart sank — y Mel-IH eKHyno cepaue
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"Don't you want me to tell
it?" I she said, a little angrily. "l thought you would be pleased.
"

"I am. I am pleased."
"It happened to some friends of mine. It's perfectly
true. '
"That's not a
recommendation," I said. "A true story is never so true as an
invented one."
"What does that mean?" she
asked.
"Nothing very much, "2 | replied. "But it
sounds good."
"I wish you would let me go on3 with my story. "
"I'm all attention," I said. "I'm not going to
eat the soup. It's fattening. "
She glanced at the menu.
        "Oh, well," she said,
"if you aren't going to eat it, I think I mustn't eat it either. And yet,
bortsch is the only soup I really like."
"Never mind 4 Tell me your story
and we'll forget about food till the fish comes. '
              "Well,
I was there when it happened. I was dining with the
Livingstones.5 Do you know the Livingstones?"
"No,
I don't think I do.'
"WI, you can ask them and they will
confirm every word I say. They had asked their governess to come in to dinner
because at the last moment some woman had informed them she could not come —
and they would have been thirteen at table. Their governess was a Miss
Robinson,6 quite a nice girl, young, you know, twenty or twenty one, and rather
pretty. Personally, I would never take a governess who is young and pretty. One
never knows7 what may happen.
"But one hopes
for the best," I remarked. Laura paid no attention to my remark.

I Don't you want me to tell it? — Heyxœ1M BaM He xowrcq,
q•r06b1 q paccKa3aqa ee'?
2
Nothing very
much. — Hnqero oc06eHHoro.
3
| wish you would
let me go on — 6b' ogeHb xo-rena, HT06b1 Bbl 1103B0-
JIHJIH we np0A0J1xaTb
4
Never mind. —
gà. Hy, 60r c HMM.
with the Livingstones — y JIHBHHI"CTOHOB
6 a Miss Robinson — HeKaH MHCC
P06HHCOH one never knows — 3apaHee HMKOraa Bent, He 3HaeLMb
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"But Miss Robinson had excellent
references, and I must admit that she was a very nice, respectable person,
" Laura went on with her story.
"There was a man at dinner whom I
don't suppose you know, but who is a celebrity in his way. I He's a Count
Borcelli and he knows more about precious stones than anyone in
the world. He was sitting next to Mary Lyngate who likes to boast about her
pearls. In the course of conversation she asked him what he thought of the
string of pearls that she was wearing. He said it was pretty.
"'Pretty?' she said. 'Only pretty?'
And she told him it was valued at eight thousand pounds.
'"Yes, it's worth that,' he said.
"Miss Robinson was sitting opposite to him. She looked
rather
nice that evening. Ofcourse I recognised her dress. It was one of Sophie
Livingstone's old dresses, but ifyou had not known that Miss Robinson was only
the governess, you would never have suspected it.
"'That's a very beautiful necklace
that young lady has on,' said Borcelli.
'"Oh, but that's Mrs. Livingstone's governess, ' said Mary Lin-
gate.
"'I can't help that, '2 he said. 'She's wearing one of
the finest strings of pearls that I've ever seen in my life. It must be worth
fifty thousand pounds. '
'"Nonsense.'

"'I give you my word it is.
" Mary Lyngate who has rather a
loud voice said to Miss Robinson across the table:
" 'Miss Robinson, do you know
what Count Borcelli says? He says that string of pearls you're wearing is worth
fifty thousand pounds. '
"Just at that moment there was a
pause in the conversation so that everybody heard. We all turned and looked at
Miss Robinson. She flushed a little and laughed.
'"Well, I made a very good bargain,
'3 she said, 'because I paid fifteen shillings for it.'
" 'You certainly did,' he said.
a celebrity in his way — B CBOeM pone
3HaMeHHTOCTb 2 | can't help that. — 3ð. H BCe xe 3TO TaK.
3 | made a very good bargain — H cne.qana oqeHb
YAaHHYK) noKY11KY
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"thé all laughed. It was, of
course, absurd. We've all heard stories ofwives showing their husbands as false
a string of pearls that was real and expensive. Those stories are as old as the
hills. I
"But nobody could believe that a
governess would remain a governess ifshe owned a string ofpearls worth fifty
thousand pounds. It was clear to us that the Count had made a mistake. Then an
extraordinary thing happened.
"At that very moment the butler
bent over Miss Robinson and whispered something in her ear. I thought she
turned a little pale.
She certainly looked frightened.
'"Mrs. Livingstone,' she said,
'Dawson says there are two men in the hall who want to speak to me at once. '
'"WI, you'd better go,' said Sophie Livingstone.
"Miss Robinson got up and left the
room. Ofcourse the same thought flashed through all our minds 2 but I said it
first.
'"l hope they haven't come to
arrest her,' I said to Sophie. 'It would be too dreadful for you, my dear. '
'"Are you sure it was a real necklace, Borcelli?'
Sophie asked.
"'Oh, quite.
'"She could hardly have had the
nerve3 to wear it tonight if it were stolen,' I said.
" Sophie Livingstone turned as pale
as death and I saw she was wondering if evewthing was all right in her jewel
case. I only had on a little chain of diamonds but instinctively I put my hand
up to my neck to feel if it was still there.
Don't talk nonsense, ' said Mr.
Livingstone. 'How on earth4 would Miss Robinson have had the chance of stealing
a valuable string of pearls?'
'"She may be a receiver ofstolen things,' I said.
'"Oh, but she had such wonderful references,' said
Sophie.
"'They always do,' I said.'

I as old as the hills — noroBopKa, COOTBeTCTBYIOL1_1aq pyccK0M «cTapo KaK
MHP».
2
the same thought
flashed through all our minds — Hac Bcex OCeHHJ1a OAHa Ta xe MbICJ1b
3
she could hardly
hme had the nerve — Bpqn 6b1 y Hee XBaTWIO cMe.nocrM
4
on earth —
3Ò. qepT B03bMH (ewpa*eHue ynompeãaqemcg OÕb1¼HO
YCUÆHUR)
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I simply had to interrupt Laura.
''Why did you not want to take a brighter
view of the case?" I "Of course I knew nothing against Miss Robinson
and I had every reason to think her a very nice girl, but it would have been
thrilling to find out that she was a well-known thief and a member of a
gang Of international crooks. "
"Just like a film, " I said.
"I'm afraid that it's only in films that exciting things like that happen.
"
"WI," Laura
went on. waited breathlessly. There was not a sound. I expected to hear a
scuffle in the hall or at least a scream. I thoughtthe silence was terrible.
Then the door opened and Miss Robinson walked in. I noticed at once that the
necklace was gone.2 1 could see that she was pale and excited. She came back to
the table, sat down and with a smile threw on it...'
"On what?"
"On the table, you fool," said
Laura impatiently. "She threw a string of pearls on the table. "
"'That is my necklace,' she said.
"Count Borcelli leant forward.
"'Oh, but those pearls are false,' he said.
"'l told you they were, ' laughed Miss Robinson.
"'That's not the same string you had
on a few moments ago,' he said.
"She shook her
head and smiled mysteriously. We were all intrigued. I don't think that Sophie
Livingstone was so very pleased that her governess was making herself the
centre of interest like that. There was something unpleasant in her manner when
she said that Miss Robinson had better explain everything.
"théll, Miss Robinson said
that when she went into the hall she found two men who said they had come from
Jarrot?s Stores.3 She had bought her string there, as she said, for fifteen
shillings. She had to take it back to the store because the clasp was loose4
and had only got it that afternoon. The men said they had given her the
did you not
want to take a brighter view of the case? — IloqeMY xe Bbl He XOTeJIVt
B3TTIHHYTb 60JIee OTITHMHCTVIYHO Ha 3TOT cnyqaü?
2
the necklace was
gone — oxepeJ1be HCqe3JIO
3
Jarrot's Stores
['d3ærats 'sto:z] — 'OBeJIMPHbIii Mara3MH AxappoTa
4
the clasp was
loose — 3aMoqeK nnoxo 3mueJIKHBaJICH
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wrong.string. Someone had left the string of real pearls at
the jeweller's to be restrung, I and the assistant had made a mistake. Ofcourse
I
can't understand how anyone could be so stupid as to take a really valuable
string to Jarrot's. The shop assistants there aren't used to dealing with2
expensive jewels. They can't tell real pearls from false.
But you know what fools some women are.
"WI, that is the reason why Miss
Robinson was wearing that string ofreal pearls. Ofcourse she gave it back to
them — she couldn't do anything else I suppose — and they returned her own
string to her. Then they said that although they were under no obligation to
her,3 they were instructed to give her a cheque of three hundred pounds as a
compensation. Miss Robinson actually showed the cheque to us.
She was as pleased as Punch.
4"  it was a piece of luck, wasn't it?"
"No," said Laura, "as it turned out it was
the ruin of her. "
"Oh, how was that9"
"WI, when it was time for her to go
on her holiday she told Sophie Livingstone that she'd made up her mind to go to
Deauville for a month and spend the whole three hundred pounds there. Of course
Sophie begged her to change her mind and put the money in the savings bank, but
she didn 't want to hear ofit. She said she had never had such a chance before,
and would never have it again and she made up her mind for at least four weeks
to live like a duchess. So Sophie sold Miss Robinson a lot ofclothes that she
didn 't want any more. She had been wearing them long enough and was sick to
death ofthem.5 She says she just gave them to Miss Robinson, but I don't
believe her. So MISS Robinson left for Deauville. What do you think happened
then?"
'I haven't got a
notion, "6 | replied. "l hope she had the time of her life there. 7

I to be restrung — YT06b1 HX
nepeHH3aJIH
2 the shop
assistants there aren't used to dealing with — npoaaB11bI B 3TOM
Mara3HHe He nPHBb1KJIH HMeTb                 C
3 although they were under no obligation to her — XOTH OHM H He 6bIJIH
06H3aHb1 geJ1aTb 3Toro
4
as pleased as
Punch — noroBopKa, pyccK0MY «pana-paAemeHbKa»
5
she... was sick
to death of them — OHU AO CMCPTH Ha.aoem,f 6 | haven't got a notion. — He HMeK)
HH MUIeñLL1ero flOHHTM9.
7 she had
the time of her life there — OHa TaM npeKpacH0 np0Bena BpeMH
english.ru
"WI, a
week before she was to come back she wrote to Sophie and said that she had
changed her plans and had entered another profession, and hoped Mrs.
Livingstone would forgive her if she didn't return. Of course poor Sophie was
furious.
"What had actually happened was
that Miss Robinson had met a rich Argentine in Deauville and had gone offto
Paris with him. And she has been in Paris since that time. I've seen her
myselfthere, with bracelets right up to her elbow and several strings of pearls
round her neck. Of course I cut her dead. I They say she has a house in the
Bois de Boulogne2 and I know she has a Rolls.3"
"When you say she was ruined you
use the word in a technical sense, I think, " I said.

"l don't know what you mean by
this, " said Laura. "But don't you think you could make a story' out
of it?"

"Unfortunately, I've already written
a story about a necklace. One can't go on writing stories about pearl
necklaces. '
'I would like to write it myself, "
said Laura. "Only of course
I should change the end. "
"Oh, how would you end it?"
"Well, in my story Miss Robinson
would be engaged to a bank clerk who was badly wounded during the war, with
only one leg, or half face shot away. And they would be terribly poor and there
would be no prospect of their marriage for years, and he would be putting all
his savings into buying a little house in the suburbs. And then she gives him
the three hundred pounds to pay the last instalment for the house. And he cries
on her shoulder like a child. And they get the little house in the suburbs and
they marry, and they take his old mother to live with them, and he goes to his
bank every day, and he's
often ill — with his wound4 and she nurses him, and it's all
very pathetic and sweet and lovely. "

It sounds rather dull to me, " I remarked.
"Yes, but moral," said Laura.

I I cut her dead — H cnenaqa BHA,       He
Y3HaK) ee
2
Bois de Boulogne
— (Øp.) bYJIOHCKHV1 nec
3
a Rolls —
(cow-pat".) aBTOM06HAb MaPKM «Pomc-Poüc»
4
he's often ill —
with his wound — pawa qacT0 6ecrIOKOHT ero
109
                                      Exercises
Comprehension Check
1.
Say who in this
story:
I) wanted to tell a story to the writer.
2)
could confirm every Laura's word.
3)
knew about this
story more than anyone in the world.
4)
was wearing one of the finest strings of pearls.
5)
could not believe that a governess would remain a governess if
she owned a string of pearls worth fifty thousand pounds.
6)
turned pale and looked a little frightened.
7)
threw a string of pearls on the table.
8)
was not pleased that the governess was making herself the centre
of interest.
9)
received a cheque of three hundred pounds as a compensation.
10)     had
made a mistake at the jeweler's.

I I) had made up her mind to go to Deauville for a month

and spend the whole three hundred pounds there.
12)    had met a
rich Argentine in Deauville and had gone off to Paris with him.
13)    who would
have liked to write the story herself.
2.
Say who in the
story said it and in connection with what.
l) "Oh, but I must tell you the story. I think you'll
be able to

use it. "
2)
"l am not going to eat soup. It's fattening. "
3)
" Personally,
I would never take a governess who is young and pretty. "
4)
"She's wearing one of the finest strings of pearls that I've
ever seen in my life. "
5)
"Well, I made a good bargain, because I paid fifteen
shillings for it. '
6)
"I hope they haven't come to arrest her. It would be too
dreadful for you, dear. "
110

7)"Don't talk
nonsense. How on earth would Miss Robin-

son have had the chance of stealing a
valuable thing?"
8)
 "Of course I knew nothing against
Miss Robinson and I had every reason to think her a very nice
girl, but it would have been thrilling to find out that she was a well-known
thief and a member of a gang of international crooks.
9)
"Oh, but those pearls are false. "
10)     "Of
course, I can't understand how anyone can be so  stupid as to take a
really valuable thing to Jarrot's. "
Il) "She was as pleased as Punch."
12)
"Unfortunately, I've already written a story about a necklace."

13)
"It sounds rather dull to me."
"Yes, but moral. "
3.
Ans»er the
following questions.
l) Why did the writer's heart sink when
Laura said that she wanted to tell him a story?
2)
What was the only soup that Laura liked? Why did the writer
refuse the soup?
3)
Why did the
Livingstones invite their governess to dinner?
4)
What could Count Borcelli do? Why was he so special?
5)
attracted the Count in Mis Robinson, the
governes?
6)
Why did the governess flush when she heard that the string of
pearls she was wearing was worth fifty thousand pounds?
7)
What sort ofstories did the writer call "as old as the
hills"?
8)
What extraordinary thing happened then?

9)Why did everybody at table start speaking about Miss  Robinson's
arrest?
10) What did Miss Robinson throw on the
table after she returned?
What mistake had the assistant at Jarrot's
made?
12)
With her own string of pearls Laura received from the jeweler's a
cheque for three hundred pounds as a compensation, didn't she?
13)
Why did this money turn out to be the ruin of her, in Laura 's
opinion?
I l l

14)
  Where did she decide to go on her holiday?
15)    Did she
  return to the Livingstones? Why?
16)
  Who did she meet in Deauville?
17)    What
  end would Laura herself have written to the story?
                Why did the writer find her
  ending "dull
Working with the Vocabulary
I.         Mate the words and phrases in the left-hand
  column with their explanations in the right-hand column.

4)
  "We all laughed. It was of course absurd. '

5)
  Miss Robinson got up and left the room. Of course the same
  thought flushed through all our minds, but I said it  first.
6)
  I simply had to interrupt Laura. " Why did you not want to
  take a brighter view of the case?"
7)
  She shook her
  head and smiled mysteriously. We were all  intrigued.
8)
  "Their shop assistants can 't tell real pearlsfrom false.
  "
9)
  "And they would be terribly poor and there would be no  prospect
  of their marriage for years, and he would be

031--1aK0MwreAbHa¶

putting all his savings into buying a little house in the
sub-

I) one's heart sanknot to be obliged to anybodyurbs. And then she gives him the
three hundred pounds to
2)

I'm all attentionsmb lost hope or was pay the last instalmentfor the house.
" disappointed 10) "I give you my word it is."
3)
it's fatteninga famous, well-known "Well,-l made a very good
bargain," she said, "because I paid 15 shillings for it." person
4)

a celebrityto cost     as old as the 5) to value smth at a priceto
decide; to make a deci- 3. Study hills; as the pale following as death;
comparisons: etc. Find sentences, as pleased containing as Punch; them, in the
ston
story and
translate them into Russian. Make up your own sentences
6)
to be worth      6) to turn red   with them.
7)
to flush    7) not to want smth any more
8)
to have the nerve
to do     8) to have courage to do
9)
to be
under no obliga- 9) I'm listening to you very 4.Choose the right word to fill
in the gaps in the following sentences.

tion to anybodyattentivelyI) "She couldhave had the
nerve to wear it to10) to make up one's mind 10) to givesmth a certain price
night if it were stolen.'

I l) to be sick of smth to           I I) when one puts on weight,       a)
hardly

2.

Say it in your own words, paying attention to the parts italicised.

2)

"On the table, you fool,
a) impatiently

said Laura

I)

One never knows what may happen.  But one
  hopesfor the best, " I remarked.

b)  unpatiently
c)   dispatiently

2)

" He was sitting next to Mary Lyngate, who likes to boast

3)

"Of course she gave it back to them

she
  couldn't do

about her pearls.

                else, I suppose.'

3)

'It was one of Sophie Livingstone's old
  dresses, but if

a) anything

you had not known that Miss
  Robinson was only the gov-

b) nothing

                           deatheating smth                                                    b)
hard
erness, you would
never have suspected it. 'c) something

1 12                                                                                1
13

4)
"Oh, well," she said, "if you aren't going to eat
it, I think I mustn't eat it
a)   also
b)   neither
c)   either
5)
" Miss Robinson, do you know what Count Borcelli says? He
says that the string of pearls you're wearing is worth fiftypounds. "
a)   thousand
b)   thousands
6)
"It sounds
rather  (l) to me, " I remarked.
       "Yes, but                        ' said Laura.
        (1)
a) dull               (2) a) morally
              b) dully                  b) moral
 Discussion
l. Give sketch-portraits of Miss
Livingstone, Miss Robinson, Phe governess, Laura.
2.
What did Laura mean by calling her ending to the story moral
What's the moral of the story?
3.
Should stories be more moral than entertaining, in your opinion?
4.
Give your own ending to the same story. 5. What do you think
would have happened if Miss Robinson hadn't returned the real pearl string?
6.
What would you have done if you had been in Miss Robinson 's
place?
7.
Narrate the whole story in the person of Miss Robinson.
8.
Give comment on the following sentences:

l) "A true story is never so true as an invented
one. '
2) "We've all heard stories of
wives showing to their husbands as false a string of pearls that was real and
expensive. Those stories are as old as the hills. "

BEFORE THE
PARTY
Mrs. Skinner, her husband and their two
daughters were going to a garden party. I Mrs. Skinner liked to be in good
time. She was already dressed in black silk as she was still wearing mourning
for her son-in-law. Standing before her mirror, Mrs. Skinner put her hat on.
The hat was decorated with beautiful feathers which Harold, her son-in-law, had
brought her from Borneo.
"Yes, " she thought, "my poor son-in-law brought them to
me last time he was home on leave.2
She was ready now and she looked out of
the window behind her mirror. Canon Heywood had a beautiful day for his garden
party. It was warm and the sky was blue; the trees had not yet lost the fresh
a garden party — npueM roc•reM, YCTpaHBaeMb1Ïf B
cauy
2 on leave — B 0TnycKe
115
green of the spring. She smiled as she saw her little
granddaughter playing in the garden. "Joan is too pale," thought Mrs.
Skinner, "it was a mistake to have kept her so long in the tropics. And
she is too serious for her age, you never see her run about, she plays her own
quiet games. '
Mrs. Skinner took her gloves and went downstairs.
 Her daughter Kathleen was at the
writing-table busy with some work for the Ladies' Golf Clubl as she was
the honorary secretary of the club. But she too was ready for the party.
'I see you've put on your jumper after all 2" said Mrs. Skinner.
They had discussed at luncheon whether
Kathleen should wear her jumper or her black chiffon blouse. The jumper was
black and white, and Kathleen liked it, but it was not mourning after all.
Millicent, Mrs. Skinner's elder daughter, was in favour of it 3
"There's no reason why we should all look as if we'd
just

come from a funeral," she said. "Harold's been
dead eight months already. "
It did not seem right to Mrs. Skinner to
talk like that. Millicent had been strange since her return from Borneo.
" People don't wear mourning as
long as they did before, " said Millicent. "I'm sure Harold wouldn't
wish me to wear mourning for him indefinitely. "
Mrs. Skinner began to put on her new
gloves. She looked at the wall, over the sofa, where Malay weapons sent by Harold
were hanging. She had liked Harold. She often looked at his photograph which
stood on the piano with photographs of her two daughters, her grandchild, her
sister, and her sister's son.
"Why, 4 Kathleen, where's Harold's photograph?" she asked.
Kathleen looked round. It no longer stood5 in its place.

Someone's taken it away," said Kathleen.
"Perhaps Millicent wanted to have it
in her bedroom, " said Mrs. Skinner.

I the Ladies' Golf Club — K„rry6
M06HTE1bHHU rojlb(þa
2
after all —
31). Bce-TaKH
3
was in
favour of it — BblCKaga-nacb B 110'1b3Y (axeMnepa)
4
why —
3ð. COOTBeTCTByeT MexAOMeTH}O «O!»
5
it no
longer stood — ee ((þ0Torpad)HM) raM yxe He 6bIJIO
116
"1 should have noticed it, "
said Kathleen. " Besides, Millicent has several photographs of Harold. She
keeps them locked up. "
Mrs. Skinner had thought it very strange
that her daughter had no photographs of Harold in her room. She had spoken of
it once, but Millicent had made no reply. Millicent had been strangely silent
since she came back from Borneo. It seemed she did not want any sympathy that
was shown her by Mrs. Skinner. And she did not like to speak of her great loss.
Mr. Skinner had said it was the best thing to leave her alone. The thought of
her husband turned her ideas to the party they were going to.
" Father asked if he ought to wear a
top-hat "l she said. "I said it was better to be on the safe
side?"
The garden-party was going to be a grand
affair. There would be ice-cream, strawberw, vanilla and iced coffee for the
guests. Everyone would be there. They had been asked to meet the Bishop of Hong
Kong, an old friend of the Canon. The Bishop was going to
speak on the Chinese missions. Mrs. Skinner whose daughter had lived in the
East for eight years and whose son-in-law had been Resident3 of a district in
Borneo, was very much interested to hear him speak. The East meant more to her
than to people who had never had anything to do with4 the Colonies.
At that moment Mr. Skinner came into the
room. He was a lawyer, and he went up to London every morning and came down every
evening. He was able to accompany his wife and daughters to the Canon's garden
party only because it was Saturday. Mr. Skinner looked very well in his new
suit although he was very bald, his lips were thin and his face was much lined.
"Is Millicent ready?" asked Mrs. Skinner.
 "There's plenty of time, " said
Kathleen. "thé're asked to come at four and I don't think we ought
to arrive much before half-past. I tolð Davis to bring the car at
four-fifteen. '

I Father
asked if he ought to wear a top-hat. — theu cnpaIIJHBaeT, He
cneayeT JIH eMY waneTb IIHJIHHAP.
2
it was better to
be on the safe side — Ha BCflKHii ca'1yqaV1 He Memaer
3
Resident —
pe3HneHT (orþuuua-,lbHb1Ù npeðcma6umeAb ,uempononuu 6
KCIKO,U-AUÓO paù0He KOAOHuu)
4
who had never had
anything to do with — KOTOPb1e HHKorna He HMe,1H
HMKaKOrO OTH01_ueHHH K
117

 Generally Kathleen
drove the car, but on grand occasions like this Davis, who was their gardener,
put on his uniform and acted as chauffeur.
At last the door opened and Millicent
came in. She wore her widow's weeds. Mrs. Skinner never could get used tol
them, but of course she knew that Millicent must wear them for a year. It was a
pity she didn't look well in them. Millicent was thirty-six. It was very sad to
be a widow at thirty-six. And there wasn't much chance of her marrying again.
Kathleen hadn't much hope either, she was thirty-five. Last time Harold and
Millicent had come home Mrs. Skinner asked them if they could invite Kathleen
to stay with them for some time. Millicent said they could not do it, Mrs.
Skinner did not know why not. Of course she and her husband did not want to get
rid of Kathleen, but a girl ought to marry, and all the men they knew at home
were married already, and Mrs. Skinner thought that staying in Borneo would
give her daughter a chance of getting married. In her opinion Kathleen was
quite pretty. No one could say that about poor Millicent who had a bad colour
and was too fat.
The light fell on the widow's heavy face
as she stopped silently. Kathleen stood with her back to the window. She
watched her sister for a moment.
"Millicent, there's something I want to say to you," she said.
"I was playing golf with Gladys Heywood this morning. "
Gladys Heywood was the Canon's only unmarried daughter.
"She told me something about you
which I think you ought to know. '
Millicent's eyes passed from her sister
to her little daughter watering flowers in the gàrden. Kathleen looked
at her sister calmly.
"The Bishop spent two or three days
in Singapore on his way home," she went on. "He's very fond of
travelling. He has been to Borneo and he knows a good many2 of the people that
you know. '
"He'll be interested to see you,
dear, " said Mrs. Skinner. " Did he know poor Harold?"
"Yes, he
met him at Kuala Solor, " said Kathleen. " He remembers
him very well. He says he was shocked to hear of Harold's death. '
to get used to — HPMBb1KHYTb K qeMy-JIM60
a good many — MHOXeCTBO, MHOrVte
118
     It seemed strange to Mrs. Skinner
that Millicent received her sister's remarks with complete silence.
"Oh, Millicent," she said, "Harold's photo has
disappeared.

Have you taken it?"

"Yes,
I put it away.

Once more Millicent said nothing.
" Millicent, " said Kathleen suddenly, "why
did you tell us that
Harold had died of fever?"
The widow looked at her sister with
steady eyes, but her face flushed. She did not reply.
"What do you mean, Kathleen?"
asked Mr. Skinner, with surprise.
"The Bishop says that Harold committed suicide,"
said Kathleen.
Mrs. Skinner gave a frightened cry.
"Is it true, Millicent?"
"It is.'
"But why didn't you tell us?"
Millicent paused for a moment.
 ' I wanted
Joan to think that her father had died of fever. I did not want her to know he
had committed suicide.'
"You've put us in a difficult
position, " said Kathleen. "It was very hard for me to make Gladys
Heywood believe me that I knew absolutely nothing about it and that we told her
what you had told us. "
"It was my business," said
Millicent. "If I decided to keep this fact to myself I didn't understand
why I couldn't.
'Didn't you know that sooner or later it would come out?" said
Kathleen.
"Poor Harold, " said
Mrs. Skinner, and tears began to gather in her eyes. "It seems dreadful.
He was always a good son-in-law to me. What made him do such a dreadful
thing?"  "The climate," said Millicent.
I think you had better
give us all the facts, Millicent," said her father.
 ' Kathleen will tell you.
Kathleen hesitated.      she had to say
was rather dreadful. It seemed terrible that such things could happen to a
family like
119
"The Bishop says he cut his throat," she said at
last.
Mrs. Skinner gave a cry and ran up to
her daughter. She wanted to take her in her arms.
"My poor child, " she sobbed.
"Please, don't fuss, Mother, I hate•to be touched. l '
Mrs. Skinner dried her eyes with a
handkerchief and returned to her chair.
It seemed absurd to be
told2 the details of my brother-in-law's death by a friend, " said
Kathleen. "It made us all feel like fools. The Bishop wants very much to
see you, Millicent. He wants to tell you how sorry he is for you." She
paused, but Millicent did not speak. ' He says that Millicent had been away
with Joan and when she came back she found poor Harold lying dead on his
bed."
"It must have been a great shock," said Mr.
Skinner.
Mrs. Skinner began to cry again, but
Kathleen put her hand on her mother's shoulder.
"Don't cry,
Mother," she said. " It'll make your eyes red and people will think
it so funny.
They were all silent while Mrs.
Skinner, drying her eyes, made a successful effort to control herself.3
"There's something else I ought to tell you,"
said Kathleen.
Millicent looked at her sister again,
and her eyes were steady, but watchful. She had the look of a person who is
waiting for a sound which he is afraid to miss.
"I don't want to say anything to
hurt you, dear," Kathleen went on, "but there's something else and I
think you ought to know it. The Bishop says that Harold drank.
"Oh, my dear, how dreadful!"
cried Mrs. Skinner. "What a shock-ing thing to say! 4 Did Gladys Heywood
tell you? WIIat did

'l said it was not true," said
Kathleen. "They told the Bishop in Singapore that Harold had killed
himself while he was suffer-

I I hate to
be touched — -repnerb He MOW, Korna Mewl TPOraK)T
2
it seemed absurd
to be told — MHe [10Ka3iuocb 06HAHb1M BblCJIY'U_1HBaTb
3
Mrs. Skinner...
made a successful effort to control herself — nocne HeK0Toporo YCWIHH MHCCHC
CKMHHeP yaa.nocb OBJraneTb c060ñ
4
Wiat a shocking
thing to say! — KaKHe yxacHb1e Be111H OH FOBOPHT!
120
ing from delirium tremens. I think you ought to deny that,
Millicent.'
" But how did this story start,
Millicent?" asked her father. " It seems to me Harold never drank.
" "Here, " said the widow.
"Did he drink there?"
'Like a fish. "
The answer was so unexpected, and the
tone so sarcastic that all three of them were shocked.
"Millicent, how can you talk like
that of your husband when he's dead?" cried her mother. "I can't
understand you. You've been so strange since you came back. I could never have
believed that a girl of mine could take her husband's death like that. "
"Never mind about that, I
Mother, " said Mr. Skinner. "We can talk about that later.'
He walked to the window and looked out
at the sunny little garden, and then walked back into the room. Mr. Skinner was
upset. He had finished his week's work and he was a free man till Monday
morning. He wanted to have a rest now. He did not care very much about Chinese
missions, but it would be interesting to meet the Bishop. And now this! It
was most unpleasant to hear that his son-in-law was a drunkard and a suicide...
Millicent was looking at him calmly and her calmness irritated him; but instead
of addressing her he spoke to his younger daughter.
"Why don 't you sit down, Kathleen?
There are plenty of chairs in the room. "
Kathleen took a chair and without a word
sat down. Mr. Skinner stopped in front of Millicent and looked at her.
"Of course I see why you told us
Harold had died of fever. I think it was a mistake, because such things come
out sooner or later. You must tell us everything now. We can 't
hope that Canon Heywood and his daughter will tell nobody about it. It will
make it easier for all of us if we know the exact truth. "
Mrs. Skinner and Kathleen waited for Millicent's reply.
"I don't think you will much like
the truth if I tell it to you, she said.
never mind about that — He CTOHT BAaBaTbC51 B 3TO
121
"You must know that you can expect
our sympathy and understanding," said Kathleen.
Millicent looked slowly at the three of
them. She seemed to live in a different world from theirs and to have no connection
with them. I
"You know I wasn't in love
with Harold when I married him, she said thoughtfully. "I was
twenty-seven, and no one else seemed to want to marry me.2 It's true he was
forty-four, and it seemed to me rather old, but he had a very good position,
hadn't he? I could not expect to get a better chance. '
Mrs. Skinner was ready to cry again,
but she remembered the garden party.
"Of course I see now why you took
his photograph away, " she said sadly.
"Don't, Mother!"3 exclaimed Kathleen.
Mrs. Skinner had always thought that it
was a very good photograph of Harold and she had always thought him quite a
fine man. He was heavily built, tall and perhaps a little too fat. He had a
small dark moustache, and his face was deeply burned by the sun. Of course
his best feature was his eyes; they were brown and large,
like Joan's. His conversation was interesting. He was always very attentive to
Mrs. Skinner, and she listened as if she were really interested when he spoke
of his district. Kathleen said he had a very good opinion of himself, but Mrs.
Skinner had always accepted the good opinion that men had of themselves.4
"People were very nice to me at
Kuala Solor, " Millicent said. "Everyone asked us to dinner. Once or
twice I heard men ask Harold to have a drink, but he refused. He said he had
turned over a

I She seemed to live in a different world from theirs and to
have no connection with them. — OHa vwaK 6YAT0 HaXOAHJ1aCb B KaKOM-TO apyroM
MHpe, He HMe}OK HHM HHKaKOrO OTHOURHHfl (cyõbŒmHb1ù oõopom). no one else seemed to
want to marry me — KPOMe Hero, HHKTO, KaXeTCS1 , He c06Hpancq XeHHTbCfl Ha MHe
3
Don't, Mother! —
Ma:Ma, He wano!
4
had always
accepted the good opinion that men had of themselves — Bcerga 6e30F0BopoqH0
HPHHMMæqa Ha Bepy npeYBeJIHqeHHoe MHeHVte o ce6e
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new leaf now that he was a married man.l I didn't know why
they laughed...
They listened to her in silence. Kathleen
never took her eyes off her sister's face; Mr. Skinner stared straight in front
of him.
'It wasn't till I went back to Kuala Solor
a year and a half later that I found out why their manner had seemed to me
strange.
I found out that Harold had come back to
England — when I met him — in order to marry. He did not much mind who it was.2
He just had tonarry somebody. The fact was that he was a real drunkard. He used
to go to bed every night with a bottle of whisky and drink it before morning.
The Chief Secretary told him he would have to resign if he did not stop
drinking. He said he'd give him one more chance. He advised him to take his
leave, go to England and marry so that when he got back he'd have somebody to
look after him. Harold married me because he had hoped I would look after him.
They took bets in Kuala Solor how long I'd make him stay sober. "
"But he was in love with you,"
Mrs. Skinner interrupted. "You don't know how he used to speak to me about
you, and at that time you're speaking of, when you went to Kuala Solor to have
Joan 3 he wrote me such a nice letter about you.'
Millicent looked at her mother again and
her hands, lying on her knees, began to tremble a little. She thought of those
first months of her married life. Though she had nothing much to do the days
passed easily enough. Harold went to his office every morning and she spent an hour
or two learning the Malay language. In the evening Harold played chess with Mr.
Simpson, his assistant, After dinner they read the papers which had left London
six weeks before, and then went to bed. She enjoyed being a married woman, with
a house of her own, and she was pleased with the native servants. It gave her a
pleasant feeling of importance to be the wife of the Resident.
They had been married nearly a year when two Engfish
naturalists came to stay with them for a few days. After dinner the men sat

I he had turned over a new leaf now that he was a
married man — nepeBePHYJ1 HOBYEO crpaHøuy CBOeVt XH3HH, [IOCKOJ1bKY OH
Tenepb qeJIOBeK )KeHaTbIh
2
He did not much
mind who it was. — EMY 6b1.110 He TaK yx BaxHO Ha KOM (XeHHTbCq).
3
to have Joan —
3ð. rae AOJIXHa 6b1na POAHTbC¶ AXOaH
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down to play bridge. Millicent left them presently and went
to bed. She did not know at what hour she was awakened by Harold entering the
room very noisily. She kept silent because she saw that he was quite drunk. She
made up her mind to speak about it in the morning. What would the naturalists
think of him? But in the morning she changed her mind because Harold was quite
sober and dignified.
But she was glad when the visitors went
on with their journey and their life was quiet again.
 Some months later Harold went on a tour
of inspectionl of his district and came back with a bad attack of malaria.
After he had got well he became very shaky and his manner was quite strange. He
could not stand without swaying a little, and he stared at her in
a funny way. Then his assistant Mr. Simpson began to look
worried and once or twice he seemed on the point of saying something2 to her
but didn't dare to say.
"What have you got to say to me,
Mr. Simpson?" she said suddenly one evening.
He flushed and hesitated.
"Nothing. What makes you think I have anything to tell
you?"
'If it's something to do with Harold3
don't you think it would be kinder to tell me frankly?"

He kept silent for a moment.
 "I'm afraid it will hurt your
feelings, 4" he said at last. "And I don't like to say anything about
my chief behind his back, but I think it's a pity your husband keeps a bottle
of whisky at the office. "
He was unwilling to speak. Millicent pressed him and
at last she began to cry. Then he told her that Harold had been drunk more or
less for the last fortnight. The natives were talking about it and they said
that soon he would be as bad as he had been before his marriage.
"Do you think he's drinking now?" she asked.
'l don't know.'
She got up and went to Harold's office.
She found him there smoking cigarettes and talking to three or four Malays who
stood in

I a tour of inspection — HHCneKUHOHHaq rroe3AKa
2
he seemed
on the point of saying something — OH, Ka3WIOCb, 110Pb1BaJICB
VITO-TO
CKa3aTb
3
if it's
something to do with Harold — ecJIM 9T0 KacaeTcS1 Fap0J1bAa
4
it will
hurt your feelings — Baryl 3T0 6yaeT HerlPMflTHO
124
front of him. There was a bottle of whisky in front of him.
His face was red.
The natives went away at once.
I came to see what you were doing, "
she said.
"Take a seat, my dear, take a seat,
" he said politely. She looked at him with angry eyes.
"You're drunk, " she said.
'I have no ideal what you mean, " he
said, staring at her.
Suddenly she burst into tears.
Harold looked at her for a minute, then tears began to run down his cheeks. He
came towards her and fell heavily on his knees.
 "Forgive me, forgive me, " he
said. "l promise you it will never happen again. It was that damned
malaria.'
He cried like a child. Presently she
said, "Will you give me your word ofhonour that you'll never touch liquor
again?"
"Yes, yes. I hate it. "
It was then that she told him that she was with
child.2 He was happy.
 "That is the one thing I wanted,"3 he said. "That will keep
me from liquor. '
And for
several months before it was necessary for her to go to
Kuala Solor to have Joan, Harold kept his word.
She was to leave him for six weeks, and
he promised not to drink in her absence.
Joan was born. Six weeks later
Millicent went home with her baby and a nurse. She spent a night at the mouth
ofthe river and sent a messenger in a canoe to announce her anival. When she
came she saw that Harold was drunk. It wasn't a very pleasant home-coming..
Millicent had almost forgotten her mother
and her father and her sister who sat there silently listening to her.
"l knew that I hated him
then," she said. "I could have killed him.'
"Oh, Millicent, don't say
that!" cried her mother. "Don't forget that he's dead, poor man.'
I have no
idea — He HIMekO Ma.neiftuero npeACTaB.neHVf51
2
It was then that
she told him that she was with child. — HMeHHO Toraa-TO OHa H cKa•ga.na eMY, wo
x,aeT pe6eHKa (3MØamuqecKa}i Koucmpywgug).
3
That is the one
thing I wanted. — 3T0 HMeHHO TO, gero H TaK XOTWI.
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"Go on," said Kathleen.
"VThen I told him that I had learnt
from the Resident's wife everything about his alcoholic past he did not bother
very much more. He drank openly. Three months later he had another attack of
delirium tremens. '
"Why didn't you leave him?" said Kathleen.
'How could I have done
it?" said Millicent. "He would have been dismissedl from the service
in a fortnight. Who was to keep me and Joan? I had to stay. And when he was
sober I had nothing to complain of. He wasn't in love with me, but he was fond
of me; I hadn't married him because I was in love with him but because I wanted
to be married. I did everything I could to keep liquor from him. I watched him
as a cat watches a mouse. But in a little while he had another outbreak. He
neglected his duties. I was afraid com- plaints would be made.
And so it went on till our leave.
"Before we came here I
begged him to be careful. I didn't want any of you to know what sort of man I
had married. And he tried so hard. At last he won. For two years he never
touched a drop. He lost his desire for liquor. He was even able to
joke about it.
 " Mr. Simpson
had left us then and we had another young man called Francis.
I m a reformed
drunkard, you know, Francis,' Harold said to him once. 'If it hadn't been for
my wife2 1'd have been dismissed long ago. I've got the best wife in the world,
Francis.
"You don't know what it meant to me
to hear him say that. I felt that all I'd gone through was worth while 3 | was
so happy." She was silent for a while.
"Then Joan fell ill. When she got
well again I took her down to the mouth of the river in order to give her a
breath of sea air. It was the first time I had been separated from Harold since
I went away to have Joan. I thought a great deal about Harold, and all at once
I knew that I
loved him. I can't tell you how happy I
was to go back to him. I wanted to tell him that and I thought it would mean a
great deal to him.
he would have been dismissed — ero 6bl YBOJIH.nH (ycqoeHoe
npeà,1ŒyceHue mpenn,eeo muna)
2
if it hadn't been
for my wife — ecAM 6b1 He MOH xeHa
3
was worth while —
CTOHJIO 3Toro
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"I was surprised that Harold
was not on the landing-stage' when our boat came. I walked up the little hill
on which the bungalow stood. Joan walked behind me. The bungalow was strangely
silent. There seemed to be no servants about2 and I could not understand
anything. I wondered if Harold had not expected me so soon and was out. I went
up the steps. Harold was not in the sitting-room. I called him, but there was
no answer. I went into the bedroom. Harold wasn't out, he was lying on the bed
asleep. I went up to the bed softly. He was lying on his back and there was an
empty whisky bottle by his side. He was drunk.
"It had begun again. All my
struggle for so many years was wasted. I was in a rage."
Millicent's face grew once again darkly
red, she held onto the arms of the chair she sat in.
'I took him by the shoulders and shook
him. 'You beast,' I cried, 'you beast'. I was so angry I don't know what I did,
I don't know what I said. I shook and shook him. You don't know how terrible he
looked, that large fat man with a purple face that hadn't been shaved for days.
He was breathing heavily. I shouted at him but he took no notice.3 1 tried to
drag him out of bed, but he was too heavy. 'Open your eyes!' I screamed. I
hated him. I hated him all the more because for a week I'd loved him with all
my heart. He had let me down.4 He had let me down. '
The widow licked her dry lips. She was silent for a
minute. "There was a parang on the wall by
the side of the bed. " "What's a parang?" asked Mrs. Skinner.
" Don't be silly, Mother, "
her husband replied. "There's one on the wall behind you.'
He pointed to the Malay sword which had
been brought by Harold who was fond of curios.
Mrs. Skinner drew quietly into the corner
of the sofa, with a little frightened gesture.

I landing-stage — 11PHCTaHb
2 there seemed to be no servants about — Ka3U10Cb, B AOMe He
6bLIO naxe cnyr he took no notice — OH He
4 He had
let me down. — OH MeHH npeaa-n.
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"Suddenly the blood spurted out
from Harold's throat," said Millicent. "A lot of blood ..."
" Millicent, " cried Kathleen
jumping up, "what in God's name do you mean?" I
Mrs. Skinner stood staring at her, her mouth open.
"The parang
wasn't on the wall any more, " said Millicent. "It was on the bed.
Then Harold opened his eyes. They were just like Joan 's.
"l don't understand, " said
Mrs. Skinner. "How could he have committed suicide if he was in the state
you describe?"
Kathleen took her
sister's arm and shook it angrily. " Millicent, for God's sake, explain. '
"The parang was
not on the wall, I told you," repeated Millicent. "l don't know what
happened. There was all the blood, and Harold opened his eyes. He died almost
at once. He did not speak but he gave a sort of gasp.
At last Mr. Skinner found his voice.
But it was murder, do you understand
that?"
Millicent gave him such a look of hatred that he shrank
back.
Mrs. Skinner cried out.
 "Millicent, you didn't do it, did you? 3"
Then Millicent did something that
made them all feel as though their blood were turned to ice in
their veins.4 She chuckled.
"I don't know who else did," she said.
'My God," said Mr. Skinner.
Kathleen was standing with her hands to her heart.
"And what happened then?" she said.

'l screamed," •said Millicent. "I went to the
window and opened it. I called for the nurse. She came with Joan. 'Not Joan,' I
criéd. 'Don't let her come.' She called the cook and told her to take
the child. I cried to her to hurry. 'The Tuan's killed himself!' I cried. She
gave a scream and ran out of the house.

I what in
God's name do you mean? — pauM 60ra, wro xoqeu_lb CKa-
3aTb?
2
he gave a sort of
gasp — CYAOPOXHO     B03AYX
3
you didn't do it,
did you. — xe He caeJ1a.T1a 3Toro, He caena.na?
4
that made them
all feel as though their blood were turned to ice in their veins — orqero y HHX
y Bcex KPOBb CAOBHO 3aCTb1J1a B XHJ1ax
128
"They were all frightened and
nobody came. I wrote a letter to Mr. Francis, telling him what had happened and
asking him to come at once.
'How do you mean you
told him what had happened?" said Kathleen.
'I said to him that on
my return] from the mouth of the river, I had found Harold with his throat cut.
That was all I told him... You know, in the tropics you have to bury dead
people quickly. When Mr. Francis came Harold had been buried for nearly two
days... Mr. Francis was only a boy. I could do anything I wanted with him. I
told him I 'd found the parang in Harold's hand
and there was no doubt he'd killed himself in an attack of
delirium tremens. I showed him the empty bottle. The servants said he had been
drinking hard since I left to go to the sea. I told the same story at Kuala
Solor. Everyone was very kind to me, and the Government
granted me a pension. "
 For a little while nobody spoke. At last
Mr. Skinner gathered himself together.
"l am a member
ofthe legal profession.2 1 am a solicitor. I have certain duties. You've put me
in a monstrous position.' Millicent looked at him with scorn.
"What are you going to do about it?" she asked.
"It was murder, that's what it was,
" he said. "Do you think I can keep it secret?"
'Don't talk nonsense, Father, " said
Kathleen sharply. "You can 't give up your own daughter.'
"You've put me in a monstrous position, " he
repeated.
Millicent shrugged her shoulders again.
"You made me tell you," she said.
At that moment the door was opened by the maid.
"Davis has brought the car round, sir," she
said.
Kathleen had the presence of mind3 to say
something and the maid went.
"We had betterstart now," said Millicent.
on my
return — no B03BpaueHHH
2
lam a member of
the legal profession. — [10 CBOe1h npocþeccHH fl Ha,'L'1CXY K •reM, KTO CTOHT Ha
cyrpaxe 3aKOHa.
3
Kathleen had the
presence of mind — y K3TJIHH HaUIJ¶OCb AOCTaTOYHO
Car„1006JVdAaHUH
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I can't go to the party
now," said Mrs. Skinner, with horror. "I'm too upset. How can we face
the Heywoods? And the Bishop will want to be introduced to you.'
Millicent made a gesture of
indifference. And in her eyes there was still an ironical expression.
must go, Mother,
" said Kathleen. "It would look so funny if we stayed away. "
Mrs. Skinner looked helplessly at her
husband. He went to her and helped her up from the sofa.
"I'm afraid we must go, Mother, " he said.
He led her out of the room. Kathleen
followed them, and a step or two behind came Millicent.
"You'll get used to it, you
know," she said quietly. "At first I thought of it all the time, but
now I forget it for two or three days together. I don't think there's any danger
for us. "
They did not answer. They walked
through the hall and out of the front door. The three ladies got into the back
of the car and Mr. Skinner sat down beside the driver. As it was an old car and
they had no self-starter Davis went to crank it up. Mr. Skinner turned round
and looked sadly at Millicent.
"You should not have told us the story, "l he
said. "I think it

was most selfish of you.
Davis took his seat and
they drove off to the Canon's gardenparty.
Exercises
Comprehension Check
1.        Say
who in the story:
I) was going to a garden-party.
2)
was in favour of the jumper.
3)
had thought that it was strange that her daughter had no
photographs of her husband in her room.

4)
went up to London every morning and came down every
evening.
You should
not have told us the story. — Tbi He AOJIXHa 6bIJ1a paccKa-
3b1BaTb WdM 3TY HCTopmO.
130

2.
3. 5) didn't want to get rid of Kathleen.
6)
had a bad colour and was too fat.
7)
said that Harold had committed suicide.
8)
had drunk a lot.
9)
in fact had killed Harold.
10)     drove
the family to the garden-party.
Say who in
the story said it and in connection with what.
I) "There's no reason why we
should all look as if we'd just come from a funeral. "
2)
"Millicent, why did you tell us that Harold had died of
3)
'l wanted Joan to think that her father
had died of fever. '
4)
"They told the Bishop in Singapore that Harold had killed
himself while he was suffering from delirium tremens. '

5)
"I don't
think you will much like the truth if I tell it to you. '
6)
"And I don't like to say anything about my chief behind his
back, but I think it's a pity your husband keeps a bottle of whisky at the
office. "
7)
'It was murder, that's what it was.'
8)
' I can't go to the party now. I'm too upset. "
9)
"You should not have told us the story. I think it
was most selfish of you. "
Mate the
beginnings of the sentences in Part A with the endings in
Part B.
Part A
I) Canon Heywood had a beautiful day
for his garden party:
2)
The jumper was black and white and Kathleen liked it
3)
Millicent had been strangely silent
4)
Generally Kathleen drove the car
5)
" It seemed absurd to be told the details of my
brother-inlaw's death by a friend," said Kathleen,
6)
Mrs. Skinner had always thought that it was a very good
photograph of Harold .
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2)

The jumper was black and white and Kathleen liked it,

5.

Answer the following questions to the story.

but
  it wasn't mourning after all. Millicent, Mrs. Skinner's elder daughter, was
  infayour of it.

l ) Who was Mrs. Skinner mourning for?

3)

"Why,
  Kathleen, where's Harold's photograph?" Mrs.

2) What kind of hat did she put on?

Skinner
  asked, Kathleen looked around. It no longer

3) What sort of day is good for a garden
  party9

stood in its place.

4) Why was it a mistake to have kept Joan so long in
  the

4)

"Father
  asked if he ought to wear a top-hat," she said. "I

tropics?

said it was better to be on the safe side. '

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133

7)
  The Chief Secretary told him .
8)
  "Everyone was kind to me, .
9)
  "You should not have told us the story, " he said, .
Part B
1)   but on grand occasions like this,
  Davis, who was their gardener, put on his uniform and acted as chauffeur.

5)
  Why had Mrs. Skinner and Kathleen discussed at luncheon if
  Kathleen should wear her jumper or her black chiffon blouse?
6)
  How long had Harold been dead already?
7)
  How did Millicent, Mrs. Skinner's elder daughter, behave after
  her husband's death?
8)
  Why was a garden party going to be a grand affair?

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2)'I think it was most selfish
of you.'                       'there no hope for Kathleen to get married?      9)
Why was
3)
. and the Government granted me a pension. had Harold died? Had
he died of fever or had he 10) How
4)
. it was warm and the sky was blue.    committed suicide?
5)
. and she had always thought him a fine man.     What had the
Bishop told Kathleen about Harold's death?
11)
6)
. since she came back from Borneo. Skinner ask his daughter to
tell the family 12) Why did Mr.
7)but it was not mourning after all.                                    the
whole truth?

4.     Say true orfalse to the following statements.
l) Mrs.
  Skinner's son-in-law was alive.
2)
  Canon Heywood had a beautiful day for a garden party.
3)       Joan was too playful for her age.
4)
  Mr. Skinner
  went to London three days a week.
5)
  Mrs. Skinner's daughter Kathleen was happily married. 6) The
  Bishop told Kathleen that Harold had died of a heart attack.
7)
  The Bishop's story made everybody feel like fools.
8)
  Millicent had
  married Harold for love.
9)
  Harold had been an ideal husband for Millicent.
10)
  Harold had given
  Millicent a word of honour that he would not touch liquor again.
11)
  Kathleen drove the whole family to the garden party.
12)      Harold
  committed suicide.

14)     What was Harold's and Millicent's
  routine back in Borneo?
15)     Why
  couldn't Millicent leave Harold?
 16) Why
  did Mr. Skinner say, after hearing Millicent's story, that it was a murder?
17)
  How did Millicent react to it?
18)     Did
  Mrs. Skinner go to the party after she heard the story of her son-in-law's
  death?
      Working with the Vocabulary
1.        Make up a list of words denoting family relations.
2.       Say
  it differently, paying attention to the words and phrases italicised.
1) Mrs. Skinner liked to be in good time.

8)he would
have to resign if he "didn't stop drinking. 13) How had Millicent married
Harold — for love or for his 9)it made us all feel like fools.       position?

5)
"He was able to accompany his wife and daughters to the
Canon's garden party only because it was Saturday.
6)
"I'm sure Harold wouldn't wish me to wear mourningfor him
indefinitely. "
7)
The thought of her husband turned her ideas to the party they
were going to.
3.       Fill in the gaps in the sentences with proper
phrases or their elements  given below (in an appropriate form).
To be busy with; to be in favour of; to be on the safe
side; on grand occasions; on one's way home; to die of; to suffer from; to be
in love with.
l) Generally Kathleen drove the car,
but like this Davis,
who was their gardener, put on his uniform and
acted as a chauffeur.
2) Her daughter Kathleen was at the
writing-table, with some work for the Ladies' Golf Club
as she was the honorary secretary of the Club.
3) The Bishop spent
two orthree days in Singapore home.
4) The jumper was black and white and
Kathleen liked it, but it was not mourning after all. Millicent, Mrs. Skinner's
elder daughter, wasfavourit.
5) " Millicent, "
said Kathleen suddenly, "why did you tell us that Harold
6)
"They told the Bishop in Singapore that Harold had killed
himself while hedelirium tremens. "
7)
"You know I wasn't Harold when I married
him, " she said thoughtfully.
5.        Choose
the right word to fill in the gaps.
l) She had spoken of it once, but Millicent hadno reply.
a)   done
b)  made
c)   said
2) Kathleen had not much hopes
a)
neither
b)  either
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c)
also
3)
She watched her sistera moment.
a)   during
b)   for
c)
while
4)
"The Bishop says that Harold committedsuicide, said
Kathleen.
b) the
5)
"What made
himsuch a dreadful thing?"
a)   to do
b) doing
c) do
6) Millicent was looking at him
       a)
calm
b) calmly
6)
"Oh, my dear, how
a)
dreadful
b)   dreadfully
7)
"It will make it easier for all of us if we the exact truth.'
a)
shall know
b)   know
8)
He crieda child.
a)
like
b)   as
Discussion
 Do you agree that
Millicent had killed her husband? Give your reasoning.
2.
Give sketch-portraits of all the Skinners.
3.
Do you agree that some murders can be justified?
4.
If Millicent had been brought to court, would she have been
justified there? Why?
5.
Do you sympathise with Millicent or do you consider her to be a
murderer?

ознакомительная копия

Vocabulary

 adverb наречие

геогр. — география

сј conjunction союз

зд. — здесь

int intejection междометие

разг. — употребительно в разго-

п поип существительное

ворной речи

Принятые сокращения

а adjective прилагательное

р! plural множественное число

а predic. adjective predicative при-

pron pronoun местоимение

лагательное, употребляющее-

р. р. past participle причастие про-

ся только предикативно, т. е.

шедшего времени

в качестве именной части со-

prp preposition предлог

ставного сказуемого

v verb глагол

В словаре даны в основном те значения слов, которые встречаются
в контексте.

able [erbl] а
    способный; be able (to)

acting СКИП] п игра (театр.)

мочь, быть в состоянии

actually [ ' CktjualI] adv фактически,

aboard [а 'bo:d]
    adv,prep на корабле,

на самом деле

на борту; аи посадка закон-

add [&d] v добавлять

чена

additional [а ' dIfanall а добавочный,

about [a'baut] prp о,
    об; adv около,

дополнительный

приблизительно, кругом; be —

address [a'dresl v обращаться; п

«о) собираться (что-л. сделать)

адрес

above [a'b,wl prp над

admit [ad'mrt] v допускать, при-

absence [' Cbsansl п отсутствие

нимать

accept [аК' septl принимать

adventure [ad'ventJa] п приклю-

ассотрапу [э '
    Клтраш1 v сопро-

чение

вождать

advice [3d'varsl п совет

according Со) [а'
    Комо] prp соглас-

advise [ad'varzl v советовать

но, в соответствии

arair [a'fea] п дело

accuse [а' kju:zl обвинять

afaid [а ' freld] apredic. испуганный;

accustomed [a'kstamdl
    р. р. при-

be — (01) бояться

выкший; be — иметь привычку,

аПег a:Ra] prp после, за; сј после

привыкнуть

того как

ache [erk1 п боль

аПетооп [, а:Па' пил] п время после

across [a'kms] prp
    через, сквозь; adv

полудня; in the — днем

поперек, на ту сторону

again [3' qen] adv опять, снова

act [&kt] v действовать, поступать;

against [3' genst] рт против, к

играть (роль в спектакле)

agency [' ек"запм] п агентство

ago [a'goul adv ТОМУ назад; long — давно agree [3'
gri:1 1' соглашаться air [га] п воздух alarm [a'la:ml п тревога alive [a'law] а
живой all [31] ртп всё, все; at — вообще, совсем; — over по всему пространству
поверхности allow [a'lau] разрешать almost [ ' :rlmoust] adv почти акте
la'loun] РОДИН, одинокий, сам, сама; lea»e — оставить в покое along [a'bnl рт
вдоль, по; adv с собой, вместе aloud [a'laud] adv громко, вслух already [3.•l '
redIl adv уже also [' :r.lsoul advrrm,ke, также although [o:l' дои] сј хотя, несмотря
на то, что altogether [ , a:lta' gedal adv вполне,
всецело always ['a:lwaz] ady всегда amazement [a'mewmant] п изумление among (а
' ТАП] prp среди amuse [a'mju:zl ” забавлять, раз-
мекать angrily [' angrrlIl adv сердито, гнев-
но апт ' angrrl а сердитый; be — сердиться,
рассердиться anniversary  п годовщина аппоипсе [а ' naunsl объявлять another [а' плаз] pron еще
один, другой anxious ' aokfas] а озабоченный apologise [а ' p№dyrz] v приносить
извинения appear [а ' pral ” появляться арреатпсе [а '
praransl п внешность; появление; призрак approach [SproutJ] •v приближаться
Argentine cd3antaml п аргентинец апп [ст] п рука (от кисти до риеча); ручка
(кресла) around [a'raundl prp вокруг; окоЛО, по arrange [3' remd31 уустраивать,
располагать; сговариваться, уславливаться arrangement [а ' remd3mantl п
устройство; посадка; договоренность arrival rawll п прибытие ай [ctl п
искусство article ['ctkkl] п статья as [и, и] adv; сј когда, так как; as as так же как; as Т как будто;
as soon as как только Asiatic [,еф' eltlk] а азиатский
ashamed [a'№mdl а prdic. пристыженный; be — (00 стыдиться asleep [а ' sli.pl а
predic спящий; be — спать; fall — заснуть assistant [a'№tant] п помощник, продавец astonish
[as'tonrfl v удивлять, поражать; be — удивляться, поражаться attack [a'tzkl
нападать; п приступ attention [а ' tenfanl п внимание; рау  — обращать внимание attentive [а '
tentw] а внимательный avoid [a'vxd] v избегать await [а 'wett] 1' ожидать awaken [э' welkan] будить awful [з:П]
а внушающий страх;  разг. ужасный в baby ['belbI] п ребенок, младенец bacillus [Ьэ' SIlasl п
бацилла back [b&k] п спина; а задний; adv назад, обратно

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background ['bækgraundl n (bow,

besides [bl'sardz] adv KPOMe Toro,

3,aAHHü mal-I; rny6HHa

cBepx Toro

bacterium [bæ ' ktlanaml n 6aKTePHH

bet [bet] n napu; take aepxaTb

pl bacteria

napu

bald [bo:ldl a

between [bl'twi:nl prp Mexay

ball            n Mqq, map

beyond [bl'jondl adv           3a; Ha

band [bændJ n opKecTp

pacCTO'1HHH

bank [bænkl n 6eper

bill [bill n cwr

bar [bŒl n 6pycoK

binding ['barndll)] n nepen.ner

bare [bea] a 60coii

bird (bad] n rtTMua

bargain ['ba:gtnl n (mopeoeag) caeyr-

bishop ['blfap] n enucK011 bite
  (bit, bitten) [bart (bit, bitn)l v

barrow ['bæroul n TagKa

KYCaTb', n YKYC

battle [bætl] n 6MTBa, cpaxeHqe

blackguard l'blæga:d] n Heroilqii

beach [bttJ] n mqx

[blerm] v nopHuaTb, ctn-narrb BH-

bead [bi:dl n 6ycHHa; pl õycbl

HOBHHM; n nopuuaHMe, ynpeK

bear (bore, born) [bea (bo:,            v He-

blank [blænkl a nycT0ü,
  HHCTHiÍ,

cur, nepeH0CHTb, Bbl,aepxHBaTb

HeHCnHCaHHbIii (0 5YMaee)

beard [bladl n 60poaa

blast [blŒstl n npowrwrbe

beast [bi:stl n 3Bepb

blind [blamd] a cnenoM

beautiful [bju:tlfal] a KPaCHBbrh

blood [blAdl n KPOBb

beauty I 'bju:tll n Kpaco-ra

blouse [blauz] n 6JIY3Ka

bed [bed] n KJIYM6a

blowl (blew, blown) [blou (blu:,
  bloun)]

become (became, become) [bl'knrn

V AYTb; — up B30PBaTb; tube AY-

(bl ' kerm, bl' knrn)l V CTaHOBHTb-

XOBoe pyxbe blow2 n
  yuap

before [bl' fo:] cj npeyue qeM, nepea

blue [blŒ] a roJ1y60ñ, CHI-IMM

         (TeM KaK),

boast Iboustl v XBaCThTb

beg [beg] v rrpocwrb; — pardon ripo-

boat [bout] n napoxoa, JlOAKa

CMTb npotueHHH

body ['bodil n reJ10

begin (began, begun) 1b] gm (bl' gæn,

boil Iborl] v KHflHTHTb

br' gnn)] v HaqHHaTb

boot [bœtl n 60THHOK

beginning [bl ' grtlll)l n HaqœIO

bortsch [b:y.Jl n 60P111

behave [bl' hew] v BecTH ce6q behind [bl' harndl adv   1103a,uw;

both [bou91 pron 06a; both ... and

nocne, 3a

bother ['boôal v

believe [bl' li:v] v Bepwrb

BOJIHOBaTbCH

belong [bl'         v npHHaW1exaTb

bottle Ibotl] n 6YTb1JIKa

below [bl'loul adv HHXe, BHH3Y,

bowl [baul v KlaHHTbCH

BHH3

bow2 [boul n HOC (Kopg6AR)

bend (bent, bent) [bend (bent)] v cru-

box [boks] n

6aTb (CO, n-ryrb (cg)

brass-plate ['brŒs pleltl n
  MeAHag

berth [ba:9] n KOÜKa (Ha napoxoòe)

nou_1eqKa (Ha òæpu)

beside [bf sard] prp pBA0N•rc                   bravely
[brewll] adv xpa6po

break
(broke, broken) [brerk (brouk, broukn)] V JlOMaTb, pa36MBaTb; rrpePb1BaTb
breast [brest] n rpyab

breath
[bre9J n 11b1_XaHHe breathe [bri:ðl v Ablu_raTb breathlessly [ ' bre91rs111
adv 3arwxaB-
UMCF, 3a•raHB AblMHHe breeze Ibri:zl
n nerK_HÜ BerepoK bridge [br1d31 n MOCT bright Ibrart] a YMHbIh; qpKHii;
qcHb[ñ, cBeTJINji; adv flPK0 brilliantly ['brdjanthl adv 6nec•rmue bring
(brought) [bnn v npHH0CHTb, 11PHBOAHTb
British
[bntlfl a 6pwraHcKHÌi, aHr-
JIHÜCKHii broad [bro:dl a brother-in-law [ 'bnðarm. la:] n
3HTb, AeBepb, LUYPHH bundle lbxndl] n y."3eJ1 bungalow [ 'bAogalou] n
6YHrano, AOM c BepaHA0h burn (burnt, burnt) [ba:n (ba:nt)l v ropeTb; 3aropaTb
(Ha comtge) burst (burst, burst) [bast (bast)] v
J1011HYTb,•
OTOPBaTbCW, 3aJIMTbCfl
(CMexoM, cne3ŒMU) busily ['bmll]
adv aeJIOBHTO butler l'bAtlal n ABOpeUKHM, crapnaKeü buttonl [bAtn] n nyroBHua

button2
KHOmca (380HKa) buy (bought, bought) [bar v noKynaTb
c
cab Ikæbl n Ke6, E-taeMHb[M
3K_vmax cabman l ' kæbman] n H3B03qHK calculation [ , kælkju'
le¶an] n pacqer; BbAhCJIeHHe can Iko:ll V 3BaTb, OKJIMKaTb; Ha3b1-
BaTb; — on HaHeCTH BH3HT calm
[kŒm] a CROKOÜHb1ñ
camera ['kæmara] n CKHM annapaT
candle Ikændll n cBeqa canoe [ka'nu•l n Kai--103, qeJIH0K
canon
['kænanl n KaHOHHK (gepx.)
['kænvas] n 6pe3eHT car [ka.•] n aBTOM06W1b; BaroH card [kŒd]
n Kap•ra care [kea] v 3a60TMTbCfl; n 3a60era, BE-IHMaHHe•, take — fl03a60THTbCfl
carefill ['keafall a ocrropo»awñ, BE-MMareJ1bHbIM carelessly l '
keallslll adv He6pexH0, HeOCTOPOXHO; 6e33a60TH0 carrier-pigeon [ ' kæna
prd3ml n noqTOBb1ñ rony6b carry ['kærrl v Hecrrw, — away
YHOCHTb casel Ikelsl n œryqaiå case2 KOP06Ka catch (caught, caught)
[kætf (ko:t)] v 110ÜMaTb, CXBaTHTb', cold apoCTYAHTbcw, — up
CXBaTMTb, 3aXBaTMTb cause Iko:z] n npnqm--ra; v rrpuqHHBTb celebrity [M'
lebntll n 3HaMeHHTOCTb cellar l' sela] n 110ABa.n, norpe6 centre ['sental n
uek-rrp century sentfarl] n BeK, CTOJ1errne certain [sa:tnl a HeKHh certainly
sa:tnll] adv KOHe¼HO certificate [so' tif[kltl n 11MCbMeHHOe yaocT0BepeHMe, CBHuereJ1bCTBO certify
I'sa:tlfml v YA0CT0BepqTb, [IOATBepxuaTb chain [tJe1nl n uertb champagne
Lfæm'pern] n waMnaHCKoe chance [tfa:nsl n maHC, B03MOXHOCTb change
ltfemd3] n nepeMeHa, M3Me-
HeHHe; V MeHflTb(Cfl) chapter [ '
tJæptal n rnawa

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character
'kænktal n 06pa3; nepcoHax; pa3e. qynaK, OPWl,fE-raJ1 check [tfekl n qeK;
v OCTaHaBJIMBaTb-
cheek
(tfi:k] n 1_ueKa chess ltfes] n ura,XMaTb1 chew [tJu:l v xeBaTb chief [tfi:fl a
rJ1aBHHR chink [tJffiJkl n uaeJ1b chuckle [tfAkl] v 110CMeHBaTbCH,
XHVOTb circle Isa:kll n Kpyr cistern SIStanl n 6aK clasp [klŒsp] n 3acTexva
clay [kler] n rilHHa clean [kli:nl a HMCTbIä, aKKypaTHb1Ü; V qMCTHTb
clean-shaven 'Jervn] a '-MCTO
Bb16pHTb1ÿi
clear [kli'l a ACHbrM clever ['kleval a YMHHii click [kllkl n 1.UeJIKaHbe; v client klarant] n K'IHeHT
climate I '
klalrnrtl n vu¶MMaT climb [klarm] v B3ÕHPaTbC¶, Kapa6-
KaTbCH closel (klousl adv 6JIH3KO closel [klouzl v
3akPHBaTb(cq) clothes [klouðz] n marbe, 0Aexua clue [klu:] n (K
pauaòce q.
clutch
(klAtJ] v cxBaTHTb, 3axaTb; n cxaTHe coal [koull n yr0J1b
coarse
[ko:sl a rpy6b1ñ coat [kout] n nanvro; 11HAXaK,
coil [k311]
n BHTOK, KOAbUO (o eepegxe) collar ['kola] n BOPOTHHK, BOPOTHHHOK colonel
[ka:nll n TIOJIKOBHMK off v COCKOt-1MTb•, come out Bbl11J1b1Tb (Hapyœcy), CTaTb H3BecTHb1M
commit [ka'
rmtl V COBepmaTb', — suicide rlOKOHHHTb c c060W comfortable [ ' kunfatabl] a
yaoÕHb1M complain [kam ' pleml v XUIOBaTbCq complaint [kam' plemt] n
xan06a complete [kam'pli:tl a 110JIHb1Ü, 3aKOHqeHHb1iÍ communicate [k" rnjumkert] v
CBH3aTbCW, C006uaTb conceal [kan'si:l] v npqTaTb, CKPb1 BaTb conduct [ • kandAktl n
noBeaeHHe confession [kan ' fefanl n 11pM3HaHHe confidential [ , konfi' denfall
a KOH(þHneHUHU1bHb1Ü, CeKPeTHbIM confirm [kan 'fa:ml v ff0ATBepxuaTb
confusing [kan a 3anyraHHHü, Her10HflTHbIü connection
[ka'nekJanl n OTHOUJeFrue
consist (of)
[kan' SISt] v COCTOHTb (w) conspiracy Ikan'splrasl] n 3ar0Bop consult [kan
'SAItl v COBeTOBaTbCH
contain Ikan'tern] v coaepxaTb B ce6e

continue [kan 'trnju:l v
rlPOAOJIXaTb conversation [ , konva' selfanl n 6eceaa cool [ku:l] a
CTIOKOüHb1ìÍ copy ['koprl v nepenncb1BaTb, CHM-
Marb k'Or1HEO corner ['k'.na] n YTOJI correct [ka ' rektl v
norrpaBJIYTb
count
[kaunt] n couple [lapl] n napa couplet ['knpllt] n PmMOBaHHOe ABYCTHIUHe courage ['knr1d31 n CMeJIOCTb,
MYXeCTBO course Iko:s]; of KOHeqHO courtyard l'ko:tjŒd] n ABOP cover kwa]
v 110KPb1BaTb crack [krækl n TpecK; v rlPOH3BOJIHTb rpecvv
crank up
[krænkl v 3aBOAHTb pyxoHTbK) crash [kræJ] n rpoxo-r create
[krr'eltl v C03AaBaTb creature l' kri:tfal n cyruecTB0 crew [kru:] n 3KHnax
(cyòHa) crime [krarml n npecTY'1TJ1eHhe
criminal l'
knmmall n npecryr1HHK crook [krukl n 06MaHLUHK, MOU1eHHHK crossly ['krosll] adv
cepamo, cBapAMBO
crowd
Ikraudl n Tonna cry [krarl v Kpvtyarb, 11J1aKaTb•, — out BOCKJIHUaTb; n KPVIK
cultivation I. kAlt1've1Janl n KYJ1bTypa (6wcmepuü) cup [knp] n gau_rxa
curio l'kjuanou] n peAKag, aHTHKBapHasr Bel_Ub curiously kjuonasll] adv
crpaHHo; c Iff06011b1TCTBOM curse [ka:sl v rup0K11HHaTb; pyraTb•cq curtain [ka•tn] n
3aHaBecKa cut (cut, cut) [kAt (kAt)] v pe3aTb, nope3aTb•, n uapaTIHHa
damned [dæmd] a np0KJMTbLW,
qepTOBCKMit
dance [dans]
v TaHUeBaTb danger I demdsal n onacHOCTb dangerous demd3arasl a onaCHb1Ü
dare Idea] v OCMeJIMBaTbCfl dark IdŒkl a TeMHb1ii darling n MW1b1ii,
Aoporoii; rony6HHK dawn [do:n] v OCeHHTb dead Idedl a MePTBb1W, rlOJTHbIW,
coBePmeHHb1ñ; be — YMepeTb deal [di:l] a great — MHOI'O death [de9] n
CMePTb debt Idet] n aonr decide [dl'saldl v PeUMTb(CH)
decision
Idl' S13nl n pemeHHe deck Idek] n nuy6a decorate ['dekarelt] v YKpawaTb deep
[dipl a DIY60KHñ defend Idl'fend] v 3aUIHu.taTb definite [ ' deftnltl a
onpeneneHHHiÍ delay [dr'lell n 3aaepxKa; v 3aaep-

delirium
tremens Imam 'tri:mans] n 6enaq ropH¼Ka demand [dl' ma:nd] v
cnpau_1MBffl'b, Tpe60Barb demonstrative [dl' monstrotrvl a ae MOHCTPaTHBHb1h, OTKPOBeHHbIM deny
Idl' nail v OTPHUaTb descend [dr' send] v COMTH, crrycTHTbCq describe (dlS' kraib] v OHHCb1BaTb
deserve [d" za:vl v 3aCJIYXHBaTb design [dl' zaml n KOHCTPYKLIHH, npoeKr
desire [dl'zalal v XeJ1aTb', n xena-
Hue desk (desk] n rlHCbh,reHHb1M CTOJI despair Idls'peal n
orqam--me destruction [dls'trùfen] n pa3pY1_ueHHe, YHHYTOXeHHe detail l'
drterll n rmp06HocTb devil devil] n AbHBOJ1 devote [dl'vout] v nocBquaTb
diamond
darmand] n 6PWIJIHaHT die [dall v YMHpaTb different I'dlfrantl a pa3Hb1ii, pa3-

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dig (dug,
dug) [dig (dng).l v KOnaTb dignified I ' drgnlfald] a BWIHqeCTBeHHblü;
oõnumou_1MiÍ HYBCTBOM C06CTBeHHOro AOCTOHHCTBa direction [dr'
rekfanl n HanpanneHHe disappear l, disa'pral v ucqe3a•rb disappearance
[,dlsa'parans] n HCqe3HOBeHHe disappoint [ , diso'pomt] v pa30qapoBblBaTb(CH)
discipline dislplml n discover Idls'k,wal v Y3HaBaTb, OT-
KPb1BaTb, 06HapyxHBffTb discuss [dlS' kns] v 06CY)KAarb disease Idl'
zi:zl n 60ne3Hb disguise [dis'gmz] v nepeoaeBaTbcq,
Macvxwp0BaTbcq•, n MaCKHPOBKa, MacKa dismiss [dls'nusl v
YBOJ1bHflTb disorder Idls'o:dal n 6ecnopHA0K distort Idrs'to.t] v HCYxa,xaTb
district dlstrlktl n pah0H disturb [dis'ta:b] v 6eCnOKOHTb, Mewary, CMY1_UaTb
divide (by) [dl ' valdl v AWMTb(CH) doorway ['do:wel] n BXOA B 110Me1_ueHHe; in
the — B ABepsrx doubt [dautl n COMHeHHe; v COMHeB.aTbCq downstairs daun steaz]
adv BHH3 no .neCTHMUe; BHH3Y doze [douzl v apeMaTb drag [dræg] v TaUIHTb draw (drew, drawn)
[dro: (dru:,
V TAHYTb, 0T0ABHraTb(cg) dreadful ['dredfal) a
yxacHb1ñ, OTBPaTHTeJ1bHb1M dream [dri•m] n cow, v YBHAeTb COH; MeqrraTb
dreaminess [ ' dri:rmms] n Mewra•renbHOCTb dress [dres] n rmaTbe; v oaeBaTb(CH)
drift [drrftl v apeñÖ0BaTb, OTHOCHTbcq TeqeHHeM drink (drank,
drunk) [drink (drænk, drnnk)l v flMTb drive (drove, driven) [draw (drouv,
dnvn)] v exaTb, BecTH Mal.UHHY driver draw ] n 1110(Þep drop [drop] v
YPOHHTb, n Kannq drunkard drnr)kadl n ribRHMua dry tdral] a cyxoi*; v CYUIMTb,
BblcyUMBaTb, ocyl_uwrb
duchess
dAtJIS] n repuorHHq dull [dnl] a CKYMHb1Ü during I 'djuarrnl prp B •regeHHe, BO
BpeMSI dusty [ ' thstl] a 11b1J1bHb1ii duty [
' djutl] n aonr, 06B3aHHOCTb
each [i:tn
pron Kax,llblñ; each other Apyr Apyra ear bal n yxo early a:lll adv
paHo; a paHHHii earn [an] v 3apa6aTb1BaTb earth la:6] n 3eMJ1fl, rpyyr East
[i•st] n BOCTOK eat (ate, eaten) li:t (et, ert, v eCTb eavesdropper [ ' i•vz,
dropa} n noncnyIMHBaK)111Hñ eccentric [1k' sentrik] a 3KcueHTPHq-
education l,
edju'keüan] n 06pa30BaHHe effort efatl n ycwme egg leg] n Hüuo either
[ ' alðal pron OAMH H3
either ...
or cj WIH WIM elbow [ ' elbou] n '10KOTb elder [ ' eldal a CTapuIHA (a CCMbe)
•e [els] pron Apyroñ; adv er_ue, KPOMe empty l' emptil a nyvroü,
CB06011HbLi* (o Mecme) engaged [In(geId3dl a 3aHATb1h, norJlOU_1eHHHh•,
110MOJIBneHHb1fi engagement [m' geldsmant] n 3aHflTHe; Bcrpeqa, CBMuaHMe enjoy
[In' d3011 v HacnaxaaTbcq enough [1' nnfl adv aOCTaTOHHO enter ['enta] v
BXOAHTb', nocrynaTb  (Ha pa60my) escape [IS kelp] n 6ercTBo; v YCKOJ1b-
3aTb even
[i.vn] adv aa_xe event [1' vent] n C06b1THe ever ['eva] adv
Koraa-HH6YÃb, Koraa-JIM60; Bceraa, Koraa 6H TO  HH 6WIO evidence evidansl n
AOKa3æreJ1bCTBO evidently adv OqeBMAH0 exact llg' zæktl a
TOHHb1iá excellent ['eksalant] a OTJIH¼Hb1Ü,
npeBocxom-1b[iÍ except [1k' sept] prp 3a HcvunoqeHHeM excitement
[Lk'smtmantl n B036yxaeHMe, BOJIHeHMe exciting [1k' saltlnl a
3aXBaTb1Bak0111Hh exclaim Irks' klerrn] v BOCKJIMUaTb excuse [Iks' kjœz] v
H3BHHflTb(Cfl) expect [Iks'pektl v OXMAaTb expel [Iks'pell v HCKJIK)gaTb exist
[lg ' ZlSt] V cyluecrB0BaTb expensive [Iks'pensw] a aoporoñ,

explain
[Iks' pleml v 06b"CHWTb explosion [Iks' plou3nl n B3Pb1B expression [Iks'
preJan] n BEApaxeHHe extraordinary Irks' tro:dnn] a He06b1- gahHb1M, YAHBwreJ1bHHÜ extremely
[Iks'tri:mlll adv qpe3Bb1gaiiH0 exultation l, egml'te1Jan] n JIHKOBaHHe,
TOPXeCTBO eye [al] n rna3
face [fersl
n JIHUO; (ÒOMa); v cMo•rpeTb B JIHUO', CTOflTb nepea faint [fernt] v
naaaTb B 06MOPOK faithfully fe19fa111 adv npeAaHHo; 'ours c COBepmeHHb1M
not-rreHHeM (3axmoqumeJibHag Øpa3a nuch,ua) fall (fell, fallen) [fa•l
(fel, fo:ln)] v nanaTb; ill 3a60JœTb false [fo:lsl a
(ÞW1bU]HBbIÜ
famous ['fermasl a 3HaMeHMTb1iÍ,
H3BeCTHbIiå farewell [fea•wel] n npouaaHMe fast
[fustl adv 6b1c•rpo fate [fen] n cyAb5a, POK; rH6eJ1b fatten I 'fætanll)l
v XHPeTb, TWIC-

favourite
' fervantl a Jff06HMHii fear [fia] n crpax; v 60HTbCq feather feðal n nepo
(nmugw) feature ['frtfal n qep•ra feel (felt, felt) lfi:l (felt)l v
HYBCTBOBaTb', OUIyr1b1BaTb feeling l' fellow ('feloul n napeHb;
fellow-passenger [ ' pæsmd3al n nonyrqHK fever ftva] n nuxopaAKa few
IfJLtl a MUIO; a — HeCKOJIbKO fight (fought, fought) [fait v apaTbcq,
cpaxaTbcq; n apaKa, cpaxeHHe figure ['figal n (ÞMrypa; fill (up) [fill v HanOJIHHTb,
3anonHHTb finally [ ' funalll adv B KOHUe KOHIWB', B KOHeqHOM cqeme find (found, found)
[famd (faund)l v
HaiáTH; out 06HaPYXHTb, Y3HaTb fine [faml a
rrpeKpacHb1i*, OTJIHH-
finger [ '
fingal n naneu firel [faral n KocTep fire2 v CTpenqTb firmly [ ' farnll] adv
TBepao fisherman flJaman] n Pb16aK fist [fist] n KYJ1aK fit [fit] a
rouHHiá,  be

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 (for) 110AXOAHTb, COOTBeTCTBOBaTb
name [flerm] n n,qaMq flash Iflæfl n BCflbIU_lKa; v 6bICTPO
rlPOMeJ1bKHyrb nower flaual n 1.1BeroK
flush [flAfl V HPWIHBaTb K JIHUY (O Kpoeu); Bcnb1XHYTb, r10KpacHeTb
flying a pa3BeBaK)u1Hiicq•, neryqnñ fold [fould] v CKJ1aAb1BaTb; n
cwraa-
follow foloul v cneAOBaTb, HATH 3a; (the) following
c,T1eAyoruee fond [fond] a m06m_uHñ; be — (OD JffO-
6HTb, 6b1Tb RPMBfl3aHHb1M
food [fu•d]
n fool [fill] n rnyneu foolish I 'full" a rJIY11bIh foot [futl n Hora
(cmym-tn)•, pl feet
footmark
l ' futmŒk] n cnea HorM footstep I ' futstep] n mar; cnen forehead [ ' fondl n '106 forge [fo:d3]
v 110AaeJ1bIBaTb forget (forgM, twgotten) [fa' get (fa ' got, fo'gotn)l v
3a6b1BaTb forgive (forgave, forgiven) [fa' glV
(fa r gerv, fa' gran)] v
rrpou_1aTb formerly [ ' fo:malll adv paHb1_ue formulate ['fo:mjulertl v
(bOPMYJIH- POBaTb forth Ifo:91 adv Brrepea, AU1b1ue fortnight [' fo:tnalt] n ABe
HeueJIH forward ['fo:wad] adv gnepeA fountain I 'fauntln] n MCTOLIHHK, d)OH-
Tar-å frankly [' frænkll] adv OTKPOBeHHO free [fri:] a
CB060AHb1ñ freeze (froze, frozen) [fri:z (frouz, frouzn)] v 3aMep3aTb;
3aMopaXMBaTb fresh [freJl a cBe»am, HOBblh, CJ1eAHHñ fry [frai] xapHTb
friendly ['frendll] a apyxecKHW, adv apyxem06HO fright tfrart] n c-rpax, wcnyr
frighten Ifraltnl v nyraTb fulfil [ful'fil] Y Bblr10JIHSITb
full (of) [full
a nom-lblñ fun [finl n YAOBOJ1bCTBHe•, 3a6aBa,
funeral [ '
fiu•narall n noxopož--w funny l' fnml a 3a6aBHb1h, CMeLUHOW,

furious
['Ouanasl a B36eU_reHHbrM, HeHCTOBb1Ü, 6e11_reHb1ìi furnished
['fa:nrftl a Me6JIHPOBaH-
 Hblii
finrniture ['fa:mtfa] n Me6eJ1b firther [ ' fa:ðal
a cpaw-tum. cmen. om far; a  adv 3a•reM fuse [5u•z] n aana.n, d)HTW1b fuss [fns] V cyeTHTbCH,
TIOAHHMaTb
LUYM B0Kpyr q. -Jl.
game
[germ] n urpa, pa3BJ1eqeHHe gang lgærJl n mafiKa, 6aHAa gate [gelt] n
Boporra, KwiH'1xa gather [ ' gæðal v c06npaTb(cq) generally l ' d3enaralI] adv
06bIHHO, KaK npaBHJ10, B006U1e germ [dwrn] n MHKPOÕ; cholera — MMKP06
xonepbl gesticulate [d3e' stikjulertl v xeCTH-
KYJIHPOBaTb gesture d3estJa] n xecT get (got, got) [get (got)l v
rronyqaTb, AOCTaBJIHTb; nenaTbCfl, CTaHOBHTbCB) — on (with) nasLHTb", —
rid
(OD H36aBAYTbCq•, used nPHBbIKaTb; — well Bb13110PaBJIMBaTb
ghost [goustl n npH3paK, HPHBHaeHHe giant [dsmant] n BeytMVOH gigantic [dsar'
gæntlkl a rurawrcKMii gist [d31St] n cyrb, CYIUHOCTb give (gave, given)
[gy (gerv, gyn)] v aaTb; — up BblAaTb, AOHeCTM glance IglŒnsl n B3rnqn; v
6pocaTb
B3rJIHA glasses gla:srz] n OHKH glove [glnvl n nepqaTKa go (went, gone) [gou (went, gon)] v
HATH•, mad cow-ru c YMa going l' gournl pres.p. or go: be co6upaTbcq, HaMepeBaTbcq (wno-n. còeqamb) gold [gould] n 3010To;
a 30J10T0ü golf Igolil n roJ1b(Þ (uepa) goods gudzl n TOBaPb1 governess [' gnvams] n IYBepHaHTKa
government gwanmant] n npaBHTenbCTB0 grand lgrændl a rpaHAH03HbIh,
60J1bUIOÜ, grant [grŒnt] v XaJIOBaTb, aapHTh granule l ' grænju:ll n
3ePHbIUIKO, rpaHY.rra grass [grŒs] n •rpaBa great lgreltl a BWIHKHVI greek
[gri:k] n rpeqecwii (513b1K) greet [gri:t] v TIPMBercTBOBaTb grey-haired [,grer'head] a ceaowra-
grim [gnml a MPaHHb1ñ grin lgrml n OCKUI 3y60B;
ycMC111Ka;

V YXMblJIHTbCH         groan [groun] n CTOH; v CTOHaTb
ground lgraundl n 3eMM, noqBa
(gew, gown) [grou (gru:, groun)] V
pacervt, BblPaLUMBaTb', AenaTbCH,
CTaHOBHTbCfl grumble lgrnmbl] v BopqaTb guide Igaldl n TIPOBOAHHK, NIA,
3KCKYPCOBOA guilty glltrl a BHHOBHb1ñ gun [gnnl n nyu1Ka; py,Kbe
hair [heal n
BOAOCb1 half-closed [ , ha:f 'klouzd] a 110JTY3aKpbITb1M half-drunken I
hŒf 'drnnkanl a no-

hand [hænd] v Bpyqwrb
handkerchief
[ 'hæokatJ1fl n HOCOBOñ nnaTOK handle [hændll n pyqvva
handsome ['hænsaml a KpaCHBb1ÿi hang (hung, hung) lhæl) (hAD)]
v BHceTb hang (hanged, hanged) lhæl) (hA0d)] V BemaTb happen
['hæpanl v cnyqaTbcH, npoHCXOAHTb happy ['hæpl] a cqacTJIMBb1i*
hard [hŒd] a TBePAHñ, xeCTKMW, T¶XeJ1b1iÍ, TPYJHb1ñ;
adv TB_xeno, ycnneHHO, HanP¶XeHHO', c TPYAOM hardly ['hœdlll adv eABa-eABa;
Bpqn
hardworking
[ ,  a ycepa-
Hbliá, pa60Tfl1JIHñ

hat
lhætl n uwwna hate [hert] v HeHaBHAe•rb hatless [hæths] a 6e3
rOJIOBHOrO y60pa hatred l ' hertrld] n HeHaBMCTb head [hedl n ronoBa, rnaBa
healthy helthl a 3AOPOBb1ñ heap [hip] n Kryya hear (heard,
heard) [Ima (ha:d)l v CJ1b1U_raTb', be heard of AaBaTb o ce6e 3HaTb heart
lhœtl n cepaue heavens [hevnz] n He6eca; good 0 60xe! heavy hew] a TAXW1b1ñ;
nyx.llblñ height Ihaltl n pocT help [helpl v TIOMora•rb; n norqou_lb
helpless [' helplls] a 6eC110M01_UHb1ü hero l ' hrarou] n repoñ, pl
heroes herself [ha' selfl pmn ce6e, ce6q; caMa hesitate I 'hezrtert] v
Kone6aTbcq hide (hid, hidden) [hard (hid, hldn)l v npwraTb(cq)

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ознакомительная копия -

high [Т] а высокий hill lh[ll п холм, пригорок hire
[haral v нанимать; п наем hit (hit, hit) [hIt (hlt)] v ударить; ушибить h01e
[houl] п яма, дыра hold (held, held) [hould (held)l держать, удерживать; out
протянуть, вытянуть honest [ 'omstl а честный honomry [' зпхап] а почетный
honour эпа] п честь hope [houp] п надежда; v надеяться hopelessly ['houplrslr]
adv безнадежно horrible hMbl] а ужасный hormr horal п ужас horse [hxsl п лошадь
horse-racing [' h:ys, тещ] п скачки hot [hotl а жаркий huge lhju:d3] а огромный
human ['hju:man] а человеческий humbug h,trnbng] п обманщик; хвастун
humorist ['hju:manstl п человек с чувством юмора,
шутник hunger hM)ga] п голод hunt [lnntl v охотиться hurry спешить, торопиться
husband ['h,uband] п муж hush |hAJ] int ТИШе!, тсс!
hypothesis har' рзењњ] п гипотеза, предположение hysterically [Т ' stenkalIl adv
истерично, истерически
1 ice (ањ] п лед idea (aI'dp] п мысль, идея, понятие
immediately [1' mi•drath] adv немедленно, тотчас же
impatiently [Im'peIfanthl adv с раздражением,
нетерпеливо importance [lm'po:tansl п значительность, важность important [rm ' pxtant] а важный
impossihle [п•п 'posabl] а невозмож-
ный impression [rm'prefan] п впечатление impisoned
bm'pnzndl р.р. заключенный inch [mtf] п дюйм 2,5 см) increase [т ' kri:z] У
увеличивать(ся) indeed [ln' di:d] adv в самом деле, действительно inde6nitely
[т ' defmIth] adv неограниченное время indifference [т ' dlfrans] п безразличие
infernal (m'fa:nl] а адский; — таchine адская машина (снаряд, начиненный
взрывчаткой и восппаменяющийся при помощи часового механизма) inscription [m'skrwfan] п надпись
inside saldl adv внутри, внутрь instalment [т '
sto:lmantl п очередной взнос (при рассрочке) instance ['mstans] п пример; for —
например instead sted] adv вместо этого, взамен; — ofprp вместо instinctively
[т ' stlDktwlIl adv инс-
тинкмвно intend [т ' tend] v намереваться intense
[m'tensl а интенсивный, напряженный interrupt [mta' mpt] прерывать intrigued
р.р. заинтриго-
introduce [mtra'dju:sl У представлять, знакомить
introduction  п рекомендация
invent [т 'ventl п изобретать invisible [т 'wzabll а
невидимый invite [т ' vmtl ъ' приглашать ironical [ш ' ronrkall а иронический
irony [' апаш] п ирония irritate [' mteIt] раздражать
jackal [' п шакал jaw [d33.•l п челюсть jewel dw:all п
драгоценный камены, ювелирное изделие join [dpml соединять(ся),
присоединять(ся) joke ЩзоиК] п шутка; practical — розыгрыш; шутить journey d3a:ml п
поездка, путешествие judge [d3Ad3] п судья јитр [dwnpl У прыгать јитрег1
['dympa] п прыгун, ска-
јитреР п джемпер jungle [dyujql] п джунгли just [d3Mtl
афр только что, как раз;

       именно; разг. просто
к
Кееп [ki:nl а проницательный; острый
Кеер (kept, kept) [ki.p (kept)] 1'
держать, удерживать; сохранять, соблюдать; содержать
Кеу [ki:] п улоч КШ [krll п убивать kindl [kamdl п вид,
род, тип kind2 а добрый kindly [ 'kamdlrl adv любезно kiss (Ки] целовать kitchen kItJan] п
кухня kitten [kIth] п котенок Кпее [ni:l п колено КпосК [поК] п стук; v
стучать, свалить с ног
Ютом №ew, known) [пои (пјш, поип)] v
знать, узнать knowledge n311d31 п знание
lady [' lerdll п дама; ladylike воспитанная, имеющая
вид и манеры леди lake [lelkl п озеро [ате [leun] а хромой land [lzndl п земля;
страна; приземляться, высаживаться (на сушу) landing [ ' lzndIDl п лестничная тощацка
lastl llcst] а последний, прошлый; — night вчера вечером; at — наконец last2 1'
продолжаться late [lertl а поздний; adv поздно laugh [la:f] 1' смеяться lawyer b:jal п
адвокат, юрист lay (laid, laid) [leI (lerd)l v положить,
масть lazy [Лет] а ленивый
lead (led, led) [[i•d (led)] v вести (за собой) lead
[led] п свинец leaf [li:t] п лист; страница lean (leant, leant) [li:n (lent)] v
наклоняться, прислоняться learn (learnt, 1earnt) [la:n (la:nt)] учиться; узнавать least [li•stl а
превосх. ст. от little; at — по крайней мере leather le0a] п кожа; а кожаный leave
(lei, 1еП) [li-v (leR)] уходить, покидать, оставлять; п отпуск; — alone
осташшть в покое 1ecturer lektfara] п лектор left Дет а левый; adv налево, сле-
leg [legl п
нога (от бедра до ступни)

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03HaK0MwreAbHa¶ Koru-IA

legal ['li:gall a H)pHAHqecKMñ let (let, let)
[let (let)] v 1103BOJIHTb, pa3pe1_uaTb (e noeenumenbH0M 8b1pa*aem npuaqazueHue, npu»ca3aHue);
out Bbl-
nyCKaTb letter ['letal n 6yoa; 11HCbMO liar lla10] n JlryH lick [11k] v
06JIH3b1BaTb

lie (lay,
Iain) [1m (ler, lern)] v
lifeboat ['lalfbout] n cnaca-reJ1bHafl
UI-TIE011Ka light (lit, lit) [latt (lit)] v 3ŒKHraTb•, a
 CBeTJ1b1ii like llarkl a HOXOXHVI, non06Hb1M; adv noa06H0, KaK; look — 6b1Tb
, Bblrnq,aerrb KaK limp [limpl a MAI'KHñ,
cna6bI" lined [lamd] a lip [IIP] n ry6a liquor ['likal n cr1MIJTH0ñ HarlHT0K listen
Illsnl v cnyu:a-rb, upøcnymu-
BaTbCH lock Ilokl v 3anupaTb lonely I lounll] a nycTbIHHb1Vi,
OAHHOKMM look [Iuk] v CMOTPeTb, BblrJ1flaeTb; about OFJIHAb1BaTbCH no ceropoHah';
aner 3a60THTbCq — around ornqae-rbcg; for MCKaTb', — in 3arJ1¶HYTb, 3aiiTH; —
like HOXOAHTb lose (lost, lost) llu:z (lost)] v Tepgn,•, — one's temper
paccepAHTbcq, pa303JIHTbCB loss [IOS] n no•repq lot [lotl n MHOXeCTBO a of
MHOro, Macca loud [laud] a rpOMKHìÍ love [Inv] a JlK)60Bb; v
JH06HTb; be in
- 6b1Tb WIK)6neHHb1M lovely ['bwlll a npeKpacHblM,
BOCXH-
TWreJ1bHb1M low
[Iou] a HH3KHiä•,
luck [IAk] n yaaqa luncheon [ ' IAntJan] n 3am•paK
(06b1'iHO $UUŒ1bHb1Ù)
ma'am
[mæml (CORP. om madam) n cyuaPb1Hfl, rocnoxa mad [mæd] a
cyMacmeAIHHii•, go — CXOAHTb C YMa magic l' mæd31k] n MOMB, B011me6cTBo•,
a BOJ1me6Hb1ñ, KOJIAOBCKOM, 3aKOJUOBaHHb1Vf maid (meld] n CJIYXaHKa main
[mem] a rJHBHb1ñ mainland I 'memland] n MaTePHK make (made, made) [melk
(merd)l v aeJ1a•rv, — fun (of) BblCMeHBaTb;  — one's way npowuaAblBaTb ce6e
nopory; sure ynocT0BepHTbcw,  up TIPMAYMb1BaTb Malay Ima'lerl n Manaeu manner l ' mæno] n
MaHepa; 110BeneHHe mark Ima•kl v OTNteqaTb', n OTMeTKa; cneA
marriage l'
mænd31 n XeHHTb6a, 3aMYXeCTBO, 6paK marry I'mærll v 3aMyx, xe-
HMTbCR match [mætf] n CITHAVva material [ma' tlanal] n MamepuaJ1
matter l' mæta] n neno; what is the — B qeM aeno? it does not — HeB.aXHO
maybe [' merbll adv MOXeT 6b1Tb mean (meant, meant) [mi:n (ment)l
V 3HaHHTb, 03HaqaTb; MMeTb B BHAY, XO•reTb CKa3aTb means [mi:nsl n
CPeACTBO, cnoc06; by — of 110M011M meanwhile ['mi:nwarl] adv •rew Bpe-
Mee-1eM, MexAY' reM meat [mi:t] n MACO medicine I medsan] n
.neKaPCTBO
meet (met,
met) Imi:t (met)l v BCTpeqaTb(cH) member ['membal n mention ['menfanl v yr10MHHaTb•,
don't — it He CTOHT, rroxa-nyÿcra (8 omeem Ha õqaeoòapHocmb)
messenger mesand3õ] n HOCbIJ1b-
Hblñ, Kypbep middle [midll n cepeAHHa; in the nocepeAHHe mile [marl] n MHJIH 1609
M)
mind [mamdl
v B03paxaTb', n YM, paccYA0K; change one's — nepeIlYMaTb; concentrate one's
coCPeAOTOHHTbCq; make up one's — npMHHMaTb peuœHMe mirror l ' nura] n
3epKærro miserable [ ' mrzarabll a HecqaCTHb1ü miss [rms] v
TIP01TYCTHTb; He noc-
mission
[mlJnl n MHCCHH missionary [ • rmJananl n MHCCHOHCP mistake (mistook, mistaken) [rms'
terk (rms' tuk, rms' telkn)l v no 0111HÕKe INPHHBTb 3a KOFO-JI. apyroro;
n OUIH6Ka; be mistaken OLUH6HTbC¶ mistress [ ' rmstrrsl n x03BñKa
mock Imok] v HacMexaTbcq money num] n monkey [ 'mA1)k11 n 06e3bflHa
monstrous l ' monstrasl a qyAOBHLUHbrñ moon [mum] n JlYHa moral
['moral] a A06poaeTeJ1bHb1ü, BblCOKOHPaBCTBeHHbLñ most (OD
60J1bWMHCTBO; — of all 60J1b111e Bcero mostly moustlll adv 60J1bmen qacB 6011bLIJHHCTBe motionless l '
moufanhsl a Henon-
BHXHb1h
mountain mauntrnl n ropa mourning [ ' ma•nrnl n Tpayp mouse [mausl n Mb[U1b
moustache [ma' stŒJl n ycbl mouth [mau61 n pm; ycTbe peKJt move [mu:v] v
ABMraTb(cq), nepeABHraTb(CB)
Mr. [ '
rmstal (COKP. om mister) n MHC-
rep, rocr10AHH
Mrs. rmsrz] (COKP. om mistress ['rmstnsl) n MHCCMC,
rocnoxa (cmaeumcH nepeÒ Øam¿aueÙ 3ayœHU4UHb1) multiply I '
mnltlplal] v Pa3MHOXaTb-
murderer
ma:dara] n y6Hhua mysterious [nus ' tranasl a TMHCTBeHHbM,
HellOCTHXHMb1iá mystery mrstanl n mañHa, ceKperr
narrow [
'nærou] a Y3KHM native l' nertrv] n ry3eMeu natural nætJaraIl a
ec•reCTBeHHb1ñ, npup0AHb1M naturalist ['nætfarahst] n
eCTeCTBOMC11b1TaTeJ1b nature neitfa] n fiarypa, npHpoAa necessary ['neslsan] a
HeOÕXOnw-
Mblñ, HY'XHb1M neck [nekl n meg necklace [ ' nekhs] n
oxepeJ1be need [ni:dl v Hyx,uarbcg neglect 1m' glektl v rrpeHe6peraTb neighbour
nerba] n cocežl nervous ['na:vas] a HepBHbIii; be — BOJIHOBaTbCq next [nekst] a cneayouwü,
coceAHMñ; adv nice [naiS] a MW1b[ñ, cnaBHb1ñ, xopouruñ, HPHATHb1ü
noble [noubl] a 6naFOPOAHb1ñ nod Inod] v KHBaTb (eonoeoü) noise
[nmzl n lt1YM noiseless l ' norzllsl a 6eCUIYMHb1È1

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none [nnn] pron HHKTO, HH OAHH nonsense [ ' nonsans] n
6eCCMb1CJMUa , qenyxa, epyHAa nose Inouzl n HOC note [noutl n 3aflHcKa,
rlMCbMo; 3aMe-TKa, 3anMCb nothing l ' nn9H)l pron HHHTO, HHgero           notice nouns] v 3aMeqaTb notion I '
nouJanl n npeAcraW1eHMe number ['mmba] n HOMep, qHCJIO, KOJIHqeCTBO', a (OD
MHOI'O nurse Inasl n HHHY, v yxaxMBaTb 3a
60JIbHb1M
O
object l' obd31ktl n npeAMe•r oblige la' blaid31 v
06H3b1BaTb; be obliged 6b1Tb 06q3aHHb1M occasion [a' ke13an] n cnyqah, B03MOXHOCTb occur [a' ka:] v cnyqarr,cq,
npoprcxoAHTb; HPHXOAHTb B roJ10BY odd loci] a CTPaHHb1iá offend [a' fendl v 06HXaTb, OCKOP-
6JfflTb
offer I
'ofal v npewloxwrb once [wtxns] adv OAHaXAbr; at — HeMezueHHO opinion la'pmjanl n MHeHHe
opposite [ ' opazlt] adv HarlPOTHB order o:da] n 3aKa3; rrpHKa3', nopaAOK, in —
(to) Toro HT06b1 ordinary [ o:dnnl a 06b1KHOBeHHb1ñ, npocToü         oriental [ , an' entl] a
BOCTOHHHÜ ouglt (to) [o:tl v cJ1eayeT, HYXHO (MOenaeon, ewpa*amguü
MOPŒ1bHOe
611U3KUÜ no 3HaqeH1."0 K should) outbreak [ ' autbrerk] n CPb1B
(MOPW1bHblù, ncuxuqecxuù) outer l' autal a Hapy»a-lblii, BHe1_Ln-Mii
03HaK0MwreAbHa¶ outside l ' aut'smdl adv
cHapyxn;        personally [ ' pa:sanalll adv JIH¼HO; 'ITO
Hapyxy Kacaercq MeHA overcharge l' ouvatJa:d31 n CJIHIIIKOM phenomena
[fi'nommal n MH. q. om BNCOKaq LCHa  phenomenon [fl' normnanl HBovercoat
[' ouvakoutl n naytbT0neHHe overhear l, ouva' hi'] v HOLCJIYUIH- piano [ ' pjænou] n nnaHHH0
BaTb    pick up [prkl v non6HpaTb, 110AHHown lounl v BJ1aueTb,
06J1auaTb", a  MaTb (c nony, 3ewau)  C06CTBeHHb1A piece Ipi:sl n KY'COK owner ouna] n BJ1aAeneu pile Ipafll n
Kyqa, rpyaa pit [Plt] n yrny6neHHe, BnaAHHa pity [ ' prtll n XUIOCTb, aocazw, v
xa-
package I '
pæk1d3] n naKe•r, CBePTOK neTb pain [pernl n 6011b plant [plŒntl v
caxaTb, BblCaXHBaTb pair [pea] n napaplay [plell n rlbeca pansy l'
pænm] n amOTHHb1 ['Jia3KM pleased [pli:zdl a AOBOJ1bHb1ü
(geemox) pleasure ['plesa] n YAOBOJ1bCTBue parang l' pæræol n
AJIHHHbIÌi Manah- plenty [ ' plentl] n Macca
CK_Hñ KHHXWI pocket pokit] n
KapMaH parcel [pa:sl] n cBepTOK poetic Ipou'etlk] a r103TMt1Hbrÿi parlour
['pŒla] n rocTHHag poetry l ' pouatn] n 1103310 particle I 'pa.•trkll n
qacTHua, KPY- point [pornt] v YKa3b1BaTb, HanpaBnuua         JIflTb; n rlYHKT',
strong CJU1bHaH party [ ' patll n npHeM rocreh; Beqep, CTOPOHa
BeqepHHKa  poison [polznl n AX, v 0TpaBJIBTb pass [pcs] v
npoMTH, nepehTH; npo-  politely [pa' laitll] adv BeXJIHBO
HCXOLHTb  population [,popju'lerJnl n Hacenepatch
[pætJl n He60J1bu.roÜ yqacroK     Hue
3eMJIW,pose Ipouz] n no'3a passenger [ 'pæsmdsal n naccaxMp possible [
'posabll a B03MOXHb1M pathetic [pa' 9et1kl a TporareJ1bHb1ü potatoes [pa'
teltouzl n KapT*J1b patience ['pelJans] n TepneHHe pound [paund] n (ÞYHT
CTePJMH1'OB
pause
[po:z] n nay3a•, v OCTaHOBHTb- (=20 pour [pa] v JIHTb, pa3JIHBaTb
pavement [ ' pewmant] n Tporryap precious I ' preJas] a aparoueHHb1ñ pay
(paid, paid) [per (peld)] v rrna- prefer [pn' fa:] v npeanoqmaTb
 THTb; n XUIOBaHbe                              preparation
t,prepa'reúan] n npe-
pearl
[pa:ll n xewyr      naparr peep [pi•pl V CMOTPCTb CKB03b LUeJ1b presently [ ' preznthl adv BCKope
peg [peg] n Bema-wa press [pres] v HOKHMaTb perfectly l' pa:fikthl adv
COBepuœHH0 pretend Ipn'tendl v npHTBOPHTbcq, perhaps [pa' hæpsl adv
B03MOXH0 AenaTb BHA permission [pa' mlJnl n popeu_reHHe pretty prltl] a
MHJIOBHAHHM person I ' pa•snl n qeJIOB•eK, oc06a prevent [pn'vent] v
npeA0TBpauaTb prick [prrkl v KOJIOTV, n YKOJI priest [pri:st] n CBqueHHHK
private ['pramtl a gacrrHbm, JIHH-
probable ['probabl] a
BeP0flTHHñ, B03MOXHb1Ü profit I 'profitl n Bbrroaa, rlPH6b1JIV, v
H3BJ1eKaTb Bblroay
promise
promrs] v 06euIaTb; n 06erum-me proof (pru:tl n rpaHKa prospect ['prospakt] n nepcneKTHBa,
Hauex,ua protect [pra'tekt] v prodd [praudl a ropAHñ•, be —
(OD ropLHTbCH prove (pruvl v 110Ka3bIBaTb psychic salklk] a [ICHXHHeCKHii pull
[pull v aepraTb, THHYTb•, BblTåCKHBaTb, OTPb1BaTb punish [ 'pnmJl v
Hava3b1Barv, ŒroMCTHTb, YHMHTOXHTb puppy ['PAPII n ueHOK purple [pa:pll a
(þHOneTOBb1Ü
pursuer [pa' sju:a] n npecneA0Ba•reJ1b push [pun v
TO]1KaTb put (put, put) [put (put)l v VUIaCTb; — on HaueBaTb', — Off OTKJIU1b1BaTb; — out BblCOBb1BaTb, BblTHHYTb puzzle
[pull v CTOMTb B TYTMK, 03aaaqHBaTb
quarrel
['kworall n ccopa quay [ki:] n MOJI, npHHW1; Ha5epex-
Haq queer [kWla] a crrpaHHb1ä quietly t' kwalatll] adv
cnoK0hH0, THXO
race [rers] v WfflTbCfl;
n CKaqva•f rage Ireld31 n qpoç•rb rail [relll n nepn,qa

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ознакомительная копия

raise [rerzl v поднять, приподнять
rascal [ ' ra:skal] п мошенник rather ['rcda] adv довольно reach [ri:tJ] достигать
ready [ ' redr] а готовый real lnal] а действительный, настоящий r•eally [ '
па11] adv действительно reason [rtzn] п причина receive (п' si:vl v получать
receiver [п ' si:val п укрыватель краденогО; телефонная трубка recital sartal]
п рассказ (устный) recognise l'rekagnarz] 1' узнавать, признавать, распознавать
reef [ri:fl п риф, подводная скала reference 1' refrans] п отзыв, харак-
теристика renection [п ' Пемап] п отражение reformed
[11' fxmdl р.р. от reform испарившийся refuse [п'ђи.71 v отказывать(ся)
regiment [ ' redymantl п полк remain [п'тет] v оставаться remark [п'та:К1 п
замечание, вы-
сказывание remember [п'тетЬа] помнить, вспоминать reply
[rr' pla1] v отвечать; п ответ reproach [п'ргоиШ упрекать; п упрек reservoir
rezavwcr] п водоём, резервуар resign [п ' zam] v уходить в отстав»,'
respectahle [п ' spektabl] а порядочный responsible [rl'sponsabl] а
ответственный; be — for отвечать за что-либо
(the) restl [_rest] п остаток, остальное; rest2
отдыхать; лежать; останавливаться (на ком-либо); п отдых restless [ ' resthsl а
беспокойный retire [T1'tma] уходить в Отставку return возвращаться; п
возвращение rich [пш а богатый rid [rrdl v избавлять; get of отде-
      лываться, избавляться от
Ме (rode, ridden) [rard (roud, rrdn)l v ехать верхом
riddle [пМ] п загадка right |ra1t] а правильный, правый; п право rise (rose, risen) [гаи (rouz, rrzn)l подниматься river [ ' rwal п река road
[roudl п дорога roar [ro:l Р орать гоп [roul] v катить(ся); свертывать-
(ся) готапсе [ra' mans] п романтика root [ru:t] п
корень горе [roupl п веревка, канат rough [ТАП а грубый; неровный round [raundl
а круглый; adv вокруг routine п заведенный по-
рядок r•ude [ru:d] а грубый ruin [гит] п гибель гип
(гап, гип) (тап, ГАП)] п бежать; — а risk рисковать гиф 1 ил v бросаться rustle [r,xsl] п шелест
S
sad [sad] а печальный, грустный safe [self] а
безопасный; надеж-

safely l'seIf111 adv благополучно; надежно salary
salan] п жалованье satisfaction [ , satlS' fNfan] п удоњлетворение save [servl
спасти; откладывать
(Деньги)
savings [ ' Sewmz] п сбережения
sawdust [ ' ss.dnstl п опилки scandalised skzndalaud] а шоки рованный, смущенный scheme [ski:ml п
схема, план, программа science [ ' saransl п наука scientific |saran' tlflkl а научный,
ученый scientist sarantISt] п ученый scholarship [' sk3lajpl п стипендия scom
[sko:n] п презрение, насмеш-
scream [skri:ml п крик, визг; •v'
кричать screw п болт, гайка; v завин чивать scrub [sknbl мыть, скрести
scume |skRt11 п борьба, драка sea |si•] п море sealed [si:ldl р.р. от seal
запечатанный secret ['si:krrtl п тайна; Кеер — держать в тайне see (saw, seen)
[si: (о., si•n)] У ви-

деть seem [si:ml v казаться seize [si•z1 схватить selfsh [ '
self1J] а эгоистичный self-starter self sta:tal п тех. автоматическийвавод,
стартер sell (sold, sold) [sel (sould)l v продавать sentence ['sentans] п
приговор; предложение, фраза separate sepnt] а отдельный; v
[' separert] разлучать(ся) serious ['
мапх] а серьезный servant sa:vantl п слуга service [' sa:wsl п услуга severely
[sl'v№h] adv жестоко shake (shook, shaken) [Jelk, (ЛИК 'fe:kan)] утрясти(сь); дрожать,
качать(ся); потрясать
 а шаткий, нетвер-
sharp [Ja:pl а острый, резкий; adv
ровно, точно
shave [few] v бриться sheet Wl.•t] п лист (бумаги) shine (shone, shone) [јат (foun)l сиять, блестеть, светить(ся) ship [Гр]
п корабль, судно shiver [fwa] v дрожать shock ФК] шокировать shoe п башмак
shoot (shot, shot) lJLkt 03t)l стрелять shore [f3.•l п берег should (моДальный
глаг., выражающий Долженствование)
shoulder ['fouldal п плечо shout [faut] v кричать show
(showed, shown) тои Uoud foun)l v показывать shrink (shrank, shrunk) |јпоК (frcok, јГАЂК)] v
отпрянуть; уклоняться shrug v пожимать (паечами) shudder ['fAd3] вздрагивать,
содрогаться side |saldl п сторона; борт парохода; а боковой sigh [sar] v вздыхать; п
вздох sign [saml v подписывать(ся) silence sa№nsl п молчание silk 1Sllkl п шелк

simple [srmpl] а простой since [sms] adv со времени, с
тех пор

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sing (sang, sung) [SID (scn, SAD)] петь sir п сэр, сударь sitting-room 1'
 п общая комната в квартире, гостиная skirt [ska:t] п юбка sky [skal] п
небо
slam
Islæml v xnonaTb, 3axJ10flb1-
BaTb sleepy I 'sli:prl a COHHb1Ü
slide [slald] n npeAMeTHoe creKJ10
(MlŒpoczona) slight [slart] a JrerKMM, cyra6b1ñ
slip [shpl v CK011b3HTb; npocK0J1b-
       3HYTb; 110AKJ1aŒb1BaTb
slipper ['shpa] n KOMHaTHaq
slow [sloul a MewleHHb1ii smell (smelt, smelt) [smel (smelt)l Y HH)XaTb, HYBCTBOBaTb 3anax; smile
Ismafll n YJ1b16Ka; v YJIb16aTb-
smoke
['smoukl v KYPHTb; n snake [snežkl n 3Meq snatch IsnætJl v CXBaTHTb snub [snnb] a
KYPHOCb1ü, B3aepHY-
Tbiii (o Hoce) soap [soup] n MbUIO
sob [sobl v PbuaTb sober ['souba] a rpe3Bb1ñ society [sa ' salatl] n
06LUecTBO sock [sok] n HOCOK soft (soft] a THXMÜ; sole [soul] n nonouma solicitor
(sa'IIS1tal n 110BepeHHb1M B  aenax solve Isolv] v pa.3pemaTb (npoónuy) son-in-law ' la:} n
3RTb sound [saundl n 3Byx; v 3ByqaTb source [so:s] n HCTO¼HHK sparrow
['spæroul n Bop06eñ spend (spent, spent) [spend (spent)]
V rpaTHTb spike [spalk] n oc•rpHe•,
UIHII splash [splæJ] n BC11JIeCK sporting cn0PTHBHb1M; npeanpHHMHHBb1ìi
sportsgrounds I'spo:ts' graundz] n
cnopTHBHaq W101-uaAKa spot [spot] n Mecm; TIRTHO spread
[spred] v PaCCTW1aTb 03HaK0M1-rreAbHa¶ spurt [spa:tl v 6HTb c-rpyëü square Iskwea] a KBaAPaTHbIh stairs
[steaz] n neCTHM11a star [stŒl n 3Be3Aa stare [steal v CMOTPCTb nPHCTaJ1bHO,
TaPa111HTb rJ1a3a state [stertl n
COCTOHHMe
statesman ['stertsmanl n rocyaapcTBeHHbrÿ nem•eJIb
[stell v OCTaBaTbCS1 steady stedl] a ytToüHHBb1ii, TBep-
steal
(stole, stolen) [sti:l (stoul, stoul(a)n)] v steamship [ ' sti:mfip] n napoxoa
step [stepl v IllaraTb', n mar; CTYneHbKa steward [stjuadl n O(bH11HaHT (Ha
napoxoðe)
stick
[stlkl n naJIKa still [std] adv BCe euc•, el-ue; a THXMÜ,
6eC11_1YMHb1M•, HenOABHXHNü•, 6e3BeTpeHHNñ stone
Istounl n KapaeHb stony [stounll a XOJ10AHb1ñ, HenoABHXHb1fi straight
[strert] a npHMOM; adv npgMO strain [streml v HanpqraTb strange [stremd3] a
CTPaUIHbIM; HeM3BecTHHÜ stranger. ['stretnd3a] n He3HaKOMeU; HOBHHOK
strawberry [ ' stm:banl n •3eWIHHMKa,
KJIY6HHKa stream [stri:m] n pyqeü strength [stre1J9] n CHJ1a stretch [stretJ] v TAI--ryrb,
rrporgruBarb(cq) strike (struck, struck) [straik (strnk)] v yaapHTb, nopa3HTb string
[still)] n 6eqeBKa, u.1HYPOK;
HHTKa (6yc) stroke [stroukl n yaap
struggle
[strngl] n 60pb6a; v 60POTb-
cg  l' stnfi] v stupid ['stjuprd] a subject ['snbd31ktl n •rervla, npeAMe•r pa3r0Bopa; npeAMe•r suburbs ['snba:bz] n npHropoA,
0KpaHHb1 successful [sak' sesfal] a yaaHHb1ü,

ycne1_11Hb1ñ
such [Mtn a TaKOñ
suck Isnkl v
COCaTb suddenly I'sndnlll adv BApyr, BHe-
3ar1H0

suffer snfal
v crrpauaTb
xeHHe•, npeL.noxeHHe suicide ['sju•lsaldl n caMoy6HäCTBo•,
caMoy6Hñua suit (sju•t] n KOCTO' suitcase ['sju:tkelsl n gen.roaaH sum
[SAml n cyMMa sunny [ 's,xnrl a COJIHeqHNiá supply [sa'plar] v CHa6XaTb;
n CHa6xeHHe; 3anac suppose [so' pouz] v npeanonaraTb

sure [Jua] a BePHb1ü, Õe30LMH60qHblü;
be — 6b1Tb YBePeHHb1M; make — y6eAMTbC¶, YAocT0BepHTbcq surprise Isa' pralZ] v
YAHBJIWTb surround [so' raund] v OKPyxaTb suspect [so' spekt] v 1101103peBaTb
suspicious [sas' Plfasl a noA03pwreJ1b-
Hb[ü; be non03peBaTb swallow swoloul v rJIOTaTb sway [swerl v
KaqaTbCH svear (sweal v pyraTbcq; KMICTbCfl
sweat [swetl n 110T sweet [swi:t] a cJ1aAKHñ,
flPHHTHbM;

sword Isy.dl
n ca6nq sympathy srmpa911 n coqyBCTBHe, cocTpaaaHHe
talented ['tælantld] a •raJ1aHTJIMBb1ìi taste [telstl n BKYC
tea [ti:l
n gah tearl (tore, torn) (tea (to:, ton)l v PBa•Tb tear2 ltla] n cae3a temper ['tempol n HpaB, HacTpoeHHe;
lose one's — paccepAHTbcg, Pa303JIHTbCH terrible ['terabl] a yrxacHb1ü
terror I 'teral n yxac theory n reopHB thief [9i•fl n BOPi pl thieves 16i:vzl
thin [9m] a TOHKHiá think (thought, thought) [910k (63t)l
V ,WMaTb though [ðou] cj "OTA, HecMOTPH Ha; as KaK 6yxro 6b1 thought
[90:tl n Mb1CJTb thoughtfully ['90:tfa11] adv 3aayMHHBO

XBaTb1BaK)LUHh throat [Brout] n ropJ10 throw (threw, thrown)
[thou (Gru:,
eroun)] v 6pocaTb tiptoe ['tiptou] Ha 11b1noqKax (mx. on tie Ital] v 11PHBB3b1BaTb tired
[tarad] a ycra-llblä; be YCTaTb together [t" gaðal adv BMecTe
tonight [ta'naltl adv ceroL1--1¶ BegePOM top [top] n Bepxymva, BepWHHa; on —
cBepxy touch ltAtJl v -rpora•rb, KaCaTbCfl towards [ta'wo:dzl prp no HanpaBneHMK)
trace [trelsJ n cnea travel ['træval] v nyremecTBOB-aTb tray [trel]
n tremble [trembll v apoxa•rb tremendous [tri' mendasl a CTpawHblii,
HOTPflCaK)LUHñ

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03HaK0MwreAbHa¶

 [trrk] n TPK)K; play a ctArpaTb
trigger
[ ' trrgo] n KPK)qOK, CHYCKOBOM KPK)HOK triumph ['traramfl n rrpHYM(Þ,
TOPXeCTBO tropics ['tropiks] n -rpor1HKH trouble [trnbll n 6eC110KOMCTBO,
HerlPHHTHOCTb; V 6ecn0KOHTb true [tru:] a BePHb1ñ, 11PaBWIbHb1ñ truth (true] n npaBAa truthful [ 4tru:9fall a
npaBAHBb1ñ try [tran v nwraTbcg, c-rapaTbcw,
[IP060BaTb tube [tju:bl n rpy6a, Tpy6Ka turn [ta:n] v  craHOBHTbCW, caenarbcq; — pale
no6J1eAHeTb•, out OKa3aTbCq; over rrepeBepHYTb•, n ogepeAb twist [twrstl v Kpy-rwrb tvopence ['tApansl
n ABa neHca
unexpected [ , Amk' spektldl a HeOXMaaHHb1ñ unfortunate [An '
fo.tJamtl a Heyuat.fflblñ
uniform
['ju:mfo:m] n d)0PMeHHag oaexua, YHM(þopMa unfortunately IAn'fo:tJamtII]
adv K

coxæqeHMžo unknown [nn '
noun] a HeM3BeCTHbrh unÞant [m'pleznt] a
until
[an 'fill pm ao; AO unusual [An'juzuall a He06b1HHb1ñ

HO upset (upset, upset) [Ap'setl v pacCTPaHBaTb; be —
6b1Tb paccrpoeHHbtM upward I' Apwadl adv BBepx use Iju:sl n [1011b3:a; Y [u:z] ynorpe6Jl¶Tb,
HCffOJ1b30BaTb; used to 06bHHO, 6b1BUIO useless juslrs] a
6ecr10Jœ3Hb1iá

vain [vern] a HanpacHb1ii; in —
HanpacH0 valuable ['væljuabll a UeHHbIh value I'vælju:l n ueHa•, v
OUeHMBaTb vanish ['væmJl v HCqe3aTb victory I 'uktan] n n06eaa view
[vju:] n B3E1u, TOHKa 3peHJIH visitor ['vmta] n  roc-Tb voice Ivmsl n ronoc voyage
[volld31 n nyrewecTBHe
waist
[welstl n wait [welt] v OXMAaTb waiter ['weltal n wake (up) (woke, waked) [welk (wouk,
welkt)l V npocb11HTbcq; 6YAHTb war lwo:l n BOMHa
warmly I 'wo:mlll adv Tenno yarn [wo:n] v npeuyllpexaa-rb, npe-
Aoc•reperaTb wash [woJl v Mb1Tb waste [werstl v TPaTHTb (epeMH)•,
pacTOqaTb waste paper basket n KOP3HHKa
HeHY'XHb1X 6YMar watch [wo:tf] v HaÕmuaTb, c:reAHTb
watchful ( 'wo:tral] a HacTOPO*CHHHii water l'wo:ta] n Boaa; v nOJIHBaTb
watering-can ' kæn] n neviKa wave [werv] v Ma.xaTb (pycoù) way [wen n rtYTb', cpeACTB0, cnoc06,
MaHepa weak
[wi•kl a cna6br" weapon wepnl n opyxue wear (wore, worn) [wea (wo:, wo:n)]
v
OueBaTb(CH),
6b1Tb OaeTb1M', HO-
CHTb (oòe*òy) weeds [wi:dzl n
BAOBH" •rpayp, Kpen well [well n KOJIOaeU whether ['weða] cj JIM while [wafll adv B TO BpeMH Kaw, for
a
— HeKOTOPOe BpeMH

whiskers I 'wrskazl n 6aKeH6apzuA

wonderful
  ['wxndafall a YAHBHTeJ1b-

whisper I ' wlspa] v IllernaTb•, n menorr

Hblii

whist [WIStl n BHCT (Kapmow-taB ue-

wood
  lwud] n AepeB0 (Mamepum)•,

pa)

nec

whistle [WISI] n CBhCT; V CBHCreTb

world Iwa:ldl n MHP, CBe•r

whole [houl] a ueJ1b1ñ, Becb

worry [ ' wnnl v 6eCfl0KOMTbCA,
  BOYI-

wicked ['wlkadl a 3J10ii, HcnopqeH-

HOBaTbCfl

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worth [wa:91 a croqu1Hñ

wide [ward] a IMHPOKVth

wound [wund] n paHa•, v PaHHTb

widow ['wldoul n BAOBa

wrap [ræp] v 3aBePTb1BaTb

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paTb

yard [ja:d] n

wish [wd] v xenaTb•, n xenaHMe

yellow l'jeloul a xeJTTb1iÍ

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youth Iju6] n MOJIOAOCTb

wonder ['wmdal v yanw1BTbcq,
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Bannister ['bæmstal

Heywood [ 'herwud]

Basil bænll

Hilton Soames ['hlltan 'soumz]

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Hopson hopsanl

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Jeremiah [ , d3en' maral

Borcelli ['botfelr]

Joan [ ' d30un]

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Boston Quay ['bostan 'ki:]

Kuala Solor ('kwa:la 'soula]

Brown [braunl

Laura ['lo:ra]

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I_nwell ['loual]

Deauville [dou 'vi:l] KY-

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Philippines ['fillpi:nzl OWIHJTTIMHC-

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Queenstown Harbour ['kwi:nztaun

St.
  Luke sernt 'Ijukl cByroM JIYKa

' ha:bal raBaHb

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Rupert Grant ['rupat ' gra:ntl

Tanner's Court ['tænaz 'ko:t]

Sherlock Holmes ['Ja:lak hournz]

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Simpson ['srmpsanl

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Contents
The Adventure of the Three Students — A. Conan Doyle...3
Exercises16
That Little Square Box — A. Conan Doyle Exercises
      Exercises                                                                                ...52
The Blast of the Book — G. Chesterton
. . .. . .. . .                           .59
        Exercises ...v...                                                                                .70

The Tremendous Adventure of Major Brown — G. Chesterton. ..83
Exercises ..94
A
String of Beads— S. Maugham         .                                   . 103
Exercises.....................1
10
Before the Party — S. Maugham                                                   1
15
        Exercises ................. —                                                         130
Vocabulary136
             Cr1HCOK C06CTBeHHb1X HMeH reorpa(þMqecKMX
Ha3BaHMÜ .                157

alt: HaKOMwrreAb1--ra¶ Konuq - fren lish

alt: HaK0MwreAbHa¶ "Yes, " said Mr

alt: The first floor, " began Soames, "is occupied by a fine student and athlete, he plays cricket for the college3 and is a prize-winner for…

alt: Why should a perfectly honest man?

alt: HaK0MwreAbHa¶ At eight in the morning

alt: All right, then that will do.

alt: Greek text for the examination

alt: I have a letter here which I wrote to you early this morn ing after a restless night

alt: Answer the following questions

alt: Really, Mr. Holmes," answered

alt: If anyone has to himself in this room, he must do it here — the bed is too low

alt: HaK0MwreAb1--1a¶ Suddenly there was a shout from the bridge, and two men ap peared, running very quickly down the quay

alt: H pauH gero KOMY-TO nompe60Ba.nocb 6bI

alt: When it was time to have dinner,

alt: Exercises Comprehension Check

alt: I ) Who is the narrator? 2)

alt: I Not so very much to see aner all! —

alt: Drive me up the road," she said to the cabman, "and see if we can find a gentleman running about in a velveteen coat and…

alt: Exercises Comprehension

alt: I ) Who was a young man visiting? 2)

alt: A pale face (pale-faced); deep grey eyes; a nervous manner; a slight smile; one's eyes shine; to be eccentric; one's face is a mask of…

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