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Edith Nesbit
The nchanted
Castle

Elementary
Английский
клуб
Эдит Несбы
Заколдованный
ЗАМОК
АДаптация текста, преДисловие,
комментарий, упражнения и словарь Е. В. Угаровой
москш
КАЙРИС ПРЕСС
2008
удк 811.111(075)

ББК 81.2Англ-9З
Н55
Серия «Анашйский клуб» включает книги и учебные пособия,
рассчитанные на пять этапов изучения английского языка: Elementary (для
начинающих), Ртеlntermediate (для продолжающих первого уровня), lntermediate
(для продолжающих второго уровня), Upper Intermediate (для продолжающих
третьего уровня) и Advanced (шля совершенствующихся).
Серийное
оформление А. М. Драгового
Несбит, Э.
Н 55 Заколдованный замок / Эдит
Несбит; адаптация текста, предисловие, коммент., упражнения, словарь Е. В.
Угаровой. — М.: Айрис-пресс, 2008. — 128 с.: ил. — (Английский клуб). —
(Домашнее чтение).
ISBN
978-5-81124944-4
Данная книга предстањляет собой
адаптацию повести английской писательницы Эдит Несбит (1858—1924)
«Заколдованный замок». Эта книга, написанная в жанре фэнтези, рассказывает об
удивительных приключениях обычных школьников, в распоряжении которых оказалось
волшебное кольцо. Книга написана неверятно легким языком и держит в напряжении
читателя на протяжении всего повествования.
После каждой главы приводится перевод новых слов на
русский язык, а также упражнения, напрањленные на проверку понимания текста,
отработку лексики и тамматических конструкций, развитие устной речи. Текст
книги сопровождается постраничным комментарием.
Пособие предназначено учащимся школ, гимназий, лицеев,
а также широкому круту лиц, изучающих английский язык самостоятельно.
Предисловие
Дорогие ребята!
Мы предлагаем вашему
вниманию новую книгу для чтения из серии «Английский клуб» — повесть английской
писательницы Эдит Несбит «Заколдованный замок». Книги Эдит Несбит еще мало
известны у нас, но невероятно популярны в Англии. «Заколдованный замок» — это
одно из лучших произведений в жанре фэнтези, написанных для детей. В нем
рассказывается о приключениях четырех английских школьников во время детских
каникул. Главными героями повести являются обычные дети, которым пришлось
встретиться с волшебством, столкнуться с самыми невероятными персонажами и
пережить немало страшных минут. Автор описывает произошедшие с ними
удивительные события с большой симпатией и теплым юмором.
Мы надеемся, что чтение
этой книги будет для вас не только интересным, но и полезным. Мы советуем
пользоваться словариком и внимательно изучать комментарии, помещенные после
каждой главы. Специально подобранные упражнения помогут вам выучить новые
английские слова и выражения и научиться правильно употреблять их в речи.

ББК 81.2Антл-9З ДК 811.111(075)
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  оформление, адаптация, предисловие, комментарий,
1SBN 978-5-8112-2944-4                             упражнения, словарь,
  2007

Желаем
успеха!

Part 1
There were three of them — Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen.
Jerry's name was Gerald, and Jimmy's name was James; and Kathleen was never
called by her name at all, but Cathy, or Puss Catl, when her brothers were
pleased with her, and Scratch Cat2 when they were not pleased. And they were at
school in a little town in the West of England — the boys at one school, and
the girl at another. They saw each other on Saturdays and Sundays at the house
of a kind lady; but it was one of those important houses where it is impossible
to play. So they lookedforward to the holidays, when they would all go home.
Then they could be together
Puss Cat — KucKa
2 Scratch Cat — K0LffKa-Llapa11Ka
4
all day long and play in the house
and aplore the Hampshire forests and fields. Their Cousin Betty was expected
there too. Betty got to the Hampshire home first, and the moment she got there
she began to have measlesl, so that the three children couldn't go home at all.
You may imagine their feelings. It was absolutely impossible to spend seven
weeks at Miss Hervey's house, so all three wrote home and said so. This
surprised their parents very much, because they had always thought the children
liked to go to dear Miss Hervey's house. However, they were 'jolly decent about
it'2, as Jerry said, and let the boys go and stay at Kathleen's school, where
there was no one except the French teacher.
'We must have some sort of play during
the holidays,' said Kathleen, when she had unpacked and arranged the boys'
clothes in the drawers, feeling very grown-up. 'Let's write a book about what
schools really are like. People would read it and say how clever we were.'
 'More likely expel us,' said Gerald. 'No;
we'll have an out-of-doors game. We could get a cave and keep stores in it.'
'There aren't any caves,' said Jimmy. 'And, besides,
Mademoiselle won't let us go out alone.'
'Don't worry,' said Gerald. 'I'll go and talk to her.'
It was a thin and
interesting-looking boy that knocked at the door of the room where the French
teacher sat reading a book. Gerald could always make himself look interesting
when he met new grown-ups. It was done by opening his grey eyes rather wide,
and having a nice expression.
'I hope I am not disturbing you,' said
Gerald, when he came in.
'Bùt no/ she said. 'What is it that you want?'
'I decided to come and say how do you do,' said Gerald,
'because you are the lady of the house3.'

I she began to have measles — OHa CXBaTHJIa KOPb
2
they were jolly
decent about it — OHH IIOCTYIIHJIH nopqaoqHble
3
the lady of the
house — HaqaJIbHHUa WKOJ1b1
5

'You are a very polite little boy,' she said.
'Not at all,' said Gerald, more polite than ever. 'I am so
sorry for you, because you'll have to look after us in the holidays.'
'But not at all,' said
Mademoiselle in her turn. 'I am sure you will be very good children. '
'We'll try,' he said hÓnestIy.
'We don't want to give you any trouble at all. And I was thinking it would be
less trouble for you if we could go out into the woods tomorrow and take our
dinner with us — something cold, you know.'
Mademoiselle laughed and Gerald laughed too.
'Little deceiver!' she said. 'Why not
say at once you want to be free of overwatchingl?'
 'You have to be
careful with grown-ups,' said Gerald. 'Your parents, they permit these days at
woods?' 'Oh, yes,' said Gerald truthfully.
        'Then I will not
be more a dragon than the parents.'
'Thank you!' said Gerald. 'Is there anything we can do for
you — wind your wool, or find your spectacles, or
'He thinks me a
grandmother!' said Mademoiselle, laughing more than ever.
'Well, what luck?' the others asked.
'It's all right,' said Gerald. 'I told you it would be.'
'I don't believe you. She's too stern,' said Kathleen.
 'Ah!' said Gerald, 'that's only because
you don't know how to manage her2. She wasn't stern with me.'
Next morning the children went to explore the woods.
 'But are there any woods?' asked Kathleen
as they passed the market-place.
'It doesn't much matter about woods3, '
said Gerald dreamily, 'I'm sure we'll find something. One of the boys told me
his

I you want to be free of over-watching — Bbl XOTHTe
H3ÕaBHTbCH OT Moero Haa30pa 2 you don't know how to manage her
-—•bl He yrqeeulb rlPaBWIbHO K Heñ noaoiiTH
3 It doesn't much matter about woods — 3T0 H He -raK BaXHO
6
father said when he was a boy there was a little cave near
the Salisbury Road; but he said there was an enchanted castle there too, so
perhaps the cave isn't true either.'
Finally they came to a place where the
road, as Gerald said, went two ways at once.
' That looks like adventures, ' said
Kathleen; and they turned to the right, then turned to the left, so as to be
quite fairl ' Jimmy said, and then to the right again and to the left again,
and so on, till they were completely lost.
' Completely, ' said Kathleen; 'how interesting!'
The adventurers decided to sit down and
have something to eat. And as they sat and rested, Gerald leaned back against
the bushes and almost fell over backward. He stood up and
said. 'I couldn't feel anything but air, it's a hole there.' The other two
pulled back the bushes. There certainly was a hole in the bank. 'I'm going in,'
said Gerald. He put his knee on a stone and disappeared.
'You all right?' asked Jimmy.
'Yes; come on.'
He helped Kathleen and Jimmy to get in.
'It is a cave,' said Kathleen.
They could see that they were in a dark
stone cave three or four yards long, which turned then sharply to the right.
The adventurers turned the corner and
saw a round arch. They passed through the arch into a deep, narrow passage
whose banks were of stones. On the top of the banks grew trees, and the
sunlight came through their branches, turning the passage to a corridor of
gold-green. At the end of it was
another round arch, quite dark inside, above which rose
rocks and grass and bushes.
 'It's like a railway tunnel,' said James.
'It's the entrance to the enchanted castle,' said Kathleen.
At the dark arch they stopped.
'There are steps down,' said Jimmy.
so as to be quite fair — paAH paBHOBecHH
7

Very slowly and carefully they went
down the steps. Gerald struck a match and they saw a passage, turning to the
left. They went on, following their leader. The passage was very dark.
'I don't like it!' whispered Jimmy.
Then the children saw daylight that grew
and grew. The passage finally ended in another arch. They passed through the
arch and came to a marble terrace, which was white in the sunlight. It was a
fantastic view like a picture out of a book about Italy. Immediately below them
was a lake with swans and an island; beyond it were green slopes covered with
trees, and amid the trees they saw white statues. To the left there was a round
white building with pillars, and to the right — a waterfall. Away across the
grassy slopes they saw deer.
'It is an enchanted castle,' said Kathleen.
'I don't see any castle,' said Jimmy.
'What do you call that, then?' Gerald
pointed to white towers beyond the trees. 'It is an enchanted castle,' said
Gerald. 'But there aren't any.' Jimmy was quite positive.
'How do you know? Do you think there's
nothing in the world but what you 've seen?'
'I think magic went out when people
began to have steamenginesl,' Jimmy insisted, 'and newspapers, and telephones.'
'Perhaps there's no magic because people
don't believe in it any more,' said Kathleen.
'Well, don't let's spoil the show with
any silly old not believing,' said Gerald with decision. 'I'm going to believe
in magic as hard as I can. This is an enchanted garden, and that's an enchanted
castle, and I'm going to explore them.'
There never was such a garden out of a
picture or a fairy-tale. They passed quite close by the deer, who only raised
their pretty heads to look, and were not afraid at all. Then they

I I think magic went out when people
began to have steam-engines — AY'MaF0, BOJIU1e6CTBO 3aKOHHWIOCb nocne Toro, KaK
H306peJIH napoB03
8
came into a rose-garden, red and pink and green and white in
the sun, like a giant's many-coloured handkerchief.
The feeling of magic got thicker and
thicker, till they were almost afraid of the sound of their feet in the great
silent place. Beyond the rose garden was a hedge with an arch cut in it, and it
was the beginning of a maze.
It was impossible to get to the middle of
the maze. Again and again they found themselves at the arch. It was when they
found themselves there for the fourth time that Jimmy suddenly cried, 'Oh,
where's the dinner?' And then in silence they all remembered that the basket
with the dinner had been left at the entrance of the cave.
'Let's go back,' said Jimmy, 'now this
minute, and get our things and have our dinner.'
'Let's have one more try at the maze.
I hate giving things upl ' said Gerald. What's that?'
'That' was a red cotton thread. Gerald
picked it up. One end of it was tied to a thimble with holes in it, and the
other — 'There is no other end,' said Gerald, with firm triumph. 'It's a clue—
that's what it is. I've always felt something magic would happen some day, and
now it has.'
'I think the gardener put it there,' said Jimmy.
'With a Princess's silver thimble on it? Look! There's
a crown on the thimble.' There was.
'Come,' said Gerald, 'if you are adventurers be
adventurers. '
He walked forward, winding the red
thread round his fingers as hes went. The red clue led them to the
middle of the maze. There was a sun-dial there, and all round against the hedge
a low, wide marble seat. The red clue ended in a small brown hand with rings on
every finger. The hand belonged to a lady who lay on the stone seat asleep in
the sun. She was wear-
I hate giving
things up — TepneTb He MOW He AOBOAHTb aeno ao
KOHUa
9
ing a wonderful rosy-gold silk dress; a thin white veil
with silver stars covered the face.
'It's the enchanted Princess,' said Gerald, now really
impressed. 'I told you so.'
'It's the Sleeping
Beauty,' said Kathleen. 'It is — look how old-fashioned her clothes are. She
has slept for a hundred years. Oh, Gerald, you're the eldest; you must be the
Prince, and we never knew it.'
She very gently lifted the edge of the
veil and turned it back. The Princess's face was small and white. It was
surrounded by long black hair. Her nose was straight; there were a few freckles
on cheekbones and nose.
'No wonder,' whispered Kathleen, 'sleeping
all these years in all this sun! But she is lovely!'
'Not so dustyl,' said Gerald.
'Now, Jerry,' said Kathleen firmly, 'You've got to
kiss and wake the Princess.'
'Not me!? declared Gerald. 'She'd go for
me the minute she woke up.
'I can kiss her,' said Jimmy. 'I'm not a
coward, like Some People.'
And before Gerald could say a word
Jimmy loudly kissed the Princess on her pale cheek, and now the three stood
breathless, waiting for the result.
And the result was that the
Princess opened large, dark eyes, stretched out her arms, yawned a little,
covering her mouth with a small brown hand, and said:
'Then the hundred years are over? Which
of you is my Prince that woke me from my deep sleep?'
'I did,' said Jimmy fearlessly, for she
did not look as though she were going to slap anyone. 'But you aren't really a
Princess, are you?'

1
Not so dusty — Aa
Bpoae He aypHyu_IKa
2
She'd go for me
the minute she woke up. — OHa upocHeTcH H TYT xe Ha6POCHTCH Ha Mer--1H.
10
'Of course I am,' she answered. 'Look at my crown!' She pulled
aside the veil, and showed beneath it a crown decorated with diamonds.
'How did you get past the dragons?' asked the Princess.
Gerald ignored the question. 'I say,' he
said, 'do you really believe in magic, and all that?'
'I ought to, if anybody doesl ' she said
and showed a little scar on her wrist from the spindle.
'Then this really is an enchanted castle?'
'Of course it is,' said the Princess.
'How stupid you are!' She stood up.
'Let's go back to the castle,' she said,
'and I'll show you all my lovely jewels and things. Wouldn't you like that?'
'Yes,' said Gerald with hesitation. 'But —' 'But
what?' The Princess's tone was impatient.
'But we're most awfully hungry.
'Oh, so am I!' cried the Princess. 'I
haven't had anything to eat for a hundred years. Come along to the castle.'
'The mice have eaten everything2,'
said Jimmy sadly. He saw now that she really was a Princess.
'Not they,' cried the Princess. 'You
forget everything's enchanted here. Time simply stood still for a hundred
years.'
Helpful Words
look
forward (to) phr v OXMAaTb c HeTepneHHe,M explore V Id3yqaTb, MCCneAOBaTb
arrange V ÏIPHBOAHTb B nopHA0K; YCTPaHBaTb expel V HCKJHOqaTb, BblFOHHTb
stores n pl rrpunacbl wind v CMaTb1BaTb
I ought to,
if anybody does — KOMY xe He BePHTb, KaK MHe
2 The mice have eaten everything— TaM, HaBepHoe, yxe BCë

11

stern a
cTporHñ lean back phr v 0TK1dAb1BaTbCfl bank n Hacblflb, 6eper yard n
qpa (Mepa AJIHHb1, paBHaq 91 CM) arch n apva view n BHA, neM3ax slope n CVJIOH
pillar n KOJIOHHa deer (pl deer) n OJIeHb spoil v HOPTHTb hedge n XMBaq
M3rop0Ab maze n naÕMPHHT thread n HHTb thimble n HanepcT0K clue n
3ò. rryreB0AHafl HHTb freckle n BecHY111Ka slap v nyr1HTb impatient a
He-repneJIMBb1ñ
Exercises
1
Say who is:
a)
Kathleen.
b)
Betty.
c)
Miss Hervey.
d)
Mademoiselle.
e)
the Princess.
2

Answer the questions.
e)

What looked like a railway tunnel?
f)
What helped the children to get to the middle of the maze?
                                                                           g)
Who woke the Sleeping Beauty?
3
Say why:
a) Mademoiselle was not stern with Gerald.
b)
Gerald refused to kiss the Princess.
c)
the Sleeping Beauty invited the children to her castle.
4
What do we call a
person who:
a)
deceives?
b)
is fond of adventures?
c)
works in a garden?
d)
is not brave?

in the
  right form.

5
Choose the verbs
from the box and use them in the sentences

a)
b)

a) Where and why did Jerry, Jimmy and
  Kathleen spend

 their summer holidays?
b) Who looked after the
  children at school?

d)

Where did the children go next morning?

e)

c)

to
permit to look forward to point to pick up to arrange

The childrento exciting adventures. Mademoiselle
the children to go out to the woods.

ed castle.

Gerald

the red cotton thread tied
  to a sil-

Geraldto the white towers of the
enchant-

ver thimble.

Kathleen unpacked her brothers'
clothes and

d) How did
they find the cave?                                them in the drawers.

12                                                                                13

6
Write the words
in the plural form.
Example: a swan — swans
A cave, a deer, a handkerchief, an arch, a grown-up, a
match, a sun-dial, a mouse.
7
Draw the way to
the enchanted castle and say how you can get there. Use the following phrases:
The way starts at
First you should go
Then you should turn to the right (left)
Pass through the arch
Turn the corner
8
Make a map of the
park and describe it.
9
Jimmy said: 'The
magic went out when people began to have steam-engines...' Do you agree with
him? Do you believe in magic?
10
Describe the
Princess and say what the children thought about her.
Part 2
When the procession entered the
castle the Princess turned to her guests.
'You just wait here a minute,' she said,
'and don't talk while I'm away. This castle is full of magic, and I don't know
what will happen if you talk.' And with that she ran out, as Jimmy said
afterwards, 'most unprincesslikel ' showing as she ran black stockings and
black shoes.

1 most
unprincesslike — COBCeM He TaK, KaK non06aeT npHHuecce
14
Soon she returned with a tray, which held
some bread and cheese and a jug of water.
'Come along,' said the Princess
hospitably. 'I couldn't find anything but bread and cheese — but it doesn't
matter, because everything's magic here, and unless you have some awful secret
faultl the bread and cheese will turn into anything you like. What would you
like?' she asked Kathleen.
'Roast chicken,' said Kathleen, without hesitation.
The Princess cut a slice of bread and laid it on a dish.
'Green peas?' asked the Princess, cut a
piece of cheese and laid it beside the bread.
Kathleen began to eat the bread,
cutting it up with knife and fork as you would eat chicken. She didn't see any
chicken and peas, or anything but cheese and dry bread.
'If I have an awful secret, it is a
secret, even from me,' she told herself.
The others asked for roast beef and
cabbage and got it, she supposed, though to her it only looked like dry bread
and Dutch cheese. For herself the Princess chose a piece of roast peacock.
'It's a game, isn't it?' asked Jimmy suddenly.
'What's a game?' asked the Princess, frowning.
'Pretending it's beef— the bread and cheese, I mean.'
'A game? But it is beef. Look at it,'
said the Princess, opening her eyes very wide.
'Yes, of course,' said Jimmy. 'I was only joking.'
Bread and cheese is not perhaps so
good as roast beef or chicken or peacock, but bread and cheese is, at any rate,
very much better than nothing at all. Everyone ate and drank and felt much
better.
'Now,' said the Princess, 'you can come
and see my treasures. '
She got up and they. followed her down the long hall to the
great stone stairs. Under the stairs behind a heavy curtain there was a little
door.
unless you
have some dreadful secret fault — ecnu TOJ1bKO y Bac
Ha COBeCTH He-r KaKOrO-HH6YAb yxacHoro rpexa
15
'This is the door leading to my
private apartments,' said the Princess.
She opened the door, and they went
straight on — in the dark.  Soon they reached another door. The
Princess took the key from the outside of the door, put it in the keyhole, and
turned it.
The room they were in was small and
high. Its ceiling was deep blue with gold stars. The walls were of wood,
panelled, and there was no furniture in it at all.
'This,' said the Princess, 'is my treasure chamberl.' 'But
where,' asked Kathleen politely, 'are the treasures?' 'Don't you see them?'
asked the Princess.

'No, we don't,' said Jimmy. 'You don't come that
breadand-cheese game with me2 — not again!'
'If you really don't see them,' said the
Princess, 'I suppose I shall have to say the charm. Close your eyes, please.
And give me your word of honour you won't look till I tell you, and that you'll
never tell anyone what you've seen.'

The children gave their words of honour
rather reluctantly and closed their eyes.
'Wiggadil yougadoo begadee leegadeeve
nowgadow?' said the Princess rapidly. Then they heard a creaking noise.

'She's locking us in!' cried Jimmy.
'Your word of honour,' whispered Gerald.
'You may look,' said the voice of the
Princess. And they looked. The room was not the same room, yet — yes, the blue
ceiling was there, but now the walls sparkled with white and blue and red and
green and gold and silver. There were shelves around the room, and on them were
gold cups and silver dishes, and ornaments of gold and silver, tiaras of
diamonds, necklaces of rubies, emeralds and pearls.
my treasure chamber — KOMHan, rae xpaHk0 CBOH COKPOBHU1a 2
You don't come that bread-and-cheese game with me — H He
PaccHHTb1BañTe, LITO CHOBa
6yay nrpaTb B nonaaBKH, KaK c x-rre60M H Cb1POM
16
The three children remained breathless,
open-mouthed, looking at the sparkling treasures all about them, while the
Princess stood with a proud smile on her lips.
 'Can I do magic, or can't I?' she asked
triumphantly.
'You can; oh, you can!' said Kathleen.
'May we — may we touch?' asked Gerald.
'All that's mine is yours,' said the
Princess, and added quickly, 'Only, of course, you mustn't take anything away
with you.'
'We're not thieves!' said Jimmy. The
others were already turning over the wonderful things on the shelves.
'Perhaps not,' said the Princess, 'but you're a very
unbelieving little boy. I say, let's all dress up and you be princes and
princesses too. '
The children decorated themselves with
diadems, necklaces, and rings.
Kathleen stood quite still with a diamond
bracelet raised in her hand.
'I say,' she said. 'The King and Queen?'
'What King and Queen?' asked the Princess.
'Your father and mother,' said Kathleen.
'Won't they be wanting to see you, after a hundred years, you know?'
'Oh — ah — yes,' said the Princess
slowly. 'I embraced my parents when I got the bread and cheese. They're having
their dinner. '
'Look here,' said Gerald, 'if you're
sure your father and mother don't expect you, let's go out and have a good game
of something — unless you can do any more magic tricks.'
'You forget,' said the Princess, 'I'm
grown up. I don't play games. And I don't like to do too much magic at a time,
it's so tiring. Besides, wemust put all these things back in their proper
places.'
As Kathleen was putting the last
shining ornament into its proper place, she saw more rings and brooches and
chains and other things, and all were of ordinary metal. 'What's all this
rubbish?' she asked.
'Rubbish, indeed!' said the Princess.
'Why those are all magic things! This bracelet — anyone who wears it has got to
speak the truth. This chain makes you as strong as ten men.'
'What does this brooch do?' asked
Kathleen, reaching out her hand. The princess caught her by the wrist.
'You mustn't touch,' she said; 'if
anyone but me touches them all the magic goes out at once and never comes back.
That brooch will give you any wish you like.' 'And this ring?' Jimmy pointed.
'Oh, that makes you invisible.'
'I say,' said Gerald, excited. 'Could you
show us how some of the things act? Couldn't you give us each a wish?'
'No,' said the Princess suddenly, 'It
can't give wishes to you, it only gives me wishesl. But I'll let you see the
ring make me invisible. Only you must close your eyes while I do it.' They
closed them.
 'Count fifty,' said the Princess, 'and
then you may look. And then you must close them again, and count fifty, and
I'll reappear. '
Gerald counted, aloud. Through the
counting they could hear a creaking sound.
'Forty-nine, fifty!' said Gerald, and
they opened their eyes.
They were alone in the room. The jewels
had disappeared and so had the Princess.
'That is magic,' said Kathleen breathlessly.
Gerald began counting again. He
and Kathleen had both closed their eyes. But somehow Jimmy hadn't. He didn't
mean to cheat, he just forgot. And as Gerald's count reached twenty he saw a
panel under the window open slowly.
 'I knew it was a trick!' he said to
himself and at once closed his eyes, like an honourable little boy.
It can't give wishes to you, it only gives me wishes—
Baum xenaHHS1 6p0111Ka HCflOJTHHTb He MOXeT, 110TOMY wro OHa BblnonHHeT TOJ1bKO
MOM xenaHv-rq
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 On the word 'fifty' six eyes opened. And
the panel was closed and there was no Princess.
'I believe there's a cupboard under the
window,' said Jimmy, 'and she's hidden in it. Secret panel, you know.'
'You looked! That's cheating,' said the
voice of the Princess so close to his ear that he quite
jumped.
         'I didn't cheat.
'
Though the children heard her voice still
there was no Princess to be seen.
'Come back again, Princess dear,' said
Kathleen. 'Shall we close our eyes and count again?'
'Don't be silly!' said the voice of the Princess.
'We're not silly, ' said Jimmy.
'You know you're only hiding.' 'If you're hiding, as Jimmy says, you'd better
come out. If you've really turned invisible, you'd better make yourself visible
again,' said Gerald.
'Do you really mean,' asked a voice
quite changed, 'that you can't see me?'
'No, I tell you,' said Jimmy.
'You are really invisible. Look in the glass,' said
Gerald.
There was a silence, and then the
children heard a cry of despair.
'Oh — oh — oh! I am invisible. What shall I do?'
'Take the ring off,' said Kathleen, suddenly practical.
Another silence.
'I can't!' cried the Princess. 'It
won't come off. I But it can't be the ring. I was only playing at magic. I just
hid in the secret cupboard — it was only a game. Oh, whatever shall I do?'
'AS game?' said Gerald
slowly; 'but you can do magic — the invisible jewels, and you made them come
visible.'
'Oh, it's only a secret spring and the panelling slides up2
Oh, what shall I do!'
It won't come off. — OHO He CHHMRTCH.
2 it's only a
secret spring and the panelling slides up— eCJIH HaXMe111b Ha
r10TaùiHY'}0 npYY01HKY, naHeJ1b B CTeHe CABIfraeTC51
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'Don't cry, dear,' said Kathleen; 'let me go and tell the
King and Queen.'
'Your royal father and mother.'
'Oh, don 't mock me!' said the poor
Princess. 'You know that was only a game, too, like —'
'Like the bread and cheese,' said Jimmy
triumphantly. 'I knew that was!'
'But your dress and being asleep in the maze, and —'
'Oh, I dressed up for fun, because
everyone's away at the fair, and I put the clue just to make it all more real.
I was playing at the Sleeping Beauty first, and then I heard you talking in the
maze, and I thought what fun; and now I'm invisible, and I don't know what to
do.
'But if you're not the Princes, who
are you?' asked Kathleen. 'I'm— my aunt lives here,' said the invisible Princess.
'She may be home any time. Oh, what shall I do?'
'Perhaps she knows some charm — 'Oh,
nonsense!' said the voice sharply; 'she doesn't believe in charms. She would be
so cross.'
'Let's go out
into the garden, near the lake, where it's cool, and we can discuss it,' Gerald
said kindly. 'You'll like that, won't you?'
'Let's go down to the Temple of
Floral, by the lake,' said the voice.
The three children and the invisible
Princess went down to the white marble Temple of Flora that stood close against
the side of the little hill, and sat down inside it. It was cool and quiet
there.
'Well,' said Gerald, 'first of all,
what's your name, and if you're not a Princess, who are you?'
'I'm — I'm,' said a crying voice,
'I'm the housekeeper's — niece — at — the — castle — and my name's Mabel
Prowse.'

I Temple
of Flora — XpaM (ÞnopbI (Onopa — apeBHepHMcKaq
60rHHH
BeceHHero L.IBeTeHHB H UBeTOB)
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'That's exactly what I thought,'
said Jimmy, without a shadow of truth, because how could he? The others were
silent, because they didn't know what to think of it.
'Well, anyhow,' said Gerald, 'you live here.'
'Yes,' said the voice. 'Oh yes, I live
here right enough, but what's the use of living anywhere if you're invisible?'
Helpful Words
hospitably adv rocTenpHHMHO peacock n charm n
3aKJIMHaHHe; KOJIAOBCKMe gapbl reluctantly adv HeOXOTHO creaking a ornament
n yxpameHHe thief (pl thieves) n BOP dress up phr v HaPHXaTbCH embrace V
06HHMaTb tiring a YTOMMTeJ1bHb1M brooch n 6POU.1Ka rubbish n Mycop, XJ1aM
count v CtlMTaTb cheat V MOLLIeHHHqaTb, 06MaHb1BaTb trick n ulYTKa; Y'J10BKa
mock v HaCMeXaTbCH fair n qpMapKa cross a cepAHTb1iÍ
Exercises
1
Answer the
questions.
a)
What kind of food did the Princess give to her guests?
b)
Where did she take them after dinner?
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c)
What treasures did the Princess show to the children?
d)
How did the
Princess turn invisible?
e)
Why couldn't she become visible again?
t) What is the real name of the Princess?
2
Say who:
a)
chose roast beef and cabbage for dinner.
b)
said the charms.
c)
saw rings and chains of ordinary metal.
d)
hid in the secret cupboard.
e)
went to the marble Temple of Flora.
3
Choose the right
ending.
a)
Gerald and Kathleen agreed to pretend that the dry bread and
cheese were roast beef and chicken because 1) they were terribly hungry.
2)  they were afraid of
the Princess.
3)  they were too polite
to tell the truth.
b)
Jimmy didn't close his eyes because
1)
he wanted to cheat.
2)
he forgot about
it.
3)
he had a problem with his eyes.
c)
Mabel dressed up as a Princess because
I) she decided to play at a Sleeping Beauty.
2)  her aunt was at the
fair and couldn't stop her. 3) she had no other clothes.
4
Translate into
English the word combinations and phrases with the word magic.
3aecb BCë BOnure6HOe.
BOJ1me6HOe
KOJIbUO
BOJIU_1e6CTBO ucqe3HeT H HHKoraa He
11051BHTCH CHOBa. urpaTb B BOJIUR6CTBO
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5
Fill in the
prepositions of, with, in, for, off.
a)
Kathleen asked Mabel to takethe magic ring.
b)
Mabel's aunt
didn't believe charms.
c)
The children decorated themselves  jewels.

d)
The castle is full magic.

e)
Mabel dressed up as a princess
6
Complete the
chart.
take      took taken
lay
7
Say which word
does not go with the others and why.
a)
chicken, cheese,
peacock, beef
b)
bracelet, ring, necklace, dish
c)
triumphantly, practical, cross, shining
d)
to cheat, to
count, to cut, to come
8
Imagine that you
are Mabel. Say:
a)
how you spent the summer holidays.
b)
what happened that day.
c)
what you felt when you became invisible.
9
Mabel told the
children that they couldn't touch the magic things. Why do you think she said
that? Do you believe her?
10
Imagine that you
are. Jimmy. What made you think that the Princess's magic was a trick?

Part 3
'You'll have to tell your aunt,' said Kathleen kindly.
'No, no, no!' moaned Mabel invisibly;
'take me with you. I don't think that my aunt likes me very much. I'll leave
her a note to say I've run away to sea.'
'Girls don't run away to sea.'
'Well, what shall I do?'
'Really,' said Gerald, 'I don't know what the girl can do.
Let her come home with us and have —
'Tea — oh, yes,' said Jimmy, jumping up. 'And have a
good discussion.' 'After tea,' said Jimmy.
'But the aunt will think something's happened to her.'
'So it has.'
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'And she'll tell the police, and they'll look everywhere
for me.' 'They'll never find you,' said Gerald.
'I'm sure,' said Mabel, 'aunt
would rather never see me again than see me like this. It might kill her. I'll
write to her, and we'll put it in the big letter-box at the gate as we go out.
Has anyone got a pencil and paper?'
Gerald tore a page out of the
note-book and gave Mabel a small pencil. The pencil began writing, forming
round, clear letters on the page. This is what it wrote:
'Dear Aunt,
'I am afraid you will not see me again for some time. A lady in a car has
adopted me, and we are going straight to the coast and then in a ship. It is
useless to fry tofollow me. Good-bye. I hope you enjoyed the fair.
Mabel. '
'But that's all lies,' said Jimmy.
'No, it isn't; it's fancy,' said Mabel.
'If I said I've become invisible, she'd think that was a lie, anyhow.'
Mabel led the children by another and very much nearer way out
of the park. As they got back to school, the first drops of rain fell.
Mademoiselle came herself to open the door.
'You are late!' she cried. 'All goes well?'
'We are very sorry,' said Gerald. 'It
took us longer to get home than we expected.'
The children sat down to supper.
There were only three plates, but Jimmy let Mabel have his. It was strange to
see the bread and butter flying about in the air, and bite after bite
disappearing; and the spoon rising with baked apple in it and returning to the
plate empty.
Everyone was very hungry, and asked
for more bread and butter. Cook grumbledwhen the plate was filled for the third
time.
'It'll be difficult to give Mabel
any breakfast, ' said Gerald; 'Mademoiselle will be here then. She'd have a fit
if she saw bits of bacon fly in the air and disappear.'
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'We shall have to buy things for Mabel to
eat in secret,' said Kathleen.
'Our money won't last longl ' said Jimmy.
'Have you got any money?'
'I've not got much money,' was Mabel's
reply, 'but I've got a lot of ideas.'
'We will talk about everything in the morning,'
said Kathleen. 'We must just say good night to Mademoiselle, and then you shall
sleep in my bed, Mabel. I'll give you one of my nightgowns. '
It was extremely strange, Kathleen
thought, to see the Princess's clothes coming out of nothing. First the veil
appeared hanging in the air. Then the sparkling crown suddenly showed on the
table. Then a sleeve of the pinky dress showed, then another, and then the
whole dress lay on the floor. Each piece of clothes became visible as Mabel
took it off. The nightgown, lifted from the bed, disappeared a bit at a time.
Kathleen was just getting sleepy when
she remembered that the maid who would come in the morning would see those
wonderful Princess clothes.
'I'll have to get up and hide them,' she said.
And as she lay thinking about it she
fell asleep, and when she woke again it was bright morning, and Eliza was
standing in front of the chair where Mabel's clothes lay, looking at the pink
dress.
'Oh, don't touch, please!' cried Kathleen.
'Where did you get that?'
'We're going to use it for acting2,'
invented Kathleen. 'It's given me for that.'
Here a bell rang and Eliza had to go,
because it was the postman, and she particularly wanted to see him.
'And now,' said Kathleen, pulling on her first stocking,
'we shall have to do the acting. Everything seems very
difficult.'

1   Our money won't last long — HaM
HHKaKHX aeHer He X'BaTHT
2   We're going to use it for acting —
HaM 3TO HÞKHO  CIEKraKJIS1
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'Acting isn't,' said Mabel; and a
stocking disappeared in the air. 'I shall love it.'
'You forget,' said Kathleen, 'invisible
actresses can't take part in plays unless they're magic ones.'
'Oh,' cried a voice, 'I've got such an idea!' 'Tell
it us after breakfast,' said Kathleen.
She brought Mabel a piece of bread
taken by Gerald from the pantry. Mabel ate the bread and drank water from the
toothmug.
'I'm afraid it tastes of cherry
tooth-paste,' said Kathleen apologetically.
'It doesn't matter,' replied Mabel;
'it's more interesting than water. I think red wine in ballads was rather like
this.'
'We're going to tell your aunt where
you really are,' said Kathleen.
'She won't believe you. I expect
you'll be sorry for it,' said Mabel; 'but come on and, I say, do be careful not
to shut me in the door as you go outl. You nearly did just now.'
Mabel's aunt was reading a pink novel at
the window of the housekeeper's room.
'Excuse me,' said Gerald, 'but I believe you've lost your
'Not lost, my boy,' said the aunt, who was thin and tall.
'We could tell you something about her,' said Gerald.
'No complaints, please,' replied
the aunt. 'My niece has gone. If she's played any tricks on you it's only her
light-hearted way.2 Go away, children, I'm busy.'
'Did you get her note?' asked Kathleen.
showed more interest
than before, but she still kept her finger in the novel.

I do be careful not to shut me in the door as you go
out — TOJ1bKO, noxaJIYiácTa, He 11PHUIM6H MeHH ABePbK)
2 If she's played any tricks on you,
it's only her light-hearted way. — ECJIH OHa cblrpa.qa C Barv1H 3Jryw MIYTKY,
TO H3-3a cBoero nerKOMbICJIVtq.
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'Oh,' she said, 'so you saw her leave? Did she seem glad
'Quite,' said Gerald truthfully.
'These romantic adventures do occur in
our family,' said the aunt. 'Lord Yalding selected me out of eleven candidates
for the post of housekeeper here. I have no doubt the child was changed at
birth and her rich relatives have found her.'
'Your Mabel's invisible,' said Jimmy.
'She's just beside me now.'
 'I hate lies,' said the aunt, 'in all its
forms. Will you kindly take that little boy away? I am quite satisfied about
Mabel.'
'But what will Mabel's father and
mother say?' asked Gerald.
'Mabel's father and mother are dead, ' said the aunt calmly.
'All right,' he said, 'we'll leave. But don't say we
didn't tell you the truth, that's all.'
'You have told me nothing,' said the
aunt, 'none of you, except that little boy, who has told me a silly lie.
Good-bye.' And on this they got away quickly.
'Why,' said Gerald, when they were
outside the little court, 'your aunt's mad. She doesn't care what becomes of
you and believes that nonsense about the lady in a car!'
'I knew she'd believe it when I wrote
it,' said Mabel. 'She's not mad, only she's always reading novels. Now I'll
tell you my great idea. I'm not ungrateful, but I'm rather hungry. And you
can't always take things for me from the pantry. If you like, I'll go back and
live in the castle together with the ghosts. I am a sort of ghost now, you
know.'
'Oh no,' said Kathleen kindly; 'you must stay with us.'
'If you could get the ring off, you could
go back,' said Jimmy.
'Yes, but I can't. I tried again last
night and again this morning,' said Mabel's voice. 'What I mean to say — now
that I am invisible we can have adventures.'
' "Adventures," said the
brave pirate, "are not always profitable." ' It was Gerald who said
this.
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'This one will be. Look here, if
Jerry could make himself look common, he could go to the fair and do conjuringl
' 'He doesn't know any,' said Kathleen.
'I should do it really,' said
Mabel, 'but Jerry could look like doing it. Move things without touching them
and all that. Only you mustn't all go. People may wonder what children are
doing all alone by themselves.'
'Don't show that you know me,' said
Gerald, 'try to look as if you came to the fair with grown-ups. If you don't,
some kind policemen will take the little lost children by the hand and
lead them home to parents — the French teacher, I mean.'
'Let's go now,' said the voice. So they went.
The fair was held about half a mile from the castle gates.
When they got near enough Gerald went ahead to get
something to eat. He brought some nuts, red apples, small yellow pears, sweets
and two bottles of ginger-beer2.
They ate and drank. The boys were never
tired of seeing Mabel eat, or rather of seeing the strange, magic-looking
disappearance of food which was all that showed of Mabel's eating.
'I'm sure it will knock them3!' said Gerald, again and
again. It did.
Jimmy and Kathleen were the first
to go to the fair. Soon they saw a strange figure with its hands in its
pockets. It was Gerald, but at first they hardly recognized him. He had taken
off his tie, and round his head, like a turban, was the red school-scarf. And
his face and hands were bright black!
Everyone turned to look at him.
Gerald went up close to a long-faced
woman who was sitting at the door of a small tent.
'I'm a conjurer, from India,' said Gerald.
do conjuring — 110Ka3b1BaTb (þ0KYCb1
2
ginger-beer —
HM6HPHb1ii JIHMOHaa (L11H11YHHñ 6e3WIKOrO.r1bHb1M
Ham.ITOK C HM6upeM)
3   it will knock them — 3T0 110TpqceT
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SNOt you!' said the woman; 'the backs of your ears are all
white. '
'Are they?' said Gerald. 'How clever of you to see
that!'
He rubbed them with his hands.
'That better?' 'That's all right. What do you do?'
 'Conjuring,' said Gerald. 'Look here, if
you help me with the show I'll go sharesl.
'Let's first see how you do conjuring,
since you're so clever.' 'Right you are,' said Gerald firmly. 'You see this
apple? Well, I'll make it move slowly through the air, and then when I say
"Go!" it'll disappear.'
'Yes — into your mouth! Get away with your nonsense.'
He held out one of the little apples,
and the woman saw it move slowly along the air.
'Now — go!' cried Gerald, to the apple, and it went.
'How's that?' he asked, in tones of triumph.
The woman was excited. 'The best I ever
saw!' she whispered. 'I'm on, mate2, if you know any more tricks like that.'
'A lot,' said Gerald. Then he asked:
'Will you give me your shawl?' She gave him a red and black shawl, and he
spread it on the ground and seated himself cross-legged3 behind it. The woman
got a drum from the inside of the tent and beat it.
Quite soon a little crowd gathered.
'Ladies and gentlemen,' said Gerald, 'I
come from India, and I can do tricks which you've never seen. When I see two
shillings on the shawl I'll begin.'
A few pennies fell on the shawl.
'Ninepence,' said Gerald. 'Well, I've
got a generous nature. I don't wish to deceive you — I have an assistant, but
my assistant is invisible. '
if you help me with the show I'll go shares — ecu-IH
Bbl MHe r10Moxete YCTPOHTb npeacTameHHe, Mbl noneJIHM 3apa60TaHHbIe aeHbrH
nononaM
2 1'm on, mate— 51 B Ilene, npH51TeIIb
3
seated himself cross-legged — caM cen ITO-TypeuKH
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The crowd laughed.
'Now,' said he, laying the nine
pennies down on the shawl, 'you keep your eyes on those pennies, and one by one
you'll see them disappear.'
And of course they did. Then one
by one they were laid down again by the invisible hand of Mabel. 'Bravo!' 'Show
us another!' cried the people.
'Now,' said Gerald, 'you've seen what I
can do, but I don't do any more till I see five shillings on this carpet. '
And in two minutes seven shillings lay
there and Gerald did a little more conjuring.
The news of the conjurer had spread
all over the fair. More people came to look at him. The woman stood, looking
more and more pleasant as she saw the money and beat her drum every time Gerald
stopped conjuring.
It was getting quite late, and
Gerald, who was very tired and quite satisfied with his share of the money, was
wondering how to get out of it.
'They'll never let us get away. I
didn't think of that before,' he whispered to Mabel.
She thought and told him what to do.
Gerald asked the woman to divide the
money, which she did honestly enough.
'Now,' he said, 'I'll give you five shillings for your
shawl. ' 'Seven shillings, ' said the woman mechanically.
' Righto!' said Gerald, putting his
heavy share of the money in his trouser pocket.
'This shawl will now disappear,' he
said, picking it up. He gave it Mabel, who put it on; and, of course, it
disappeared. The audience was impressed.
'Now,' he said, 'I come to the last
trick of all. I shall take three steps backwards and disappear. He took three
steps backwards, Mabel put the invisible shawl round him, and he did not
disappear. The invisible shawl couldn't make him invisible.
'Yah!' cried a boy's voice in the crowd.
'Look at him! He knows he can't do it.'
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The crowd was crowding closer. At any
moment they might touch Mabel, and then anything might happen — simply any-
'Oh!' whispered Mabel suddenly, 'I can get it off.'
'Not
'Yes — the ring. '
'Come on, young master. Give us something
for our money,' a farmer shouted.
'I will,' said Gerald. 'This time I really will disappear. Go
into the tent,' he whispered to Mabel. 'Push the ring under the canvas. Then go
away and join the others. When I see you with
them I'll disappear. Go slow, and I'll catch you up.'
'It's me,' said a pale and real Mabel
in the ear of Kathleen. 'He's got the ring; come on, before the crowd begins to
shout. '
As they went out of the gate they heard
the shouting of surprise, and knew that this time Gerald really had
disappeared.
Later they heard footsteps on the road,
and next moment Gerald's voice spoke.
'Hello!' it said gloomily.
'You made me jump! Take my ring off!'
'It's not yours any more than ours, anyhow,' said Jimmy.
'Yes, it is,' said Mabel.
'Oh, stop it!' said the tired voice of Gerald beside her.
'You can't have the ring. I can 't get it off!'
Helpful Words
moan v CTOHaTb adopt v YCb1HOBJHTb, yaoqepATb fancy
n (ÞaHTa3HH grumble v BopqaTb fit n npucTyn maid n cnyxaHKa
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pantry n KlaA0BKa profitable a Bblr0AHb1ii generous a
ueapblii share n 401151 righto int HAeT, cornaceH catch (smb) up phr v AOrHaTb
(KOro-J1.) gloomily adv MpaqH0
Exercises
1
Answer the
questions.
a)
Why didn't Mabel want to talk to her aunt?
b)
What kind of note did she write to her?
c)
How did Kathleen explain to Eliza Mabel's clothes?
d)
What did the children tell Mabel's aunt?
e)
What did she think of their explanations?
f)
What was Mabel's great idea?
g)
What did the children do at the fair?
h)
What did Gerald look like then?
i)
What did he do to get away from the crowd?
2
Put the sentences
in the right order.
a)
Gerald asked the woman with the drum to divide the money.
b)
The children sat down to supper.
c)
Mabel put the invisible shawl round Gerald.
d)
The sparkling crown suddenly showed on the table.
e)
The woman got
drum from the tent and beat it.
f)
Mabel ate the
bread and drank water from the tooth-mug.
g)
Gerald went up close to a long-faced woman.
3
Complete the
sentences.
a)
Jimmy wanted to have a good discussion after supper because
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b)
The children needed money because

c)
Gerald thought that Mabel's aunt was mad because

d)
Gerald didn 't disappear when Mabel put the invisible
shawl round him because e) Gerald couldn't return the ring to Mabel because

4
Find in the text
the English for:
Bona nax'HeT BH111HeBOjå
3y6Hoñ nacToñ.
               Pe6eHKa
rlOAMeHHJIH              POXAeHHH.
11PHBHneHHe
r10Ka3b1BaTb (t)0Kycb1
5
Match the words
and their definitions.
a)
a share 1) a
sea-robber
b)
an assistant 2) a musical instrument played by beating with
sticks
c)
a pirate  3) a
person who helps to do something
d)
tooth-paste   4) a part of something that belongs to more than
one person
e)
a drum  5) a paste used for cleaning the teeth
6
Fill in the gaps
with the names of clothes used in the text in the singular or plural form.
a)
Kathleen gave Mabel one of her own

b)
Eliza was standing in front of the chair looking at Mabel's pink
c)
Gerald was wearing his redlike a turban.

d)
The woman gave Gerald a red and black and he spread it on
the ground.
e)
Gerald put his share of money in the pocket of his

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7
What did you
learn about Mabel and her family? What's your impression of Mabel's aunt?
8
What do you think
of Mabel's letter to her aunt? What would you write if you were Mabel?
9
Describe
Gerald's performance as a conjurer using the following word combinations.
to move things without touching them to do tricks
to sit crossed-legged to make things disappear to lay pennies on
the shawl
10
"Adventures
" said the brave pirate, "are not always profitable." How do you
understand this phrase?
Part 4
The difficulty was not only that Gerald was invisible now,
but that Mabel who was no more invisible couldn't get into the house.
'I can't go
back to aunt. I can't and I won't,' said Mabel firmly.
'But what shall we say to Mademoiselle
about you —!' said Gerald.
'You could tell the truth,' said Mabel.
'She wouldn't believe it,' said Cathy.
'NQ,' said Gerald's voice, 'we
can't tell her. But she's really nice. Let's ask her to let you stay the night
because it's too late for you to get home.'

'That's all right,' said Jimmy, 'but what about you?'
'I shall go to bed,' said Gerald, 'with a
headache. Oh, thafs not a lie! I've got one right enough.'
'I'd do something different from
going to bed with a silly headache,' said Jimmy unkindly. 35
'What would you do?' asked the voice of Gerald.
'I'd be a burglar,' said Jimmy.
Cathy and Mabel reminded him how wrong it was, and
Jimmy replied:
'Well, then—- a detective.'
'It's exactly what I am going to do,'
said Gerald. 'We'll go to the police-station and see what they've got in the
way of crimes. '
They did, and read the notices on the
board outside. Two dogs had been lost and a purse. Also someone had stolen many
silver plates. 'Twenty pounds reward offered for any information that may lead
to the recovery of the missing property.2'
'I'll detect that,' said Gerald; 'Here
comes Johnson,' he added; 'Ask him about it, Jimmy.'  'Hello, Johnson!' he
said.
And Johnson replied: 'Hello. What are
you doing here this time of night?' the constable asked. 'You should be at home
now.'
'We've been to the fair,' said
Kathleen. 'There was an unusual conjurer there.'
'Heard about him,' said Johnson; 'all fake, you know.'
Such is fame. Gerald, standing in the
shadow, jingled the money in his pocket.
'What's that?' the policeman asked quickly.
'Our money jingling,' said Jimmy, with perfect truth.
'It's well to have pockets full of
money,' said Johnson remarked.
'Well, why haven't you?' asked Mabel.
'Why don't you get that twenty pounds reward?'
We'll go to the police-station and
see what they've got in the way of crimes. — Mbl 0TnpaBHMcq B IlOJIHU1ffO H
nocM01VHM, KaKMe y HHX Hac Haiinyrcq npecrywreHHfl.
2Twenty pounds reward offered for any
information that may lead to the recovery of the missing property. —
1303HarpaxaeHHe B 11BŽU1_1aTb (þYHTOB 6yaeT BblnnaqeHO JlK)60MY, KTO
npeaocraBHT HH(þOPMaumo, cnoc06cTB0BY}0111YK) B03Bpm_ueHHK) YKpaaeHHoro.
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'I'll tell you why I' don't. Because you can't arrest a
per-

son on suspicionl, even if you know well who did the
job. '
'And who do you think did it?' asked Jimmy. '
'I don't think — I know. It's a
man known to the police for many crimes he's done, but we never can get enough
evidence against him. '
'Well,' said Jimmy,
'after school I'll come to you and be a detective. Just now I think we'd better
go home and detect our supper. Good night!'
When the
policeman disappeared in the police-station, they heard Gerald's voice.
'You've no more brains than a
halfpenny bun2 ' he said; 'no details about how and when the silver was taken.'
'But
he told us he knew,' said Jimmy.
'Yes, that's all you've got out of him.
Go home and detect your supper! It's all you can do.'
'What'll you do about supper?' Mabel asked.
'Buns!' said Gerald, 'halfpenny buns. I
hope you can buy buns? I can't go into a shop in this state.'
While Cathy and Jimmy were in the shop,
Gerald spoke to Mabel about his plans of starting a detective career.
'The invisible detective may not
only find out about the purse and the silver, but detect some crime that isn't
even done yet. I can follow suspiciously-looking people and catch them
red-handed3. '
'Oh!' suddenly cried Mabel. 'Oh, how
awful! I never thought of that before.'
'Never thought of what?' asked Gerald.
'The window. '
'What window?'
on suspicion — Ha OCHOBaHHM OAHHX r10A03peH11ñ
2
You've no more
brains than a halfpenny bun — Y Te6q M03roB He
60JIbU1e, qeM
y õynot1KM 3a nonneHca
3
catch them
red-handed — noÈÍMaTb c rlOJIH¼Hb1M
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'The panelled-room window. At the
castle. We left it open, and all the jewels and things there. Aunt never goes
in. I must go home now this minute.'
When the others came out of the shop,
the situation was explained to them.
'Aunt will be cross,' said Mabel
sadly. 'As we left the key inside the door, she'll have to ask the gardeners to
get a ladder and —'
'I can help you!' said Gerald. 'I'll
climb in, close the window and get out.'
'Won't you be afraid?' Mabel asked.
'You can be caught?' 'No, I can't be,' answered Gerald. He expected the
question about danger from Kathleen, but all Kathleen said was, 'Well, good-bye;
we'll come and see you tomorrow, Mabel. The Temple of Flora at half-past ten.'
'Leave the pantry window open for me so
I can get in when I've done my detecting,' said Gerald gloomily. Then he took
the bag with the buns and caught Mabel's hand. 'Come on, Mabel.'
Jimmy and Kathleen explained to
Mademoiselle that Jerry had a headache and couldn't come to supper. After
supper they went to bed. They didn't worry at all about their brother.
It was the aunt herself who opened the
door to a very pale Mabel. She made a step towards Mabel.
'You naughty, naughty girl!' she cried
angrily; 'how could you do this to me? Oh, Mabel, thank Heaven you're safe!'
And with that the aunt's arms went round Mabel and Mabel's round the aunt as if
they had never met before.
'But you didn't seem to care about me
this morning,' said Mabel.
'How do you know?'
'I was there listening. Don't be angry, auntie.'
'My dear,' said the aunt slowly, 'I've
been in a sort of trance. I've always been fond of you, but I didn't want to
spoil you. But yesterday quite suddenly I felt as if you didn't matter at all.
I felt the same when I got your letter and when those
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children came. And today I suddenly woke up and realized
that you were gone. It was awful. Oh, Mabel, why did you do it?'
'It was a joke,' said Mabel. And then
the two went in and the door was shut.
'That's very strange,' said Gerald,
outside; 'looks like more magic to me. There's more about this castle than
meets the eye. 1' There certainly was. As Gerald was walking alone and
invisible through the shadowy great garden to look for the open window of the
panelled room he began to feel — well, not excited, not surprised, not worried,
but different.
He had an extraordinary feeling so
difficult to describe, and yet so real and so unforgettable — the feeling that
he was in another world. The feeling was very wonderful; perhaps you will feel
it some day. There are still some places in the world where it can be felt.
Something white moved under a tree.
A white figure came out, a creature with horns and goat's legs and the head and
arms of a boy. And Gerald was not afraid. The white thing rolled on the grass
and ran away across the lawn. Then Gerald saw the pedestal of a statue — empty.
'The statues come alive2,' he said; and another white shape
came out of the Temple of Flora and disappeared in the bushes.
Then something enormously long and
darkly grey came towards him, slowly, heavily. The moon came out just in time
to show its shape. It was of those great dinosaurs, which lived millions of
years ago when they were masters of the world, before Man was. 'It can't see
me,' said Gerald. 'I am not afraid. Ifs come to life, too.'
He touched the side of its
gigantic tail. It was of stone. It turned, however, at the touch; but Gerald
also had turned, and was running with all his speed towards the house. It was
Fear that he ran from, and not the moving stone beast.
There's more about this castle than meets the eye. — B 3TOM
3aMKe BCe He
TaK IIPOCTO, Kak' KaxeTcq Ha nepBb1ñ B3rJIHA. 2 The statues come alive —
CraTYH OXMJIH
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He stood some time under the window,
then he climbed into the room. Once inside the room,
Gerald turned for another look. The statue stood calm on its pedestal.
Everything was in its place now in the garden, nothing moved.
'How extraordinary!' said Gerald. 'I
never thought I could go through a garden and dream like that.'
He shut the window, turned the key,
went out, locked the door agam and went to the end of the passage.
'I wonder where the kitchen is,' said
Gerald. He had quite forgotten that he was a detective. He wanted only to get
home and tell the others about that unusual dream that he had had in the
garden.
He opened many doors, but he could not
find the kitchen. At last he opened a door, and someone inside said something.
Gerald stood back against the wall, as
a man ran to look into the passage.
'All right,' said the man, with
relief. 'The door opened, it's heavy — that's all.
'I thought it was the police that
time!' said another voice. They closed the door again. Gerald did not mind. He
didn't like the look of those men. He felt that they were dangerous. And Gerald
had seen what he wanted to see. By wonderful luck — beginner's luck — he had
discovered a burglary on the very first night of his detective career.l The men
were taking silver out of two great boxes and packing it in sacks.
Gerald turned and went away, very
carefully and very quickly. What shall he do? He stopped and thought hard. Then
he took a pencil and a note-book and wrote:
' You know the
room where the silver is. Burglars are taking silver. Send a man for police. I
willfollow the burglars if they get away before police arrive. '
By wonderful luck — beginner's luck —
he had discovered a burglary on the very first night of his detective career. —
bnaroaapq He06b1KHOBeHHOÈi yaaqe — yaaqe HOBHAKa — OH BCTPeTHJI
rpa6HTeJIeh B nepByo xe HOHb noc.ne Toro, Kavv Per-IIH.JI CTaTb aereKTHBOM.
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'He hesitated a moment, and ended — 'From a Friend—
this is not a selli '
Then Gerald tied the letter round a
stone and threw it into the room where Mabel and her aunt were having supper.
He saw the stone picked up, the letter read.
'Nonsense!' said the aunt.
'Oh! Please send for the police, like he says,' asked
Mabel. 'Like who says?' said the aunt.
'Whoever it is,' Mabel moaned. 'It's
true — I know it's true. Please wake Bates!'
'I don't believe a word of it,' said the
aunt, but she asked Bates to go for the police.
When the police arrived the door of the
room was open, and the silver was gone.
It was five in the morning when Gerald
finally got into his bed, tired and cold.
'Master Gerald!' — it was Eliza's voice
in his ears — 'it's seven o clock and another fine day, and there's been
another burglary — Oh!' she screamed as she came up to his bed. Kathleen came
running from her room; Jimmy sat up in his bed.
'What's up?' Kathleen cried.
Eliza sat down heavily on a box as
she spoke. 'At first his bed was all empty and black and he was not in it, and
when I looked again he was in it. I'll tell Mam'selle of you, with your
tricks.'
'Look here,' said Gerald slowly;
'I'm going to tell you something. Can you keep a secret?' 'Yes,' said Eliza.
'Then keep it and I'll give you two shillings.'
'But what were you going to tell me?'
'That. About the two shillings and the
secret. And you must keep your mouth shut.'
'I will,' said Eliza, holding out her hand.
'Oh, I'm so glad you're safe,' said
Kathleen, when Eliza had gone.
this is not a sell — He 06MaHb1BaK)
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'You didn't seem to care much last night, ' said Gerald coldly.
'I can't think how I let you go. I didn't care last night.
But
I woke this morning and remembered!'
'How did you get visible?' Jimmy asked.
'It just happened when she called me — the ring came off.'
'Tell us all about everything, ' said Kathleen.
'Not yet,' said Gerald mysteriously.
'Where's the ring?' Jimmy asked after
breakfast. '1 want to have a try now.l'
'I expect it's in the bed somewhere,' said Gerald.
But it wasn't. Eliza had made the bed.
'There was no ring there,' she said. 'I swear.'
Helpful Words
headache n ronoBHaq 60J1b burglar n BOP-B3JIOMLUHK notice n
06b¶BJ1eHHe fake n  HaAYBaTeJ1bCTB0 jingle V 3BeHeTb, 3BHKaTb evidence n AOKa3aTeJ1bCTB0,
ynmca ladder n neCTHHua-CTpeMflHKa spoil V 3ò. 6aJIOBaTb relief n
06nerqeHMe swear v Kl¶CTbCñ
Exercises
1        Answer
the questions.
a)
Whom did the children meet near the police-station?
b)
What did Gerald have for supper?
I I want to have a try now. — Ceñqac MOH oqepeAb.
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2
3
4
c)
What did Kathleen and Jimmy do when Gerald and Mabel went to the
castle?
d)
How did the housekeeper meet her niece?
e)
What did Gerald see in the garden?
f)
What letter did Gerald write to Mabel and her aunt?
g)
What happened in the morning?
Say why:
a)
Mabel couldn't
return to school now.
b)
the children went to the police-station.
c)
the constable
couldn't catch the burglars.
d)
Mabel suddenly decided to return to the castle.
e)
Gerald ran with all his speed to the castle. D Mabel's aunt
didn't believe Gerald's letter.
Choose the ending and explain your choice.
a)
Gerald went to
the castle together with Mabel because
l) he wanted to help her.
2)
he wanted to become a hero.
3)
he wanted to
catch the burglars red-handed.
b)
Gerald didn't go to the police when he saw the burglars because
I) he was afraid of them.
2)
he was invisible and couldn't explain the situation to the
police.
3)
he wanted to
follow the burglars and find all stolen
Find in the text the English for:
rlOJIYHHTb B03HarpayueHMe pacKpb1Tb rupecTY'TIJ1eHHe 0)KHBaTb
(2 eapua,wna)
HenocJIYIMHaq neBqOHKa
,x03HeBa
BCeneHHOW
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5
Match the
words and their definitions.
a)
a pedestal 1) good reputation

b)
a burglar 2) Anything that shows or proves some-
c)
fame3) A person who breaks into a house or a shop to steal.
d)
evidence4) a base for a column or a statue

6
Fill in the gaps
with the nouns from the box.

notice headache creature  career

a)
Gerald decided to start a detective
b)
Gerald saw a strangewith horns and goat's legs and the
head and the arms of a boy.
c)
Kathleen and Jimmy told Mademoiselle that Gerald was in bed with
a bad

d)
The children went to the board and read a about a lost
purse.
7
Imagine that you
are Gerald. Describe the creatures you saw in the garden and say what you felt
about it.
8
Imagine that you
are Mabel. Say:
a)
why you returned to the castle.
b)
how you learned about the burglary.
c)
what you did then.
9
Beginner's luck
helped Gerald to discover the burglary at the first night of his detective
career. Have you ever had beginner's luck? Can you describe your feelings?

Part 5
On the way to the Temple of Flora the
children decided to take a short rest and sat on the churchyard wall.
'Oh, Jerry,' said Kathleen. 'I'm simply
dying to hear what happened last night.'
Gerald told them his story. As he
told it some of the white mystery and magic of the moonlit garden got into his
voice and his words, so that when he told of the statues and the great beast
that came alive, Kathleen and Jimmy listened to him openmouthed.
Then came the thrilling story of the
burglars, and the warning letter. Gerald told the story with the greatest
enjoyment and in detail. The church clock struck half-past eleven, and they saw
Mabel.
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 'I couldn't wait any
longer,' she explained, 'when you didn't come. Has anything more happened? The
burglars had gone when Bates got to the room.'
'Go on, Jerry,' said Kathleen. 'He's
just got to where he threw the stone into your room, Mabel.'
 Mabel climbed on to
the wall. 'You've got visible again quicker than I did,' she said.
Gerald nodded and went on with his story:
'I returned to the room. Soon the
burglars came out. They didn't see me, and I saw them all right.
              'Which
way did they go?' asked Mabel.
'They passed across the park. The stone
things that come alive kept looking out from between bushes and under trees.
They saw the burglars; but the burglars couldn't see them.' 'The stone things?'
asked Mabel.
Gerald told her of the statues.
'I never saw them come alive,' she said,
'and I've been in the garden in the evening many times. '  'I
saw them,' said Gerald firmly.
'I know, I know,' said Mabel; 'what I
mean to say is that they could only be visible when you're invisible.'
'You can be right,' agreed Gerald. 'The
castle garden's enchanted, but what I should like to know is how and why. I
say, come on, I've got to catch Johnson before twelve.'
'But you can talk as we go,' said
Mabel. 'Oh, it is so awfully thrilling!'
This pleased Gerald, of course.
'Well, I just followed. They got out of the park the same way,
where we got in. Then they went through the place where the poor people live,
and right down to the river, And — I say, we must run to catch Johnson. '
So the story stopped and the running began.
They caught Johnson in his own back-yard washing.
'Look here, Johnson,' said Gerald,
'what'll you give me if I help you to win that reward?'
'Half,' said
Johnson, 'but I don't believe any of your nonsense. '
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'It's not nonsense,' said Gerald very
impressively. 'When you catch the burglars you just give me a quid for luck. I
won't ask for more.'
'I'm sure you do want something more off
of me,' said Johnson, 'But don't you want the reward yourself?'
'You are right,' said Gerald. 'I want
that you never tell anyone who told you. Let them think it was your own luck
and
far-sightedness. You see, I found it out
late at night, in a place where I wasn't supposed to bel.
Johnson was now too interested, and
Gerald told him how he had seen the burglars at Yalding Towers and how he had
followed them.
'I saw them hide the sacks and I know
the other stolen things are in the same place, and I heard them talk about when
to take them away. '
'Come and show me where,' said Johnson.
'No,' said Gerald calmly; 'if you go there now you'll find
the silver, but you'll never catch the thieves.'
'You're right there,' said the policeman. 'Well?'
'Well, a car will be waiting for
them beyond the boathouse at one o clock tonight. They'll get the things out at
halfpast twelve. And you could catch them then.'
'It seems to me real enough,' said Johnson.
'He's not a liar— none of us are.'
'It's the chance of your lifetime.2 Do you agree?' 'I
agree,' said Johnson.
'Then when you're on duty you go
down to the river, and the place where you see me blow my nose is the place.3
The sacks are tied to the posts under the water.'

1 in a place
where I wasn't supposed to be — B TOM MecTe, rae MHe
He  6bITb 2 It's the chance of your lifetime. — TaK0M maHC BblnaaaeT JIHU1b
OAHH pa3 B XH3HH.
3 the place
where you see me blow my nose is the place — Koraa Bbl
YBHAHTe, '-ITO q CMOPKmOCb B
HOCOBOiá rmaTOK, Bbl Y3Haerre,
3TO H eCTb TO caMoe MeCTO
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Johnson said that he would go immediately.
The children were already at the river
when they heard the policeman's heavy boots. Gerald stopped at the end of a
little landing-stage and loudly blew his nose.
'Morning, ' he said immediately.
'Morning,' said Johnson. 'Got a cold?'
'Ah! I shouldn't have a cold if I'd got
boots like yoursl,' said Gerald admiringly. 'Look at them. Anyone would know
your footsteps a mile off. How do you ever get near enough to anyone to arrest
them?' He whispered as he passed Johnson, 'That's the place,' and he left
followed by the others.
'We've brought a friend home to dinner,'
said Kathleen, when Eliza opened the door. 'Where's Mademoiselle?'
'Gone to see Yalding Towers. Today's
show day.2 And hurry over your dinner. It's my afternoon out, and my gentleman
friend3 doesn't like to wait.
'All right, we'll eat very quickly,' Gerald promised.
They kept their word. The dinner was
over in a quarter of an hour.
'And now,' said Mabel, when Eliza
disappeared up the stairs, 'where's the ring? I must put it back.'
'I'm very sorry — we're all very sorry,'
began Kathleen, and then they told her how the ring was lost. 'Let's all look
again. We were rather in a hurry this morning.'
So they looked, and they looked. In
the bed, under the bed, under the carpet, under the furniture. They shook the
curtains; they explored the corners, but found no ring.
'Then,' said Mabel at last, 'your
housemaid have stolen it. That's all. I shall tell her I think so.'
Suddenly they heard knocking at the back door. All the
servants except Eliza were away on their holidays, so the children went
together to open the door.

I I shouldn't have a cold if I'd got boots like yours
— 6b1 HHKOraa He rrpocryawrcq, eCJIH õbl y MeHH õbIJIH TaKMe
60THHKM
2 Today's show day. — CeroAHH eraM
rrycKaK)T noceTHTeneii. my gentleman friend — MOM XeHMX
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When they opened the door they saw a young
man, with his hat very much on one side, his mouth open under his fair
moustache, and his eyes as nearly round as human eyes can bel He wore a
suit of a bright mustard colour and a blue necktie. His expression was that of
a person who is being dragged somewhere against his will.2 He looked so strange
that Kathleen tried to shut the door in his face, but she couldn't do it, There
was something in the way.
'Leave go of me!3' said the young man.
'Oh, yes! I'll leave go of you!' It was
the voice of Eliza but no Eliza could be seen.
'Who holds you?' asked Kathleen.
 'She has, miss,' replied the unhappy
stranger. 'Eliza, miss. At least it sounds like her voice, and it feels like
her body, but I can't see her.'
'That's what he keeps on saying,' said
Eliza's voice. 'He's my gentleman friend.'
Suddenly his hand dropped. Eliza had
'left go' of him. She pushed past the children, but Gerald caught her by the
arm with one hand and whispered: 'Don't move and don't say a word. If you do —
well, what's to stop me from sending for the police?'
Eliza did not know what there was to stop
him. So she did as she was told, and stood invisible and silent.
The mustard-coloured young man stood
looking at the children with eyes, if possible, rounder than before.
'What is it?' he asked. 'What's it all about?'
'If you don't know, I'm afraid we can't
tell you,' said Gerald politely, 'but I'll give you a bit of advice. You go
home and lie down. You'll be all right tomorrow.'
'The sun's very hot, you know,' added Mabel.
his eyes as nearly round as human eyes can be — rna3a
ero CTa.!1H a6COJIK)THO KpyrJ1b1MH
2     His expression was that of a person
who is being dragged somewhere against his will. — Becb ero BHA roBopH-r1 0
TOM, qmo ero KYAa-T0 Tau1aT np0THB BOÄH.
3     Leave go of me! — OTflYCTH MeHH!
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'Hasn't Eliza gone out to meet me?' he asked.
'Eliza's indoors,' said Mabel. 'She can't
come out to meet anybody today. '
'You go home and lie down,' said
Kathleen. 'I'm sure you must need it. Good afternoon.'
'Good afternoon, miss,' said the young
man and went slowly away.
The children explained to Eliza very
carefully and quite kindly that she really was invisible, and that if you steal
rings you can never be sure what will happen to you.
'Is it for ever?' moaned Eliza, 'No one
will marry a girl he can't see.'
'No, not for ever,' said Mabel kindly,
'I expect you'll be all right tomorrow. '
'Tonight, I think,' said Gerald.
'We'll help you all we can, and not tell
anyone,' said Kathleen.
'Not even the police,' said Jimmy.
'Look here, we'll have a picnic and
we'll take Eliza. I'll go out and get the cakes,' said Gerald.
When Mademoiselle came home, they started
off for Yalding Towers.
'Picnic parties aren't allowed,' said Mabel.
'Ours will be,' said Gerald.
Tea and the buns made an excellent
picnic. They sat in the garden till the sun set behind the line of black
fir-trees on the top of the slope, and the white temple turned grey.
'It would be a very nice place to live in,' said Kathleen.
'Draughty,' said Eliza, 'a lot of steps to clean! Oh,
what's
'What?'
'That white thing coming down the steps. Why, it's a young
man in statuary 1'
Why, it's a
young man in statuary. — Aa 3T0 xe MOJIOAOM qeJIOBeK, KOTOPb1ü TOJ1bK0 qT0
6b1J1 cmweñ.
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'The statues do come alive here, after
sunset,' said Gerald calmly.
'I see they do.' Eliza did not seem at
all surprised or alarmed. 'There's another of them. And many more.' 'I don't
see any statues,' said Jimmy.
'Don't you see?' Gerald whispered; 'The
statues come alive when the sun goes down and you can't see them unless you're
invisible, and you're not afraid unless you touch them.' 'Let's get her to
touch one and see,' said Jimmy.
In the darkness of the park the children
could see the statues — white and motionless. But Eliza saw other things.
'Oh,' she cried suddenly, 'here's the
dear little boy with the deer — he's coming to me!'
Next moment she was screaming and running away.
'Come on!' cried Gerald; 'she
touched it, and then she was frightened. Just like I was. Run! She'll send
everyone in the town mad if she gets there like that.l
They ran, but Eliza was much ahead of them.
'I'll stop here; see you tomorrow,' said
Mabel, as they reached the terrace. Then they turned the corner of their own
street and saw an unseen person trying to open the locked door of the school.
The church clock struck the half-hour.
'Half-past nine,' said Gerald. 'Pull at
the ring. Perhaps it'll come off now.'
He spoke to the bare doorstep. But it was Eliza who suddenly
held out a hand — a hand that they could see; and in the hand they saw the
magic ring.
Next morning Eliza's gentleman friend
was waiting for her when she opened the door.
'Sorry you couldn't come out yesterday,' he said. 'So
am I. What did you do?' she asked.
She'll send everyone in the town mad if she gets there
like that. OHa CBeneT C YMa BeCb ropon, ecJIH npvwqwrcq Tyaa B TaKOM COCTOHHHH.
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'I had a headache,' said the gentleman
friend. 'I laid down most of the afternoon. And what did you do?'  'Oh, nothing
interesting,' said Eliza.
'Then it was all a dream,' she said, when
he was gone; 'but it'll be a lesson to me not to take anybody's old ring again
in a hurry.'
'So they didn't tell her about me
behaving like I did,' said he as he went — 'sun, I think. I hope it will not
happen to me again!'
Helpful Words
thrilling a 3aXBaTb1Bakou.1MM quid n pa3e. d)YHT
CTePJIHHrOB far-sightedness n aaJ1bHOBHAHOCTb boat-house n capaü JIOAOK landing-stage
n rrpwc-raHb moustache n ycbl mustard a ropHHHHb1h draughty a pacr10J10xeHHb1M
Ha CKB03HHKe scene n 3ð. neKOPaUHH
Exercises
1        Answer
the questions.
a)
Why children didn't meet Mabel at the Temple of Flora?
b)
Why did they go to Johnson's house?
c)
What did Gerald offer to the constable?
d)
Why did Eliza ask the children to hurry over their dinner?
e)
What advice did
the children give to Eliza's young man?
f)
What happened at
Yalding Towers?
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2
3
4
5
6
Put the sentences in the right order.
a)
Gerald told his
friends the story of the burglars and the
warning letter.
b)
When Mademoiselle returned the children and Eliza went to Yalding
Towers for a picnic.
c)
The children heard the policeman's heavy boots.
d)
Gerald stopped at the end of a little landing-stage and loudly
blew his nose.
e)
The children explored the corners of the room but couldn't find
the magic ring.
f)
The children saw a strange young man in a mustardcoloured suit
with round eyes.
Prove that Kathleen, Jimmy and Mabel found Gerald's story about the
enchanted garden and the burglars thrilling.
Find in the text the English for:
CJTYU1aTb
KOFO-TO, paCKPb1B POT BblCMOPKaTbC¶ ra.ncTYK
3aKPb1Tb ABepb nepen CaMb1M ero HOCOM B cneu_1Ke
Fill in the prepositions against, under, at, in, for.
a)
Gerald asked the constable to give him a quid luck.
b)
Gerald described his adventures  detail.
c)
sThe sacks were tied to the posts the water.
d)
Eliza's young man had a look of a person dragged somewhere his will.
e)
The children heard knocking       the back door.

Put as many questions as you can.
a)
Then they went through the place where the poor people live.
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b)
A car will be waiting for them beyond the boat-house  at
one o'clock tonight.

c)
Tea and the buns made an excellent picnic.
d)
Next moment she was screaming and running away.
7
Imagine that you
are constable Johnson. Say:
a)
what story you heard from Gerald.
b)
what you thought about it.
c)
where the burglars kept the sacks with silver.
d)
how you learned about this place.
e)
what Gerald's plan was.
t) what you think about this boy.
8
Describe Eliza's
young man. How did he explain himself what had happened to him?
9
Imagine that you
are Eliza. Say:
a)
how you got the ring.
b)
why you didn't
return it at once.
c)
what happened when you put it on your finger.
d)
when you realized
that you were invisible.
e)
what you saw at Yalding Towers.
D what you thought about all this story with the ring.
Part 6
Johnson was the hero of the town.
It was he who had tracked the burglars and found the stolen
silver. It was Gerald who went out after breakfast to buy the newspaper, and
who read aloud to the others the two columns about the policeman with perfect
detective instincts. As he read every mouth opened wider and wider.
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'How could he say all that?' said
Kathleen, 'if it hadn't been for you they could do nothingl, Jerry.'
'Well,' said Gerald, 'you know, after
all, he had to say something. I'm glad I —' And he stopped.
'You're glad you what?'
'It doesn't matter,' he said, 'Now,
what are we going to do today? Mabel will want her ring. And you and Jimmy want
it too. Oh, I know. We haven't been attentive to Mademoiselle lately. We'll go
to the fair and buy her flowers.'
The three children met Mabel at the
corner of the square where every Friday there was a fair and you could buy
fresh meat, vegetables, sweets, toys, mirrors, and all sorts of other
interesting things.
The sun was shining, and, as Mabel said,
'all Nature looked smiling and cheerful. '
They chose carnations: a bunch of yellow
ones, a bunch of white ones, and a bunch of red ones. They took the carnations
home, and Gerald knocked at the door of the drawingroom, where Mademoiselle
seemed to sit all day.
'Come in!' came her voice; and Gerald
entered. She was not reading, on the table he saw a sketch-book and an open
colour-box.
'With all of our loves,' said Gerald and
laying the flowers down before her.
'You are a dear child.' And before
Gerald could say anything, she kissed him on the two cheeks.

'Are you painting?' he asked.
'I am doing a sketch,' she answered and showed him a
beautiful •and exact sketch of Yalding Towers.
'Oh, I say — ripping!' was the
critic's comment. 'May the others come and see?' The others came, including
Mabel, who stood behind the rest, and looked over Jimmy's shoulder.
if it hadn't been for you they could do nothing —
ecJIH 6b1 He Tbl, y HHX 6b1 HHqero He Bb11WIO
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Mademoiselle saw Mabel and asked: 'A
friend from the town, yes?'
'How do you do?' said Mabel politely.
'No, I'm not from the town. I live at Yalding Towers.'
The name seemed to impress Mademoiselle very much.
'Yalding Towers,' she repeated, 'but
this is very extraordinary. Is it possible that you are then of the family of
Lord Yalding?'
'He hasn't any family,' said Mabel; 'he's not married.'
'Are you his niece then?'
'No,' said Mabel, 'I'm Lord Yalding's housekeeper's niece.'
'But you know Lord Yalding?'
'No,' said Mabel, 'I've never seen him.
'Then he never comes to his castle?'
'I have never seen him. But he's coming next week.' 'Why
doesn't he live there?' Mademoiselle asked.
'Auntie says he's too poor, ' said
Mabel, and told the story as she had heard it in the housekeeper's room: how
Lord Yalding's uncle had left all the money to Lord Yalding's cousin, and poor
Lord Yalding had only just enough to keep the old place in
repairi, and to live very quietly somewhere else.
'But how his uncle could be so cruel to
leave him the castle and no money?' asked Mademoiselle.
'Oh, I can tell you that too,' said
Mabel. 'Lord Yalding wanted to marry a lady his uncle didn't want him to, a barmaid
or a ballet lady or something, and his uncle said, "Well then," and
left everything to the cousin.'
'And you say he is not married.
'No — the lady went into a convent.'
'And this lord did not then look for his lady?'
'Oh, yes did,' said Mabel; 'but there are millions of con-
vents, you know, and he had no idea where to look, and they
sent back his letters from the post-office, and —

I to keep the old place in repair — HT06b1 coaepxaTb B nopflAKe
CTaPb1M 3aMOK
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'It seems that one knows all in the
housekeeper's saloonl ' said Mademoiselle.
'Pretty well all,' said Mabel simply.
'It is nearly dinner-time,' said the
French teacher. 'Your friend will be our guest, and in her honour we will make
a little feast. My beautiful flowers — put them into the water, Kathleen. I run
to buy the cakes. Wash the hands, all, and be ready when I return. '
Smiling and nodding to the children, she
left them, and ran up the stairs.
'Look here,' said Gerald, 'this is jolly
decent of her. Let us stay today indoors and play with her instead. I think
she's most awfully bored2. '
'Would she really like it?' Kathleen wondered. 'Aunt Emily
says grown-ups never really like playing. They do it to please us.'
'They little know,' Gerald answered,
'how often we do it to please them.'
'We've got to do that dressing-up with
the Princess clothes anyhow,' said Kathleen. 'We can do it after dinner. Come
on, Jimmy; let's help Eliza to lay the table3
They went.
'It was lucky,' said Gerald suddenly
thought, 'that the burglars didn't go for the diamonds in the
treasure-chamber.'
'They couldn't,' said Mabel almost in a
whisper; 'they didn't know about them. Nobody knows about them, except me — and
you. Aunt doesn't know. I just found out the spring by accident. And if the
burglars do know,' said Mabel, 'it'll all come out at the tria14 '
'There won't be any trial,' said Gerald thoughtfully.
'No trial?'

I one knows
all in the housekeeper's saloon — B KOMHaTe 3KOHOMKM 06cyx.aa10T BCë
2
she is most
awfully bored — OHa 3Aecb yxacH0 cKyqaeT
3
to lay the table
— HaKPb1Tb Ha CTOJI
4
it'll all come
out at the trial — BCë CTaHeT H3BeCTHO Ha cyae
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'The burglars had been warned by
someone and the police didn't catch them,' he said.'
'What a pity!' said Mabel.
'It's a pity you think it's a pity,
because it was me,' said Gerald. 'I couldn't help it.l I went to a prison once,
with father; and after I'd shown the place to Johnson I remembered that, and I
just couldn't.'
'How did you warn them?' said Mabel.
'I just shoved a paper under the man's
door— the one that I knew where he lived — to tell him to lie low2. I know it
was wrong, but I couldn't help it. Don't tell the others. They wouldn't
understand why I did it. I don't understand it myself.'
'I do,' said Mabel: 'it's because you've
got a kind and noble heart.'
'Come on; let's wash our hands.'
'It's a pity the ring can 't make
invisible just parts of you the dirt, for instance.'
'Perhaps,' Gerald said unexpectedly, 'it
won't make even all of you invisible again.'
'Why not?' asked Mabel.
'You were invisible twenty-one hours; I
was invisible fourteen hours, and Eliza only seven — that's seven less each
time. And now we've come to zero. It will be something different this time. And
there's another odd thing. When you're invisible your relations don't love you.
Look at your aunt, and Cathy didn't care about me going burgling. We haven't
got to the bottom of that ring yet.3
It was a real feast. They had cakes and
fruit and chocolates. There were jokes and stories and laughter. Jimmy did
conjuring, Mademoiselle told them stories of her own school-
I couldn't help it. — He Mor 1--rwqero c c060Vf noaenaTb.
2  to lie low — CV-ueTb TWXO
3  We haven't got to the bottom of that
ring yet. — MH el_ue He BCë 31--raeM 06 3TOM KOJIbUe.
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days and drew pictures of everything they asked for, till
Gerald asked her. 'Do you like acting — the theatre, I mean?'
'But yes— I love it.'
'All right,' said Gerald. 'We'll act a
play for you this evemng if you like.
'But certainly,' said Mademoiselle;
'amuse yourselves well, my children. '
'But it's you,' said Mabel suddenly, 'that we want to amuse. Because we
love you very much — don't we, all of you?'
'Yes,' said the others. As Mabel said it,
they found to their surprise that it was true.
'You love the old French teacher?
Impossible,' said Mademoiselle.
'You're not old,' said Mabel; 'and
you're as lovely as a Princess. '
The children ran out of the room to get
ready for the performance.
In the evening Mademoiselle was invited
into the diningroom. Eliza held the door open before her, and followed her in.
It was rather dark there. The curtain concealed that part of the room, which
was the stage.
Chairs had been placed across the
other end of the room — all the chairs in the house, as it seemed. Mademoiselle
started when she saw that many of these chairs were occupied by men and women
with strange, clumsy figures, and all with hats on.
'But,' whispered Mademoiselle, 'you have
then invited other friends?'
Laughter answered her from behind the curtain.
'It's only part of the performance,' cried Mabel.
Eliza, laughing, turned on the light.
Mademoiselle looked at the figure seated
nearest to her, half laughed, half screamed, and sat down suddenly.
'Oh!' she cried, 'they are not alive!'
Eliza, with a much louder scream, had
found out the same thing and announced it differently. 'They have got no
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insidesl ' said she. The seven members of the audience had,
indeed, no insides to speak of. Their bodies were rolled-up blankets, their
backs were broom-handles, and their arm and leg were hockey sticks and
umbrellas. Their hands were gloves filled with handkerchiefs; and their faces
were the paper masks painted in the afternoon by Gerald and tied on to the
round heads made of the pillows. The faces were really ugly.
'You have made yourself an audience,
yes? Bravo!' cried Mademoiselle. At this moment the curtain went up. A voice
said, 'Beauty and the Beast2.'
There was a real stage — the
dining-tables pushed close together and covered with pink-and-white curtains.
The scene was simple, but convincing.
 You may imagine what Beauty and the
Beast would be like acted by four children who had spent the afternoon
arranging their costumes and so had left no time for rehearsing what they had
to say. Yet they acted with great pleasure, and the audience liked it. Mabel,
in her Princess clothes, was a real Beauty; Gerald was a Beast, Jimmy was a
merchant, and Kathleen surprised even herself by the quickness with which she
changed from one to the other of small roles — fairies, servants, and
messengers. It was at the end of the second act that Gerald put a ring into
Mabel's hand and said, 'Good-bye, dear Beauty! This is a magic ring that will
give you anything you wish. When you desire to return to your beast, put on the
ring and say your wish. And you will be by my side.' Beauty-Mabel took the
ring, and it was the ring.
The curtain closed to warm applause from two pails of hands.
It's a pity those creatures we made are not
alive,' said Mabel. 'We could get something like real applause then.'
'I'm glad they aren't,' said Gerald.
'When I catch their paper eyes I fell awful.'
It was the middle of the last act when it all happened.
They have got no insides — BHyrpu-T0 OHM nycTb1e

2 Beauty and
the Beast — CKa3Ka «KpacaBHua H WAOBH111e» (cp.
CKa3KY pyccKoro rmcaTeJ1fl C. T.
AKcaKOBa «AJIeHbK1•fM UBe•roqeK»)
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Mademoiselle began it: she
applauded the garden scenel. Eliza's fat red hands followed heavily, and then —
someone else was applauding, six or seven people. Nine faces instead of two
were turned towards the stage, and seven out of the nine were painted paper
faces. And every hand and every face was alive. Mabel looked at the audience in
horror, Mademoiselle and Eliza ran from the room.
'Curtain! curtain! quick!' cried
Beauty-Mabel, in a voice that wasn't Mabel's or the Beauty's. 'Jerry, those
things have come alive. Oh, what shall we do?'
Jimmy and Kathleen drew the curtains.
'You've done it this time!2' said Gerald to worried Mabel.
'I've done it?' asked Mabel. 'I like that!'
'I knew something different was going to
happen,' said Gerald. 'It's turned into a wishing ring3. Those Ugly-Wuglies15
have come alive because Mabel wished it.
'We must go and pull them to pieces4. '
'They're going out!' screamed Kathleen —
'walkingout — on their umbrella and broomstick legs. You can't stop them,
Jerry, they're too awful!'
'Everybody in the town will be mad if
we don't stop them,' cried Gerald. 'Here, give me the ring, I'll unwish them5 '
He took the ring from Mabel, cried, 'I
wish the Uglies weren't alive,' and ran to the door. But nothing happened. The
hall was crowded with live things, strange things, all horribly short as broom
sticks and umbrellas are short. A white face with

1
she applauded the
garden scene — OHa 3awrorrana, YBHAeB 3arqeyaTeJ1bHb1e aeKopauHH CUeHbI B caay
2
You've done it
this time! — Hy, Ha 3TOT pa3 Tbi BJIH11J1a 110HacTomueMY!
wishing ring — KOJIbUO XenaHHii
4 Ugly-Wuglies — Ypoaubl
5 pull them to pieces — pacraluwrb wx
Ha yaCTH
6 1'll unwish them — q 3araamo, HT06b1
OHM HPeBPaTHJIHCb 06paTHO B qyqena
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red cheeks looked up at him, and wide red lips said
something, he could not tell what. And it had said it four times before Gerald
could understand that this alive horror was saying calmly and politely: 'Can
you recommend me a good hotel?'
Helpful Words
track
v BblCneXMBaTb carnation n rB03AHKa bunch n 6YKeT ripping a IUKOJI. OZ.
r10TpqcaH)1LIHñ convent n MOHaCTb1Pb feast n npa3AHHHHb1ñ 06ea,
nup shove V TOJIKaTb, 3ar1UXHBaTb odd a CTPaHHb1ñ relation n POACTBeHHHK
conceal v CKPb1BaTb start V Hat-IHHaTb•, B3AparHBaTb
clumsy a Hey'KJ1}OXHM broom-handle n
WIHHHaq pygKa 0T MeTJ1b1 ugly a OTTUIKHBak0LUHii, rlPOTMBHb1iå scene n
3ð. AeKopauHH convincing a y6eAHTeJ1bHb1M rehearse v merchant n Kyneu applaud v
ar1JIOAMPOBaTb applause n an-llOAHCMeHTb1 horror n yxac
Exercises
1
Say why:
a) the constable was called the hero of
the town.
b)
Gerald decided to buy flowers for Mademoiselle.
c)
Gerald liked Mademoiselle's sketch.
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d)
the police didn't
catch the burglars.
e)
Gerald was sure that the ring would make something different this
time.
f)
the children had to stop the Ugly-Wuglies.
2
Match the two
parts of the sentences.
a)
Gerald
knocked at the1) and Mademoiselle door ofthe drawing-room,and Eliza ran from b)
I just shoved a paperthe room.
under the burglar's door2) to get ready
for the c) The children ran out ofperformance.
the room  3) to tell him to lie
low. d) Mabel looked at the au-4) where Mademoiselle dience in horror,
seemed to sit all day.
3
Choose the right
person and make up sentences.
Example: It was Gerald who went out
in the morning to buy the newspaper.
to become the hero of the town to do a sketch of
Yalding Towers to leave his nephew the castle and no money
to run to buy the cakes to do conjuring to play small roles
4
Find in the text
the English for:
HaKPb1Tb Ha CTOJI yMTñ MOHaCTb1Pb CKa3aTb
URIIOTOM
BKJ101HTb
CBe•T
5
Fill in the gaps
with prepositions with, to, by, in, at.
a)
Mademoiselle offered to make a feast honour of Mabel.
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b)
The children met Mabel the corner of the        square.
c)
Mabel found a secret spring  accident.
d)
The children didn't have much time to rehearse the play but they
acted  great pleasure.
e)
Mademoiselle asked Kathleen to put the flowers the water.

6
Match the verbs
and their definitions.

a)
to rehearse      I) to make a picture by using paint
b)
to scream 2) to practise a play for later performance in public
c)
to recommend 3) to give a loud, sharp cry
d)
to paint    4) to let somebody know of possible danger
e)
to warn    5) to give advice

7
Act out the
dialogue between Mademoiselle and Mabel about Yalding Towers and Lord Yalding.
8
Gerald warned the
burglars about the police trap (o nonwueüCK0i JlOBY"1Ke). Mabel felt
that he had a kind and noble heart. Do you agree with her?
9
Imagine that you
are Mademoiselle. Speak of the performance.
a)
Describe the room.
b)
Describe the strange figures, say what you felt about them.
c)
Speak of your impressions of the play and the actors. d) Say what
happened in the middle of the last act.
10
Gerald says that
the children often play to please the adults. Do you agree with him?

Part 7
The thing was alive, and was asking a
definite and a reasonable question.
'You want a hotel?' Gerald repeated
stupidly, 'a good hotel?'
'A good hotel,' said the painted lips.
'I'nu awfully sorry,' Gerald went on
politely, 'but all our hotels shut so early — about eight, I think.'
'Knock them upl ' said the Ugly-Wugly. Gerald even now does
not undelStand how thát creature made of clothes could become a
perfectly respectable person, about fifty years old — the kind of man who
travels first class and smokes expensive cigars.

1 Knock them up — nocTyqmecb
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'You can't,' Gerald explained; 'they're all deaf— every
person who keeps a hotel in this town. It's a law.
Only deaf people are allowed to keep hotels. It's because of the hops in the
beer, they are so good for ear-ache.l'
 The other
Ugly-Wuglies were crowding round. The lady in a tall hat said:
'If not a hotel, a room.'
'I do know rooms,' said Gerald, 'but —'
The lady UglyWugly in the hat with flowers interrupted him.
'What / want to know,' she said, 'is
where are the carriages we ordered?'
 'I don't know,' said Gerald, 'but I'll
find out. But we

must go now,' he added; 'you see, the performance is
over, and they want to shut up the house2 and turn off the light. Let's go.' The
Ugly-Wuglies went towards the front door.
'I'll try to do anything, of course,'
said Gerald. 'I could go with you, and get you a lodging, if you'd only wait a
few moments in the yard. You see I've got an uncle who's quite mad, and I
have to give him his gruel at half-past nine. He refuses to eat out of any hand
but mine.3' Gerald did not mind what he said. You can tell lies to the
Ugly-Wuglies, because they are not real people and cannot be
really deceived4
Gerald went through the back door, down
the steps into the yard, and the Ugly-Wuglies followed him. Some of them had
boots, but the ones whose feet were only broomsticks or umbrellas had problems
with the stairs.

1
It's because of
the hops in the beer. They are so good for earache. — 9T0 BCë H3-3a
Luuureqevv XMWIH B rlHBe. OHH oqeHb xopo1.110 r10Moram, Koraa 60JIHT yum.
2
they want to shut
up the house — CJIYXHTeJIH XOT¶T 3aKPbITb Tearp
3
He refuses to eat
out of any hand but mine. — OH ec•r TOAbKO TO, LITO ew H.
4
they are not real
people and cannot be really deceived — OHM He
HacTOfl11_1He
moau H JlOXb, cKa3ai--1Hafl MM, He Moxe-T cywraTbcq JIOXbK)
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 'Please wait under
the balcony,' said Gerald, 'my uncle is very mad. If he sees any strangers — I
mean, even aristocratic ones— I won't answer for the consequences.'
'Perhaps,' said the lady in the hat with flowers nervously,
'we could try to find rooms ourselves?'

'I don't recommend it to you,' said
Gerald as gloomily as he could; 'the police here arrest all strangers. It's the
new law. I wouldn't like to see you in prison,' he added convincingly.
The Ugly-Wuglies gathered under the
balcony. Gerald went up the stairs. Behind him in the yard there were seven
impossible creatures. Before him in the silent house there were five frightened
people.
Of course the reason why Gerald was not
afraid was that he had the ring; and, as you have seen, the person who wears it
is not frightened by anything unless he touches that thing. But Gerald knew
well enough how the others must feel.
'Cathy! I say! Jimmy! Mabel!' he cried in
a loud, cheerful voice that sounded very unreal to himself.
The dining-room door opened.
'Are you alone?' whispered Kathleen.
'Yes, of course.'

'Where are they? Have you unwished them?
We heard them talking. Horrible!'
'They're in the yard,' said Gerald with
the best imitation of excitement that he could managel. 'It is such fun!
They're just like real people, quite kind and jolly. Look here, Kathleen and
Jimmy must go to bed, and I'll take Mabel home. I must find some place where
the Ugly-Wuglies could stay. Now I'll speak to Mademoiselle and Eliza.'
He put on his coat as he spoke and now
ran up the stairs. The others, gathered in the hall, could hear his knock at
Mademoiselle's door, his words 'It's only me — Gerald,' the pause, the opening
of the door, and the talk that followed. Then Mad-
with the best
imitation of excitement that he could manage — H30
Bcex CHJI H306paxaq panocTHYK) 3aHHTePeCOBaHHOCTb
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emoiselle and Gerald went to Eliza's door, trying to calm
her
down.
'l wonder what lies he's telling them,' said Jimmy.
'Oh! not lies,' said Mabel; 'he's only telling them as
much of the truth as it's good for them to know.'
'I'm so sorry you were frightened,' Gerald
was saying; 'it was a good trick, wasn't it?'
'Well, so it was,' said Mabel.
'It was indeed a wonderful trick,' said
Mademoiselle; 'and how did you move the figures?'
'Oh, we've often done it — with strings,
you know,' Gerald explained.
'That's true, too,' Kathleen whispered.
'Can you do this remarkable trick again?' asked Mademoi-
selle.
'Oh, I've cleared them all out,'
said Gerald. ('So he has,' said Kathleen to Jimmy.) 'We thought you wouldn't
like to see them again.'
Mademoiselle entered the dimng-room and
saw that the figures had indeed disappeared.
Then Gerald explained to her that it was
his duty to escort Mabel home.
The moment that front door was shut
Gerald led Mabel to the corner of the side street which led to the yard. Just
round the corner he stopped.
'Now,' he said, 'what I want to know is
— are you an idiot or aren't you?'
'Idiot yourselfl' said Mabel mechanically.
'I'm not frightened of the Ugly-Wuglies. They're harmless.

But an idiot might be frightened and give the whole show away. 1 '
'I'm not an idiot,' said Mabel terribly
frightened; 'I'm not afraid of anything. '
But an idiot might be frightened and give the whole
show away. — ECJIH Tbl 6yaeu_1b HAHOTKOM H Hcnyraeulbcq, TH rlPOBUIHU1b
BCë aeJ10.
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 'Mabel,' said Gerald,
in low, thrilling tones, for he saw that the time had come to sound another
notel, 'I know you're brave. I believe in you. That's why I've arranged it like
this. I'm certain you've got the heart of a lion. Can I trust you?'
Mabel felt that to say anything but 'Yes'
was to throw away a priceless reputation for courage2. So she said 'Yes.'
 'Then wait here. And
when you see me with them remember they're as harmless as snakes — I mean
doves. Talk to them just like you would to anyone else. See?'
He turned to leave her, but stopped at
her natural question: 'What hotel did you say you were going to take them to?'
'Oh!' said Gerald hands. 'I forgot! I wanted to ask you — are there any rooms
or anything in the castle where I could put them for the night? The charm will
break3, you know, some time and they'll just be coats and things that we can
easily carry home any day.'
'There's a secret passage,' Mabel
began — but at the moment the yard-door opened and an Ugly-Wugly put out its
head and looked down the street.
'Righto!' — Gerald ran to meet it.
Mabel's hands became cold and damp, but
she stood, saying over and over again: 'They're not true — they can't be true.
It's only a dream.' And then Gerald was there, and all the Ugly-Wuglies
crowding round, and Gerald saying: 'This is one of our friends, Mabel — the
Princess in the play, you know.' The Ugli-WugIies shook her hand and talked
very nicely to her.
Then they all walked up the High Street
as if, as Gerald said, they were anybody else. It was a very strange
procession, but fortunately they met no one.
Mabel decided to show Gerald that she
was not an idiot. So she went on talking with these impossible people.

1
to sound another
note — CMeHHTb macTHHKY
2
to throw away a
priceless reputation for courage — JIHUIHTbCH
UeHHOVf
penyraLIHH OTBOKHOM aeBOHKH
3
The charm will
break — 3T0 KOJIAOBCTBO npoñaeT
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Finally the procession arrived at the gates of the castle.
Locked — of course.
'You see,' explained Gerald, as
the Ugly-Wuglies shook the gates with his hands; 'it's so very
late. There is another way. But you have to climb through a hole.'
'The ladies —' the respectable Ugly-Wugly
began; but the ladies with one voice said that they loved adventures. 'So thrilling,'
added the one who wore roses.
So they went round by the road, climbed
through the hole and came through all passages and arches to the castle garden.
The Ugly-Wuglies looked at the garden and marble terrac-
es in admiration.
'This seems a very good hotel,' said
the Ugly-Wugly in a high hatl.
 'We will have to go in by the back door,'
said Mabel suddenly. 'The front door's locked at half-past nine.'
They went up the steps of the
Temple of Flora. Mabel passed behind the statue of the goddess, and then
Gerald's Iantern showed a very high and very narrow doorway: the stone that was
the door, and that had closed it, moved slowly under the touch of Mabel's
fingers.
'This way,' she said, feeling very nervous.
'You lead the way2, with the lantern,'
said a small UglyWugly to Gerald.
'I — I must stay behind to close the door,' said Gerald.
'The Princess can do that. We'll help
her,' said the lady with flowers.
' You take it,' insisted Gerald giving
the lantern to the elderly Ugly-Wugly; 'you're the natural leader. Go straight
ahead.' The respectable Ugly-Wugly and the others disappeared into that narrow
doorway. Gerald and Mabel almost sobbed with relief. But they didn't have time
to close the door. Sud-
high hat —
UWIMHAP, BblCOKaq MYXCKaq Ill,rwna C He60J1bUIMMH
TBePAb1MH INOJ1flMH
2 You lead the way — Bbl noñneTe nepBb1M
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denly the Ugly-Wuglies returned and tried to open it again.
They could see something in the dark passage that alarmed them or they took it
into their empty heads that this could not be the back way to any really
respectable hotel — Mabel and Gerald never knew. But they knew that the
Ugly-Wuglies were no longer polite and friendly. They were angrily shouting
threats and trying to open the narrow stone door.
'Push, push!' cried Gerald.
'I can't any
more — oh, I can't!' moaned Mabel.
'They mustn't get out!' shouted Gerald.
 'What's up, there?' cried suddenly a new
voice and a new shadow fell on the marble floor of the Temple of Flora.
 'Come and help push!'
shouted Gerald. 'If they get out, they'll kill us all.'
A strong shoulder pushed suddenly
between the shoulders of Gerald and Mabel; the heavy, narrow door slowly
closed, and the angry, threatening mass of Ugly-Wuglies was shut in.
The stranger looked at them and asked:
'Who are you, and what's it all about?'
'I can't possibly tell you,' answered Gerald.
'Come out into the moonlight and let's
talk,' said the man. The stranger led both children out from the temple into the
bright white moonlight and sat down on the steps, a child on each side of him.
He was clean-shaven, and had large eyes that sparkled when the moonlight
touched them. He looked at the children and said in a friendly way:
'Now then! Go ahead!'
Mabel sobbed, but Gerald said: 'If we
told you the truth, you wouldn't believe it.'
'Let me just put the thing from
my point of viewl. I come down from London to take-care of a big estate. On the
very first evening I go out for a walk air, and approaching a white building,
hear sounds of a scuffle, accompanied by cries for help.
put the thing
from my point of view — M3JIOXHTb CBOe BHAeHHe
C06b1THM
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I do help and shut in someone who behind a stone door. Now,
is it unreasonable to ask who it is that I've shut in — helped to shut up, I
mean, and who it is that I've helped?' 'It's reasonable enough,' agreed Gerald.
'Well then,' said the stranger.
'No,' said Gerald, 'I simply can't tell you.
'Then I must ask the other side,' said
the man. 'Let me go — I'll open that door and find out for myself.'
'Tell him,' said Mabel, speaking for the
first time. 'We can't let them out.'
'Very well,' said Gerald, 'I'll tell
him. Will you promise us that you won't tell any one what we tell you and that
you won't put us in a lunatic asylum] if you think that we are mad?' 'Yes,'
said the stranger, 'I think I can promise that.
'Let me begin, then,' said Mabel.
'I found a ring, and I said it would make me invisible. I said it in play. And
it did. I was invisible twenty-one hours. Don't ask where I got the ring.
Now, Gerald, you go on.'
Gerald went on. He spoke for a long time.
'And so,' he ended, 'we got them in there; and when
seven hours are over, or fourteen, or twenty-one, or something with a seven in
it, they'll just be old coats again. They came alive at half-past nine. I think
they'll stop being it in seven hours — that's half-past four. Now will you let
us go
'I'll take you home,' said the stranger in a kindly tone.
'Come.'
'You don't believe us,' said Gerald. 'Of course you don't.
Nobody could. '
'Come, and I'll take you home, ' said the man.
'Mabel lives at the Towers,' said Gerald.
'I'm housekeeper's niece,' said Mabel.
The stranger took Mabel to the castle
and went with Gerald to the door of the school.

I lunatic
asylum — CYMaCLL1e11UIHii AOM
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'Look here,' said Gerald. 'I know
that you're going to open that door.'
'Possibly,' said the man.
'Well — don't. Or, any way, wait till
daylight and let us be there. We can get there at ten.'
'All right— I'll meet you there at ten,'
answered the stranger. 'Good night.'
As the four children went towards
the Temple of Flora, they talked, as they had talked all the morning, about the
adventures of last night. It was not ten, but half-past twelve; because they
had to clear up the messi in the dining-room.
'I do hope he'll be there,' Mabel said;
'he was such a dear, a real gentleman.'
'He isn't there, though,' said Jimmy. 'I believe you
it was just a dream.'
They went up the marble steps in the
sunshine, and it was difficult to believe that it was the same place where
Gerald and Mabel had been so frightened.
'Shall we open the door,' suggested
Kathleen, 'and begin to carry home the coats?'
'Let's listen first,' said Gerald;
'perhaps they aren't only coats yet.'
They listened, but the passage behind the
stone door was quiet. As they turned away they saw the man they had come to
meet. He was on the other side of Flora's pedestal. He lay there on his back,
his arms flung wide2.
'Oh, look!' cried Cathy, and
pointed. The stranger's face was almost green, and on his forehead there was a
cut; and a little blood from it was on the marble floor.
At the same time Mabel pointed too — but she did not cry as
Cathy had done. And she pointed at a white painted paper face with very red
lips. In a moment the face disappeared in the bushes.

1
to clear up the
mess — HaBecTH nop¶A0K
2    his arms flung wide — 111HPOKO
pacKHHYB PYKM
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Helpful Words
deaf a rnyxoñ law n 3aKOH gruel n OBC51Haq
Kama consequence n nocJ1eACTBHe jolly n BeCeJ1b1Ïf calm (smb) down phr v
ycr10KaMBaTb (KOro-J1.) string n BepeBKa harmless a 6e306HAHb1ñ goddess
n 601'HHH lantern n d)0Hapb sob V Pb1AaTb, BCXJIW1b1BaTb clean-shaven a HHCTO
Bb16PHTb1ñ shut (shut, shut) (smb) in phr v 3anupaTb (KOrO-J1.) estate n
110MecTbe scume n CTb1HKa, 110TaCOBKa dear n npeJ1ecTb, AY1-ueHKa point V
y-'Ka3b1BaTb
Exercises
I         Answer
the questions.
a)
Why did Gerald refuse to recommend a hotel to the Ugli-Wuglies?
b)
Why did Gerald ask them to wait for him under the balcony?
c)
What did Gerald say to Mademoiselle and Eliza?
d)
What did Mabel feel about the Ugli-Wuglies?
e)
Where did Gerald and Mabel take the creatures?
f)
Why didn't Gerald and Mabel have time to close the door after the
Ugli-Wuglies?
g)
Who helped the children to shut the Ugli-Wuglies in the passage?
h)
What happened in the morning?
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2
3
4
5
Complete the sentences.
a)
Gerald said that he needed to visit his uncle because

b)
You can lie to
the Ugli-Wuglies because

c)
Gerald was not afraid of the Ugli-WugIies because

d)
Mabel agreed to help Gerald with the Ugli-Wuglies because
e) The Ugli-Wuglies were no longer polite and friendly because

f) Gerald didn't want to tell the
stranger the truth because

Match the two parts of the sentences.
a)
Mademoiselle
entered thel) and the heavy, narrow dining room,door slowly closed.
b)
Then they all walked up2) and a little blood from the High
Streetit was on the marble c) A strong shoulder pushedfloor.
suddenly between the3) and saw
that the figshoulders of Gerald andures had indeed disMabel;appeared. d) On his
forehead there was4) as if they were anya cut;body else.
Find in the text the English for:
OTBeqaTb
3a nocneACTBVtq CKa3aTb aBTOMaTHqecKH eCTeCTBeHHb1M Bonpoc
npupoxueHHb1ií muep 9T0 6b1J1 Bcero JIHU1b COH.
Can you say it in a different way? You've got a heart of a
lion.
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You lead the way. They're as harmless as doves.
to clear up the mess in the dinning-room
6
Choose frightened
or afraid.
a)
In the silent house there were five people.
b)
The younger children were  to leave the room.
c)
'I'm not     of anything,' said Mabel.
d)
Mabel was terribly but she tried not to show it.
e)
The person who wears the ring is not by anything unless he touches that
thing.
f)
In the bright
sunshine it was difficult to believe that it was the same place where Gerald
and Mabel had been

7
Imagine that you
Gerald. Speak of the Ugli-Wuglies.
a)
Describe the creatures.
b)
Say what you felt when they came alive.
c)
Say what happened when you tried to shut them in behind the stone
door.
8
Imagine that you
are Mabel. Say:
a)
what you felt
about the Ugli-Wuglies.
b)
what happened when you got at Yalding Towers.
c)
what you thought
about the stranger who helped you.
9
Prove that the stranger
didn't believe Gerald and Mabel. Would you open the door too?

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Part 8
It was clear that the stranger had
opened the door before the charm broke. The Ugly-Wuglies were then something
more than just coats and hats and sticks. So they had hit him on his forehead
with some kind of stick.
Jimmy and Gerald both knew what
was the first thing needed by the unconscious man, even before Mabel
impatiently said: 'Water! water!'
The two boys turned away.
'And if they go after us?' asked Jimmy.
' What go after us?' said Gerald sharply.
'The Ugly-Wuglies,' Jimmy whispered.
'I'll do it,' said Gerald. He looked to
right and left very carefully, and chose the way to the lake that did not lead
near the bushes. He dropped his handkerchief into the water and returned to the
Temple of Flora. It was with this that the girls wiped the blood from the man's
forehead.
'We need smelling saltsl,' said Kathleen
to Mabel. 'Hasn't your aunt any?'
'Yes, but —'
'Don't be a coward,' said Gerald; 'They won't hurt you.'
There was no choice, so Mabel looked at
the bushes and ran towards the castle.
'He's not dead, is he?' asked Jimmy anxiously.
'No,' said Kathleen, 'his heart's beating. How good-looking
he is!'
Suddenly a shadow fell on the marble beside them and a
voice said: 'Quite a nice young man.'
The children looked up and saw the
face of the respectable Ugly-Wugly. Jimmy and Kathleen screamed. Gerald was not
frightened because he was wearing the magic ring. He looked into the face of
the Ugly-Wugly and started. The face was no

I smelling salts — HK)xaTeJ1bHaq COJ1b (TaK PaHbLLle
Ha3bIBaJIH HaL11aTb1PHb1iÍ cnupT)
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longer paper. It was a real face, and the hands were real
hands. It was alive.
'What happened?' asked Gerald.
'The others lost their way in the
passage last night,' said the Ugly-Wugly. 'They never found the hotel.' 'Did
you?' asked Gerald.
'Of course,' said the Ugly-Wugly. 'Most
respectable, exactly as you said. Then when I came away I found the others all
at this door, very angry. They'd been here all night, trying to get out. Then
this gentleman opened the door and that man in the high hat who has bad manners
hit him on the head, and he fell where you see him. The others went away, and I
myself was just going for help when I saw you. '
Jimmy was sobbing and Kathleen was
white as drawingpaper.
'What's the matter, my little man?'
said the respectable Ugly-Wugly kindly.
'Here, take the ring!' whispered
Gerald and put it on Jimmy's finger. Jimmy stopped crying at once. And Gerald
realized what it was that Mabel had gone through the night before. But it was
daylight, and Gerald was not a coward.
'We must find the others,' he said.
'You two go and see. I'll stay with the man.'
In the wood Jimmy, now fearless as a lion, discovered the
Ugly-Wuglies. There was no life in them. Jimmy shook them to pieces.
When Kathleen and Jimmy returned to the
Temple of Flora, Gerald asked the elderly Ugly-Wugly to
hide in the bushes with Jimmy. 'I think,' said he, 'the man may be upset when
he sees the strangers.'
So the two disappeared behind the
bushes. Mabel came back with the salts just as the stranger opened his eyes
with the question: 'What's up now?'
'You've hurt your head,' said Gerald.
The man sat up, looked round him and
said: 'When did it happen?'
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'We don't know. We found you like it,' said Gerald.
'I'm all right now,' said the stranger,
'thank you for the first aid. But what an odd thing!'
'What's an odd thing?' asked Gerald.
'Well, I saw you just before I
fainted, or whatever it was — but I had the most extraordinary dream while I
was unconscious and you were in it.' 'Only us?' asked Mabel.
'Oh, many things — impossible things —
but you were real enough. '
Everyone breathed deeply in relief.
'I dreamed there was a door behind
Flora's statue, but of course there isn't. I don't know how to thank you,' he
added, looking at them with what the girls called his beautiful, kind eyes;
'You come here when you like, you know.'
'I'll tell you what,' said Gerald,
as the stranger disappeared in the trees, 'I think I know how we can spend the
day. Let's go home and seal up the ring in an envelope so that it'll be
powerless to do something horrible. Then we'll get out on the roof and have a
quiet day — books and apples. I'm fed up with adventures. '
The others told him the same thing.
'But first we must get rid2 of that
Ugly-Wugly,' said Gerald. 'The Ugly-Wugly's real— don't make any mistake about
that. And he became real inside that passage. If we could get him back there he
might get changed again, and then we could take the coats and things back. '
'Isn't there any other way?' Kathleen
asked; and Mabel said sharply: 'I'm not going into that passage!'
'Afraid! In broad daylight3,' Gerald sneered.
'It isn't broad daylight in there,' said Mabel.
I'm fed up with adventures. — yxe no ropno CHT
TIPHVUIK)qeHMflMH.
2
get rid of that
Ugly-Wugly — M36aBHTbCH 0T 3Toro ypoaua
3
In broad daylight
— Cpenb 6ena AHA
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'Anyway,' said Gerald, 'we'll try to get
him back, and shut the door. That's the most we can hope for.l Now, we've just
got to do it. And he's not terrible. He's real, you see. Come on!'
He took a hand of each girl, and
they walked towards the bushes behind which Jimmy and the Ugly-Wugly had been
told to wait. When they were near the bushes Jimmy came out into the sunlight.
He was alone.
'Where is it?' asked the girls in one breath.
'Walking up and down in a walk,' said
Jimmy, 'doing sums in a book2. He says he's a broker. He's very rich, he's got
a car, and a garden with a tennis-court and a lake and he goes to Greece for
his holiday sometimes. He's building a public library for the people where he
lives.'
The children passed
the bushes and reached a grass walk surrounded by trees of different kinds.
'He's just round that corner,' said Jimmy. 'He's simply rolling in money.3 He
doesn't know what to do with it. I wish Iwas rich; I'd soon show him — 'Oh!'
cried Gerald. There, in the green shadows of the trees Jimmy got his wish. He
became rich. And the horrible thing was that though they could see what was
happening, they could not stop it. The whole thing was over in a few seconds.
Yet in those few seconds they saw him grow to a young man, a middle-aged man;
and then, he turned into an elderly gentleman, who was looking down at them
through spectacles and asking them the nearest way to the railway-station. It
was hard to believe that this stout, well-dressed elderly gentleman with the
high hat was their own Jimmy.
'Oh, Jimmy, don't!' cried Mabel.
Gerald said: 'This is awful,' and Kathleen burst into tears.
'Don't cry, little girl!' said
That-which-had-been Jimmy; 'and you, boy, can't you give an answer to a
question?'
That's the most we can hope for. — bonbtue HaM
HaaeflTbCfl He Ha qTO.
2 doing sums in a book — HTO-TO noncHMTb1BaeT B 3aITMCHOñ
KI--IHXKe  He's simply rolling in money. — OH npoc•ro KynaeTcq B aeHbrax.
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'He doesn't know us!' cried Kathleen.
'Look here, Jimmy,'
said Gerald. 'Are you kidding?) Because if you are, it's simply —
'My name is Mr —,' said
That-which-had-been-Jimmy, and gave the name correctly. 'And I don't know you.'
By the way, it will perhaps be shorter to call this elderly stout person 'That'
— short for2 'That-which-had-been Jimmy'.
'What shall we do?' whispered Mabel in
horror, and aloud she said: 'Oh, Mr. James, please give me the ring.'
'Certainly not,' said That firmly. 'Will
you tell me the way to the nearest railway station?
'No,' said Gerald, 'we won't.'
'Then,' said That, politely, though quite clearly angrily,
'perhaps you'll tell me the way to the nearest lunatic
asylum?'
'Oh, no!' cried Kathleen. 'You're not mad.'
'I'm not, but you are,' said That. 'If
you're not mad, you're idiots. However, I see a gentleman ahead. I recognize
him.' And he walked towards the elderly Ugly-Wugly. Two elderly figures raised
their hats, said a few words to each other and walked side by side down the
green walk, followed by three unhappy children.
'He wished to be rich, so of course he
is,' said Gerald; 'he'll have money for tickets and everything. And when the
charm breaks he'll find himself somewhere — perhaps in a realIy good hotel and
not know how he got there. Look here, you two must collect the coats and
things. Hide them, anywhere you like, and we'll carry them home tomorrow. I
must stick to Jimmy.3 Go home to Mademoiselle and tell her Jimmy and I have
gone off in the train and will be back to tea.'
And Gerald started to run after the
Ugly-Wugly and That. He followed them to the station, listened at the ticket
office to the voice of That who asked a ticket to London. When That and the

I Are you kidding? — Tbi HTO,
TIPHKMAb1Baeu1bCH?
2
short for —
coKpaLueHHe 0T
3
| must stick to
Jimmy. — IMHe HYXHO aepxa-rt£$1 6JIMXe K AXHMMH.
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Ugly-Wugly appeared on the platform,
he bought a third return to Londonl. The train arrived and everyone took their
seats.
'I don't understand,' said Gerald,
alone in his third-class carriage, 'how railway trains and magic can be at the
same time. And yet they do.
Mabel and Kathleen found six heaps of
coats, hats, skirts, gloves, golf-clubs, hockey-sticks, broom-handles. They
carried them up the hill to the stone dinosaur and put them in a hole in his
stomach. Then they returned to school. Just as they were explaining to
Mademoiselle that the boys had gone to London, a figure passed the window. It
was the stranger who was coming back from the doctor's with antiseptic plaster
on his cut. 'Who's that?' suddenly asked Mademoiselle.
The girls said that they had met him at
Yalding Towers. After that Mademoiselle didn't ask them any questions about the
boys and later went out for a walk. Kathleen and Mabel stayed at school
thinking of Gerald and Jimmy.
Gerald was standing on the stairs of a
London office building. On the floor below him was a door with a name 'Mr U. W.
Ugli, Broker' and on the floor above was another door, on which was the name of
Gerald's little brother, now elderly and very rich. There were no explaining
words under Jimmy's name. When the door opened, Gerald saw a lot of clerks and
mahogany desks. It was clear that That had a large business, though Gerald
couldn't guess what.
What could Gerald do? It is almost
impossible for a boy to enter a large London office and explain that the
elderly and respected head of it is not what he seems, but is really your
little brother, who had been made old and rich by a wishing ring. He couldn't
knock at the door of Mr U. W. Ugli and inform his clerks that their chief was
just old clothes that had accidentally come alive and then became real.
a third return to London — 6MJIeT TpeTbero K-nacca ao J10HA0Ha u 06paTH0
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There was another difficulty. Gerald had
had no dinner and was very hungry.
At that moment a boy came up the stairs.
He had in his hands a dark blue bag full of buns.
'If you get me buns too, I'll give you
half a shilling,' said Gerald.
'All right, give the money,' quickly said the boy.
'Payment on deliveryl ' said Gerald,
using words, which he had never thought to use.
The boy looked at him in admiration and left.
When he returned Gerald gave the
sixpence and took the buns. A minute later the boy came out of Mr U. W. Ugli's
office.
'What sort of man's that?' he asked.
Big pot2 ' said the boy; 'very rich.'
'Know anything about the one on the next floor?'
'He's bigger than this one. Very old
firm. These two have been rivals for years,' said the boy.
 'Look here. I'll give you five
shillings if you help me.' 'Go ahead,' said the boy.
I'm a private detective,' said Gerald.
'That old man on the floor above — he's wanted3.' 'Police?' asked the boy.
'No — relations. And I must get him to them, somehow. Now, if
you could go in and give him a message from someone who wanted to meet him
on business —
'I've got a better idea,' said the
boy. 'You go in and see old Ugli. He'd give his ears to have the old boy out of
the way for a day or-two.4 '

I Payment on delivery — 011J1aTa no noc-raBKe
 Big pot — bOJ1bL11aq HlH111Ka
3  he's wanted— OH pa3bICKMBaeTCH
4  He'd give his ears to have the old
boy out of the way for a day or two. — OH C panocTb}0 JIHUIMTCH CBOHX
yureÿt, JIMU1b 6b1 apyroii cTapMKaH napy AHeii He 60JITaJIC¶ y Hero noa
HOraMH.
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'You're right,' said Gerald. 'I'll try to do it.
Here's your five shillings.
He knocked at the door of Mr U. W. Ugli.
It opened and he entered.
The boy went down a few steps and heard
the voice of Mr U. W. Ugli. He was saying:
'Then I'll ask him to let me look at the
ring and I'll drop it. You pick it up. But remember, you don't know me. You're
sure he's really unwell?'
 'Yes,' said Gerald; 'he's quite mad about
that ring. He'll follow it anywhere. I know he will. And think of his unhappy
relations. '
'I do — I do,' said Mr Ugli kindly;
'that's all I think of, of course. '
He went up the
stairs to the other office, and then That and Mr Ugli went out to have lunch.
The two boys followed. 'I say,' said the boy, 'what are you up to?l'
'Well, I'll tell you, but you won't
believe me. That old gentleman's not really old at all — he's my younger
brother who suddenly turned into what you see. The other's not real at all.
He's only just old clothes and nothing inside. They were turned like that by a
magic ring'.
'There is no such thing as magic,' said the boy. 'I
learned that at school.'
'All right,' said Gerald. 'Good-bye.' 'Oh, go
ahead!' said the boy.
'Well, if I can get that magic ring I
shall just wish we were all in a certain place. And we shall be. And then I
will take care of them.'
That and Mr Ugli entered a very expensive restaurant.
Gerald was going to follow them.
           'I
say, are you really going into this place?'
'Yes, I am. You go, too. I'll pay for the lunch.'

I what are you up to? — I-ITO Tbi
3aAYMaJ1?
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The boy was the only person Gerald
knew in London except That-which-had-been-Jimmy and the Ugly-Wugly; and he did
not want to talk to them.
What happened next happened so quickly
that, as Gerald said later, it was 'just like magic'. The restaurant was crowded.
Gerald ordered two chops. Then at the next table he heard the words, 'Ah, yes,
a curious old family thing.' That took off the ring and gave it to Mr Ugli. And
then the ring slipped from the hand of Mr Ugli and fell on the floor. Gerald
grasped the ring, put it on his finger and cried out aloud in that crowded
place:
'I wish Jimmy and I were inside that door
behind the statue of Flora. '
It was the only safe place he could think of.
Gerald never knew what happened in that
restaurant. There was nothing about it in the papers. He never knew what the
boy did or thought. The lights and the sounds of the restaurant disappeared.
Now there was darkness and silence around them. And through the darkness came a
voice — and it was not the voice of that elderly man who had been Jimmy, but
the voice of Jimmy who was Gerald's little brother. The voice said: 'Jerry,
Jerry! I've had such an odd dream.'
'It's all right, Jimmy,' he said; 'it's
not a dream now. It's that ring again. I had to wish us herei, to get you back
out of your dream.'
'Wish us where?' asked Jimmy.
'Inside the
passage behind the Flora statue,' said Gerald.
'But how are we going to get out?' asked Jimmy. 'Oh! I
know. It isn't true. It's a dream!'
'Yes,' said Gerald bravely, 'it's just a
dream, Jimmy. We'll just call out now and then2, but it's really only a dream,
of course. '

1 | had to
wish us here — MHe rlPHLWIOCb noxenaTb, HT06bI Mbl
0Ka3UIHCb
3aecb
 We'll just call out now and then — MH TOJ1bKO 6yueM BpeMH 0T
BpeMeHH 3BaTb Ha 110M0111b
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Helpful Words

b)
  hit the stranger with a stick.
c)
  shook the
  Ugli-Wuglies to pieces.

unconscious a 6e3 C03HaHHfl

d) was building a public library.

wipe v BblTHPaTb

e) walked side by side followed by three children.

hurt V rlPHtåHHHTb 6011b, PaHHTb

D knocked at the door of Mr
  U. W. Ugly.

anxiously adv c 6eC110KOVfCTBOM aid
  n HOMOU_1b

g) ordered two chops in the
  restaurant.

faint V r10Tep¶Tb C03HaHHe

3

Put the sentences in the right order.

dream
  V CHHTbCH, BHAeTb BO CHe seal up phr v 3aneqaTb1BaTb

a) That and Mr Ugli entered a very
  expensive restaurant.

sneer v YCMexaTbcq

b) In the green shadows of the trees Jimmy got his

walk n 3ò. Tpor1HHKa

wish.

carriage n 3ð. BaroH

c)
  Gerald dropped his handkerchief into the water and

mahogany n KpacHoe aepeB0

returned to the Temple of Flora.

guess v aoraaaTbcH

d)
  The children looked up and saw the face of the re-

rival n conepHHK, KOHKYPeHT

spectable Ugly-Wugly.

slip V CKOJ1b3HTb, BblCKOJ1b3HYfb

e) Mabel came back with the smelling salts.

grasp v XBaTaTb

t) The train arrived and everyone took
  their seats.

Exercises

4

Find in the
  text the English for:
LITO CTPflCJIOCb Ha 3TOT pa3?

1       Answer the questions.

nepBaq HOMOLUb

a) What did the children do to help the
  stranger?

yaCTHb1ñ aeTeKTHB

b)
  What happened
  to the respectable Ugly-Wugly?
c)
  What made Jimmy fearless as a lion?

OH COBCeM 110Tep¶J1 roJ10BY H3-3a 3Toro KOJIbUa.

d) Why did Gerald want to get rid of the Ugly-Wugly?

5

Fill in the prepositions through, for, over, in, after.

e) What happened to Jimmy when he wished to
  be rich?

a) Jimmy was afraid that the
  Ugly-Wuglies would go

f) Why did Gerald follow his brother to
  London?

him.

g)
  Where did Kathleen and Mable hide the clothes of the
  Ugli-Wug1ies?
h)
  In what way did
  Gerald bring his younger brother back?
2          Say
  who:
a) lost
  their way in the passage.
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b)
  The boy looked at Gerald  admiration, took the money for
  the buns and left.
c)
  And  the
  darkness came the voice of little Jimmy.
d)
  I was just going     help when I saw you.
e)
  The whole thing was     in a few seconds.
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6
Use the verbs in
the right form.
a)
Jimmy  (to
stop) crying at once.
b)
The children saw what  (to happen) to Jimmy, but they
couldn't stop it.
c)
The girls said that they  (to meet) the stranger at Yalding
Towers.
d)
Gerald  (to
have) no dinner and was very hungry.
e)
The lights and the sounds of the restaurant (to disappear).
7
Say what
you know about Mr U. W. Ugli. Use the same plan to talk about Mademoiselle and
yourself.

Questions

Mr U. W. Ugli

a) What do you do?

I'm a broker.

b)
Where do you
work?
c)
Where do you
live?

d)
Where do you go
for your holidays?
e)
What hobby do you
have?
8
Imagine that
you're Kathleen. Say:
a)
how Jimmy turned into an elderly gentleman.
b)
what you felt about it and why.
c)
what you told Mademoiselle.
9
Imagine that you
are a boy who helped Gerald in London. Describe in detail what happened that
day. Do you think that it was magic?

Part 9
When people are surrounded by
magic almost anything may happen. So it is not surprising that Mabel and
Kathleen felt a strange, unreasonable, but quite strong wish to return to the
Temple of Flora.
And this explains how it was that when
Gerald and Jimmy, holding hands in the darkness of the passage, called for help
for the first time, and that call was at once answered from outside.
Mabel and Kathleen opened the stone door,
and the boys came out of the passage into the Temple of Flora. Then Gerald and
Jimmy answered the questions of their sister and Mabel.
'And you left that Ugly-Wugly in London,' said Mabel;
'though you could take him with you. '
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'It's all right where it is,' said
Gerald. 'I couldn't think of everything. And besides, no, thank you!'
'Look here,' said
Mabel, 'let's just put the ring back in the treasure-room. It's time to have
done with it. l'
So they went up to the castle, and the
ring was put back among the odd ornaments that Mabel had once said were magic.
'It doesn't look magic at all!' said
Gerald. 'It's just like an old silly ring. I wonder if what Mabel said about
the other things is true! Let's try. '
 'I'd like to try,' said Mabel, 'only — I
don't remember what I said anything was.'
So had the others. Perhaps that was why,
when they invented qualities for various rings and chains and brooches, nothing
at all happened.
'It's only the ring that's magic,' said
Mabel at last; 'Oh, I say!' she added, in quite a different voice.
'What?'
'I think the ring is not magic!'
'But we know it is.'
'What ring?'
'The wishing-ring,' said Kathleen; 'the invisibility ring.
'Don't you see,' said Mabel, opening
her dark eyes very wide, 'the ring is what you say it is? That's how it made us
invisible — I just said it. Oh, we can't leave it here. It is too valuable. Say
what it is.'
'It's a wishing-ring,' said Jimmy.
'We've had that before and you had your
silly wish,' said Mabel, more and more excited. 'I say it isn't a wishing-ring.
I say it's a ring that makes the person who wears it four yards
She put the ring on her finger and at the
same moment she became indeed four yards high.
'Now you've done it!' said Gerald and he was right.
'Oh, Mabel, it was silly of you!' said Kathleen.

1 It's time to have done with it. — nopa c HWM noKOHHHTb.
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'You didn't believe me when I said
it was what I said it was,' said Mabel. 'And I had to show it to you. What
shall I do now, I should like to know?'
'We must conceal you till you get
normal,' said Gerald practically.
'Yes — but where?' said Mabel. 'I'm afraid
one of you will have to stay the night with me. I'm not going to be left alone,
the silly height I am.l'
Height was the right word; Mabel
had said 'four yards high' and she was four yards high. But she was as thin as
when her height was normal, so she looked, as Gerald said, 'like a
nice worm.' Her clothes had, of course, grown with her. She
sat down suddenly on the floor.
'It's no use sitting there,' said Gerald.
'I'm not sitting here,' said Mabel; 'I
only got down so as to be able to get through the door. I think I'll have to go
on my hands and knees through most places. Look here, I must be out of doors
before it gets dark.'
'You can't. Someone will see you.'
'No, I can creep on my front like a
snake and hide in the bushes near the dinosaur,' said Mabel. 'And we could have
a picnic
there. I'll write to auntie. She'll give you the things for a picnic.'
So she wrote on a page from Gerald's note-book:
'DEAREST AUNTIE,
'Please may we have some things for a
picnic? Gerald will bring them. I can't come myself, because I am a little
tired. I think I have been growing rather fast.2 — Your loving niece,
Mabel.
P.S. — Lot of things, please, because
some of us are very hungry.'

1
1'm not going to
be left alone, the silly height I am. — 51 He xoqy OCTaBaTbCH OAHa, XOTb ceMqac
H TaKaq AblJIAa.
2
| think I have
been growing too fast. — AY'Mmo, 3T0 110TOMY, '-ITO H CJIHUIKOM 6b1CTPO pacry.
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It was difficult, but possible, for Mabel
to creep through the bushes. When Gerald returned with a basket, her long, pale
face could be seen among the leaves, very near the ground.
'I look just like anybody else like
this, don't I?' she asked anxiously; 'all the rest of me is miles away, under
different bushes. ' 'We've covered up the parts between the bushes with
branches and leaves,' said Kathleen; 'don't move, Mabel, or you'll shake them
off.'
Jimmy was unpacking the basket. He found
there many good things: bread and butter, a bottle of milk, a bottle of water,
cake and apples.
It was a wonderful picmc. Everyone became
happy and calm. A nice after-food peace filled the summer air. I Even the stone
dinosaur seemed peaceful and happy.
'I think he liked a good meal in his day2,' said Gerald.
'Who did?'
'The dinosaur,' said Gerald.
'He had a meal today,' said Kathleen, and gigled.
'Yes,' said Mabel, giggling also.
'What do you mean a meal?' Jimmy asked suspiciously.
'Oh, don't be stupid!' said Kathleen.
'We fed the dinosaur through the hole in his stomach with the clothes the
UglyWuglies were made OP.'
'We can take them home with us, then,'
said Gerald, 'so that's all right.'
'Look here,' said Kathleen suddenly;
'I've got an idea. Let me have the ring. I'll give it back before we go.'
'Oh, but you aren't going yet!' said
Mabel. She pulled off the ring.
Kathleen took the ring and started to
run towards the dinosaur, crying, 'Let's go and take the things now.' Her idea
was

I A nice after-food peace filled the summer air. — B
JleTHeM B03nyxe ou_1YLua-qcq rlPHHTHb1M nocne06eaeHHb1ìÍ 110K0h.
2 he liked a good meal in his day — B CBoe BpeMH OH
TOXe JlK)6W1 rlOKYLI_raTb
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quite simple. She knew that a person who is not enchanted by
the ring could rename it and change its powersl. She wanted to say aloud, so
that the others could not hear her, 'This is a wishing-ring. It gives you any
wish you choose. ' And she did say it. And no one heard her, except the birds.
The way was uphill; it
was sunny, and Kathleen had run fast. So when her brothers caught her at the
dinosaur she was very hot indeed and couldn't decide calmly what to wish.
'I'll get up and move the things down,
because I know where I put them,' she said.
Gerald and Jimmy helped her to climb up,
and she disappeared through the hole into the dark inside of the monster. Then
she began to throw down clothes and sticks.
'I'm coming up to help you,' said
Gerald. Just as he got his shoulders through the opening he heard Kathleen's
boots on the floor of the dinosaur's inside, and Kathleen's voice: 'It's so
cool in here. Statues are always cool. I wish to be a statue. Oh!' The 'oh' was
a cry of horror.
'What's up?' Gerald asked. But in
his heart he knew. He climbed up inside. In the little light that came up
through the hole he could see something white. He struck a match and saw the
face of Kathleen, white, stony, and lifeless. Her hair was white, too, and her
hands, clothes, shoes— everything was white, hard and cold. Kathleen had her
wish: she was a marble statue. Gerald could not speak. It was too sudden, too
terrible. Then he turned and spoke down out of that
cold, stony silence to Jimmy, in the green, sunny live world outside.
'Jimmy,' he said, 'Kathleen's gone
and said that ring was a wishing;ring. And so it was, of course. I see now what
she was up to, running like that. And then she went and wished she was a
statue.'
'And she is?' asked Jimmy, below.
'Come up and have a look, ' said Gerald. And Jimmy came.
rename it and
change its powers — aaTb eMY apyroe Ha3BaHHe M
H3MeHMTb ero qapbl
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'She is really a statue,' he said in horror.
'Come on — let's go and tell Mabel,' said Gerald.
The two boys returned and told her the news.
'Oh, how awful! What next?' said Mabel.
'She'll come all rightl ' said Gerald, trying to be calm.
'Yes; but what about me?' asked Mabel.
'I haven't got the ring. And my time will be up before hers is.2 Could you get
it off her hand? I'll put it back on her hand when I am normal again.'
'I'm afraid the ring's turned to stone
like her boots and all her clothes. But I'll go and see.'
Gerald got inside the dinosaur, struck a
match and saw the dark ring on the white hand of the marble Kathleen. He pulled
the ring, and, to his surprise, it slipped easily off the cold marble finger.
'I say, Cathy, I am sorry,' he said.
Then he thought that perhaps she could hear him. So he told the statue exactly
what he and the others wanted to do. Then he returned to the others.
'Here's your ring,' he said to Mabel.
'Now you're not frightened of anything, are you?'
'No,' said Mabel, in surprise. 'I'll
stay here, but you must leave me all the coats, because it will be cold in the
night. Then I shall be here when Kathleen comes out of the stone again. And you
two go home and tell Mademoiselle that Kathleen's staying at the Towers.'
'But we don't know which of you will
come right first. Anyhow, we'll say good night to Mademoiselle, and come and
have a look at you before we go to bed,' said Gerald.
Mabel crept under the dinosaur, the boys
covered her with coats and left.
The sun had disappeared behind the
black trees and the moon was rismg. Mabel slept peacefully under the dinosaur.
She'll come all right — C Heii
BCë 6yaeT HOPMU1bHO
2 And my time will be up before hers is. — A MOM cpoK
KOHMHTCH paHbme, yeM ee.
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Inside the monster Kathleen, alive in her marble, slept too.
She had heard Gerald's words. She was the same Kathleen, only she was Kathleen
in a case of marble that didn't let her move. Inside, the marble was not cold
or hard, but warm and pleasantly safe. Everything was well. She had only to
wait quietly and quite comfortably when she would come out of this stone case.
So she waited calmly and then fell asleep.
When she woke she felt needles in
feet, and her arms were tired. She rubbed her eyes and remembered. She had been
a statue, a statue inside the stone dinosaur.
'Now I'm alive again,' she said, 'and I'll get out of it.'
She sat down, put her feet through the
hole, and realized that the dinosaur was moving!
'Oh!' said Kathleen inside it. 'It is
moonlight, and it's come alive, like Gerald said.'
It was indeed moving. Kathleen was afraid
to jump out of it, because the beast was moving fast. They were going downhill.
Then Kathleen heard a splash. They were close to water — the lake. Kathleen
dropped quickly out of the hole on the grass, ran sideways and stood panting in
the shadow of a statue's pedestal. A moment later the dinosaur slipped heavily
into the water, and swam towards the central island.
'Be careful, little lady. I jump!'
The voice came from the pedestal, and next moment Phoebusl had jumped from the
pedestal.
'You are new,' said Phoebus. 'I haven't seen you before.'
'I am quite new,' said Kathleen, 'And I
didn't know you could talk.'
'WIV not?' Phoebus laughed. 'You can talk.'
'But I'm alive.'
'Am I not?' he asked. 'The white water
calls me! I go.' And he jumped into the water.
Kathleen turned and went up the hill towards the bushes.
She must find Mabel, and they must go home at once. She

1 Phoebus — Oe6 (BTopoe                                     60ra
COJIHUa AnonJ10Ha)
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found Mabel very quickly, because her long and
worm-like form covered with coats and trousers could be easily seen in the
moonlight. Kathleen touched her long cheek gently, and she woke.
'What's up?' she said sleepily.
'It's only me,' Kathleen explained.
'How cold your hands are!' said Mabel.
'Wake up,' said Kathleen, 'and let's talk.
'Can't we go home now? I'm awfully tired and hungry.
'You're too long to go home yet,' said
Kathleen sadly, and then Mabel remembered.
She lay with closed eyes then she suddenly cried out:
'Oh! Cathy, I feel so funny —I'm
getting shorter. I know I am —
Mabel was really getting shorter. Her
feet were near — her long arms became shorter — her face was no longer half a
yard long.
'You are all right. Oh, I am so glad!'
cried Kathleen; 'and now we'll go home at once, dear.'
'Go home?' said Mabel, slowly sitting
up and looking at Kathleen with her big dark eyes. 'Go home like that?' 'Like
what?' Kathleen asked impatiently.
'Why, you,' was Mabel's odd answer.
'I'm all right,' said Kathleen. 'Come on.'
'Look at yourself— your hands — your
dress — everything.'
Kathleen looked at her hands. They were
of marble whiteness. Her dress, too — her shoes, her stockings, even the ends
of her hair. She was white as snow.
'What is it?' she asked, worried.
'Don't you see? You've not come right.
You're a statue still. '
'I'm not — I'm alive — I'm talking to you.'
'I know you are, darling,' said Mabel
kindly. 'That's because it's moonlight.'
'But you can see I'm alive.'
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'Of course I can. I've got the ring,'
said Mabel, taking her marble hand. 'It's moonlight, and you're a statue, and
you've just come alive with all the other statues. And when the moon goes down
you'll just be a statue again. By the way, where's the dinosaur?'
'In his bath,' said Kathleen, 'and so
are all the other stone beasts. '
'Well,' said Mabel, trying to look on
the bright side of thingsl, 'that's good news.'
Helpful Words
quality n 3ò. CBOVICTBO valuable a UeHHb1Ïf worm
n qepB¶K creep (crept, crept) v r10J13aTb giggle v XMXHKaTb fed past om feed v
KOPMHTb case n 060J10HKa splash n Bcrmecvv pant V gaCTO H THxeJIO Abili_raTb
Exercises
1
Answer the
questions.
a)
Who opened the stone door?
b)
What did Mabel understand about the magic ring?
c)
How did she prove that she was right?
d)
What letter did Mabel write to her aunt?
e)
Where did the children hide Mabel?

I trying to look on the bright side of things —
11b1TUICb coxpaHHTb orlTHMH3M
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f)
When did Kathleen become a statue?
g)
Where did Kathleen meet Phoebus?
h)
When did Mabel come right?
2
Put the sentences
in the right order.
a)
Mabel crept under the dinosaur, the boys covered her with coats
and left.
b)
Kathleen touched Mabel's long cheek gently, and she woke.
c)
Gerald and Jimmy answered the questions of their sister and
Mabel.
d)
Kathleen took the ring and started to run towards the dinosaur.
e)
Mabel put the ring on her finger and at the same moment she
became indeed four yards high.
t) Gerald and Jimmy helped their
sister to climb up inside the dinosaur.
3
Complete the
sentences.
a)
The children went up to the castle because
b)
Mabel refused to leave the nng in the treasure-room because

c)
Kathleen took the magic ring from Mabel because

d)
Kathleen jumped
out of the dinosaur because

e)
The girls couldn't go home when Mabel became normal because

4
Find in the text
the English for:
becr10J1e3H0 3Aecb CHAeTb.
Aopora 111J1a B ropy.
OH 3axer cr1HHKY.
XenaHMe K3TJIVIH HC110AHW10Cb.
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5
6
7
8
9
Tenepb rlOHMMakO, MTO OHa
3aayMœna. 9T0 xopoume HOBOCTM.
Match the verbs with the same or very close meaning.
a)
to hide1) to discover
b)
to find   2) to
conceal
c)
to laugh3) to understand
d)
to realize4) to
giggle
Fill in the prepositions among, out, into, off, for.
a)
Gerald and Jimmy called help for the first time, and that call
was at once answered form the outside.
b)
The ring was put back the odd ornaments that Mabel had once said
were magic.
c)
Mabel asked Gerald to get the ring _ Kathleen's hand.
d)
Kathleen realized that the dinosaur was moving and it was time to
get of it.
e)
A moment later the dinosaur slipped heavily _ the water.
Think of possible qualities for other rings, chains and brooches and make
up sentences.
Example: A person who wears this ring is as strong as a bear.
Imagine that you are Gerald. Say:
a)
when Mabel became four yards high
b)
what she looked like then.
Imagine that you are Kathleen. Say:
a)
why you got the magic ring.
b)
why you became a marble statue.
c)
how you felt in the marble case.
d)
what happened at moonrise.
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Part 10
'I've got an idea,' said Mabel, 'we
may find out a lot about this magic place, if the other statues aren't too
proud to talk to us. ' 'They aren't,' said Kathleen; 'at least, Phoebus wasn't.
He was very polite and nice. '
'Where is he?' Mabel asked.
'He was in the lake,' said Kathleen.
'Then let's go down there,' said Mabel.
She jumped up, but the white Kathleen did not move.
'Hello, little sister!' said a voice
behind them. They turned their heads, surprised. There in the moonlight stood
Phoebus, smiling at them, very friendly.
'Oh, it's you!' said Kathleen.
'Yes,' said Phoebus cheerfully. 'Who is your friend,
child?' 'This is Mabel,' said Kathleen.
Mabel got up and bowed, hesitated, and
held out a hand. 'I'm happy to meet you, little lady,' said Phoebus, taking her
marble fingers. 'But I don't understand how you can see us, and why you do not
fear.'
Mabel showed him the ring.
'I see,' said Phoebus; 'but if you have
that, why not become a statue and swim with us in the lake?' 'I can't swim,'
said Mabel.
'Nor yet mel,' said Kathleen.
'You can,' said Phoebus. 'All statues
that come to life are good at all sports. And you, little lady, wish yourself a
statue2 and join us.'
'You see,' said Mabel 'this ring you
wish for things, and you never know how long they're going to last. It would be
jolly to be a statue now, but not next morning.'
'You don't know the powers of your
ring,' said Phoebus. 'Wish exactly, and the ring will exactly perform. Say
this: "I wish to be a statue of living marble till the dawn". '

1
Nor yet me — H
TOXe
2
wish yourself a
statue — noxeJ1aiÍ npeBpaTHTbCH B CTaTYH)
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'Oh, yes, do, Mabel, it would be so jolly!' cried Kathleen.
'And could I swim then?'
'Swim, and laugh, and eat the food of
the gods, and listen to a beautiful song.'
'O, Mabel, do!' said Kathleen. 'I am so hungry.'
Still Mabel hesitated. Then she looked
at Kathleen's legs and suddenly said: 'Very well, I will. But first I'll take
off my shoes and stockings. Marble boots look simply awful.'
She had pulled off shoes and
stockings, then she said the wish, and there were two little live statues in
the moonlight. Tall Phoebus took a hand of each.
'Come — run!' he cried. And they ran.
They ran down the slope to the lake
and jumped into the water. They swam easily and beautifully. And it was so
lovely there. The moon was high in the sky. The willows, water-lilies, temples,
terraces and bushes made the place very romantic.
'Now one more round,' said Phoebus
kindly, 'and then we'll swim to the island.'
The island was bigger than it
seemed, and it was covered with trees and bushes. But when they passed the
trees, they saw a wide lawn, and then marble steps going down to a round pool,
where there were no water-lilies — only gold and silver fish. And the water and
marble and grass was lighted with a clear, white, light, seven times stronger
than the whitest moonlight, and in the waters of the pool seven moons
reflected. The girls looked up at the sky, almost expecting to see seven moons
there. But no, the old moon was alone there.
'There are seven moons,' said Mabel.
'Oftcourse,' said Phoebus; 'everything
in our world is seven times as much so as in yours]. Now let's join the
ladies.'
On the other side of•the pool there were
twenty or thirty figures — all statues and all alive. Some
were dipping their white
everything in our world is seven
times as much so as in yours — B HameM MHpe BCe npeBocx0AHT B ceMb pa3 TO, qTO
eCTb B BameM
MHpe
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feet among the gold and silver fish. Others were holding
hands and dancing in a ring.
'I bring two guests,' said Phoebus, coming up to the group.
The statues crowded round, stroking the girls' hair.
'Are the wreaths ready, Hebel?' the
tallest lady asked. 'Make two more!'
And almost directly Hebe came down the
steps with rosewreaths on her arms. There was one for each marble head.
The children remembered how
Mademoiselle had said that gods and goddesses always wore wreaths for meals.
Hebe herself put the roses on the
girls' heads and Aphrodite2 took them by the hands and said: 'Come, we must get
the feast ready. Eros3 — Psyche4 — Hebe — all you young people can get the
fruit.'
'I don't see any fruit,' said Kathleen.
'You must pick it like this, ' said
Psyche, lifting her marble arms to a willow branch. She showed her hand to the
children — it held a pear.
'I see,' said Mabel. 'You just — She
touched the willow branch — and they saw a big peach in her hand.
'Yes, just that,' laughed Psyche, who
was a dear, as any one could see.
After this they gathered fruit into a
few silver baskets, while the elder statues were busy getting golden glasses
and jugs and dishes from the branches of other trees and flffing them with
everything nice to eat and drink. Then everyone sat or lay down on the steps
and the feast began.
'I wonder what the boys are doing,'
said Mabel, taking the third peach.

1
Hebe — re6a,
apeBHerpeqecKaq 60rHHq BeqH0iá I-OHOCTH
2
Aphrodite —
A(bpoAHTa, apeBHerpeqecvaq 601'HHH JlK)6BH H
KPacOTb1

Eros — 3poc, apeBHerpeqecKHìÍ 60r JlK)6BH
4 Psyche —
Ilcuxeq, apeBHerpeqecKaq 601'HH51, OJIHUeTBOPfflOqeJ10BeqecKY10 aywy.
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 'At this moment,' said Hermesl who had
just returned from the flight, 'at this moment they are trying to find you near
the home of the dinosaur. They're very worried about you. ' Kathleen stood up.
'Thank you all very much,' she said. 'It
was very kind of you to have us, and we've enjoyed ourselves very much, but I
think it's time to go now.'
'If you are worried about your brothers,'
said Phoebus, 'they can easily join you. Give me your ring for a moment.'
He tookit from Kathleen's
half-reluctant hand, dipped it in the reflection of one of the seven moons, and
gave it back. 'Now,' he said, 'say what Mabel wished for herself.
Say —
'I know,' and Kathleen made her wish.
'You were too quick,' said
Phoebus. 'They are statues now, but they are not here. Hermes, bring them here
and explain things as you come.'
He dipped the ring again in one of the
reflected moons and gave it back to Kathleen.
'Now it's clean and ready for the next magic.'
It was clear that Hermes had
'explained everything' quite fully, because when marble Gerald and Jimmy
arrived, they were quite at ease2. They bowed to the goddesses and took their
places beside them.
When the feast was over, Hera turned her
eyes on the children and said: 'How did the ring come into your hands?'
'I'll tell you,' said Mabel.
'Once upon a time there was a little girl Called Mabel, ' she added and went on
with story of the enchanted castle. The marble gods listened — almost as
enchanted as the castle itself.
Hermes —
repMec, BecTHHK OJIHMflHìÍCKHX 60roB, HOKPOBMTeJ1b nacTYX0B
nyrHHK0B
2 they were
quite at ease — OHM He HYBCTBOBWIH HHKaKOFO CMYIlle-HHH
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'And so,' ended Mabel ended, 'Kathleen
wished for the boys and the Lord Hermes brought them and here we all are.'
The statues began discussing the story. When the discussion
was over, Mabel said: 'Now we want to know something.' 'What?'
'How you come alive, and how you know about the ring.'
'Tell them, Phoebus,' said Aphrodite.
So Phoebus told.
'All statues,' he said, 'can come alive when the moon shines.
But only on one night in all the year people can see them. '
'And when is that?' Gerald asked politely.
'At the festival of the harvestl,'
said Phoebes. 'And it can happen only in certain temples. One of these temples
is in this great garden.'
'Then,' said Gerald, much interested,
'if we come up to that temple on that night, we could see you, even if we are
not statues or don't have the ring?'
'Even so,' said Phoebus. 'More, we must
answer any question asked by people. '
'And the night is when?'
'Ah!' said Phoebus, and laughed.
'Wouldn't you like to know!2'
Then the great marble Zeus3 stroked his
long beard, and said: 'Enough of stories, Phoebus. Play to us.'
'But the ring,' said Mabel in a
whisper, 'how you know all about the ring?'
'Ask me again before dawn, and I will
tell you all I know of it,' the god whispered back.

1  festival of the harvest — npa3AHHK
ypoxaq (TPaAHUHOHHb1ñ npa3AHHK, KOTOPb1iá 0TMeqaeTcq B AHI'JIHH B
KOHUe ceHTq6pq HAH 1--raqa-ne OKTfl6Pfl)
2  Wouldn't you like to know! — Eu_le
6b1 Baryf He XOTeJIOCb 3T0 3HaTb!
3  Zeus — 3eBC, BePXOBHb1ii 60r y
APeBHHX rpeK0B
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Then Phoebus began to play the
lyre, and music filled the air. It was so sweet and beautiful that those who
listened forgot time and space.
And then, suddenly, the music stopped.
Phoebus stood up, crying, 'The dawn! To your pedestals, o gods!'
At once the whole crowd of beautiful
marble people ran towards the trees. Then the children heard the splash. They
heard, too, the breathing of a great beast, and knew that the dinosaur, too,
was returning to his own place.
Only Hermes had time to whisper to them with a laugh:
'In fourteen days from now, at the Temple of Strange Stones.' 'What's the
secret of the ring?' asked Mabel.
'The ring is the heart of the magic,'
said Hermes. 'Ask at the moonrise on the fourteenth day, and you shall know
all.'
And as he flew away a cold wind
began to blow, a grey light grew and grew, and the marble slipped away from the
children like a skin, and they were statues no more, but live children,
standing in long grass. There was no lawn, no marble steps, no pool with seven
moons.
'What shall we do now?' said
Mabel, shivering with cold. 'We can't swim now. And this is the island?' It
was and they couldn't swim.
'Is there a boat?' Jimmy asked.
'No,' said Mabel, 'not on this side of the lake.
'Can't anyone think of anything?' Gerald asked.
'The ring,' said Mabel. 'Of course we
can get home with the help of the ring.'
'Where is the ring?' asked Gerald.
'You had it,' Mabel said to Kathleen. 'I know I had,'
said Kathleen, 'but I gave it to Psyche to
look at and — and she put jt on her finger!'
Everyone tried not to be angry with Kathleen.
'If we ever get off this island, can you
find Psyche's statue and get it off again?' asked Gerald.
'No, I can't,' Mabel moaned. 'I don't
know where the statue is. I've never seen it.'
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'Now, look here,' said Gerald after a
long silence. 'Let's make a tour of the island. Perhaps we could find a boat.'
Quite sure that there wasn't and
couldn't be any boat, the four children started to explore the island.
The sun was already sending strong
light straight at the children's eyes. This, with the fact that he was not
looking where he was going, was the reason why
Gerald stumbled, fell down some steps that opened suddenly in the ground.
'Oh, Gerald!' called Mabel down
the steps; 'are you hurt?' 'No,' said Gerald, angrily, because he was hurt;
'it's steps, and there's a passage.'
'I knew there was a passage,' said
Mabel; 'it goes under the water and comes out at the Temple of Flora.'
'Then we can get out that way,' said Gerald's voice.
'I think it goes past the place where
the Ugly-Wugly found its good hotel.'
'It's no good,' said Jimmy weakly; 'you
know well you can't get out of that Temple of Flora door, even if you get to
it.'
'I don't know,' said Gerald, 'there can
be a secret spring inside that door.'
So the four went down the stone steps
that led to the underground and underwater passage. Then the passage took a
turn, there were more steps, down, down, and then the children saw something
that they had never thought possible. It was a great marble hall. Its roof was
held up by two rows of round pillars, and every corner of the hall was filled
with a warm, lovely light.
'How beautiful!' Kathleen whispered.
'I can't believe it's real,' said Mabel.

This hall in which the children found
themselves was the most beautiful place in the world. All round it were great
arches. And through these arches they could see many things. Through one arch
they saw an olive garden, and in it two lovers who held each other's hands,
under an Italian moon; through another a small ship on a wildsea. A third
showed a king on his throne; a fourth showed a really good hotel, with the
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spectable Ugly-Wugly sitting on the front doorsteps. There
was a mother, bending over a child's bed. There was an artist looking at the
picture he had painted, a general dying on a field of a battle he had won. And
these things were not pictures, but true life.
There were many other pictures, and
all showed the best moments in people's lives. And the really good hotel had
its place here too, because there are some souls that ask nothing more than 'a
really good hotel'.
They went slowly up the hall, and
at the end of it the children saw where the light came from. It came from one
statue that Mabel 'did not know where to find' — the statue of Psyche. They
went on slowly, quite happy. And when they came close to Psyche they saw the
ring on her hand.
Gerald put his knee on the pedestal. 'I
hope you don't mind,' he said, and drew the ring off very gently.
Then they passed behind the white
Psyche, and came to a dark passage that led from the hall. Kathleen said, 'Give
me the ring. I know exactly what to say.' Gerald gave it reluctantly.
'I wish,' said Kathleen slowly, 'that we
were safe in our own beds, undressed, and in our nightgowns, and asleep.
And the next moment they were all
in their own beds. Mabel's own bed was, of course, at Yalding Towers, and to
this day Mabel's aunt cannot understand how Mabel, who was staying the night in
the town was in her bed in the morning.
Helpful Words
bow v
last v AllHTbCH willow n HBa reflect v OTPaxaTbCq dip V
Ok'YHaTb stroke v rnaAHTb, JHCKaTb
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wreath n BeHOK lyre n JIHpa space n npocTpaHcTB0 shiver
v apoxaTb stumble Y Cr10Tb1KaTbCfl wild a 6YPHb1ñ bend (bent, bent) v
Cru6aTb(Cfl)
Exercises
1
Answer the
questions.
a)
Where did Phoebus invite the girls?
b)
How did the gods meet them?
c)
Where did the gods get the food and drinks?
d)
Why did Phoebus dip the ring in the reflection of one of the
seven moons?
e)
When did the feast end?
f)
How did the children get into the underground passage?
g)
What did they see in the hall?
2
Say who:
a)
pulled off her shoes and stockings.
b)
was dancing in a ring.
c)
showed the girls
how to pick up fruit.
d)
brought Gerald and Jimmy to the island.
e)
told the story of the enchanted castle and the ring.
f)
played the lyre.
g)
drew the ring off Psyche's hand.
3
Complete the
sentences.
a)
Kathleen and Mabel could easily swim in the lake because

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b)
The girls looked up at the sky almost expecting to see seven
moons but

c)
Kathleen wanted to get back to the dinosaur because

d)
The gods didn't tell the children about the secret of the ring
because

e)
The children didn't have the magic ring because

4
Find in the text
the English for:
eue OAHH Kpyr
KaK KOJIbU0 nona.no K Bars,' B PYKM?
Mbl npMHTH0 np0BeJIH BPeMH. Tbl yu.1H6cq?
5
Complete the
chart.
          easy                 easier               the
easiest              easily
beautifully
well
6
Fill in the gaps
with the verbs in Past Simple.

to bow to fill to slip to stroke to
show

a)
Zeus his
long beard and asked Phoebus to play a song.
b)
At dawn the marble away from the children like a skin.
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c)
The pictures in the hallthe best moments in people's
lives.
d)
Gerald and Jimmyto the goddesses and took their places
beside them.
e)
Then Phoebus began to play the lyre, and music the air.

7
Say which word
does not go with the others and why.
a)
peach, apple,
cabbage, pear
b)
ring, wreath, crown, brooch
c)
water-lily, rose, carnation, lily d) marble, grass, moonlight,
water
8
Draw a map of the
island. Describe it.
9
Imagine that you
are Mabel. Say:
a)
who invited you to the island.
b)
what made you accept (TIPHH¶Tb) the invitation.
c)
how you got to the island.
d)
what the gods and goddesses were doing when you came there.
e)
how you spent the night with the gods.
10
Are you good at
sports? What sports do you prefer? What sporting events (CllOPTHBœe
coÕNTHq) do you watch on TV?

Part 11
It was show-day at Yalding Castle,
and the children decided to go and visit Mabel. There were more visitors than
usual today because many people knew that Lord Yalding, who was in the castle,
wanted to show the place in all its fantastic beauty to a rich American who
wished to rent it.
It certainly looked very splendid.
Mabel's aunt had taken the covers off the furniture and put flowers in the
rooms.
All the afternoon the crowd in its smart holiday clothes,
pink blouses, and light-coloured suits, and summer hats passed through and
through the dark hall, the magnificent drawing-rooms and bedrooms and
pictuœ-galleries. The sounds of boots and high-heeled shoesl, laughter and
loud voices could be heard everywhere.
              high-heeled
shoes —                           Ha BblCOKHX Ka6JIYKax
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'I hate to see all these people in our
garden,' said Gerald, as the children watched the visitors from the window of
the stone summer-house at the end of the terrace.
'I said that to that nice man this
morning,' said Mabel, 'and he said it wasn't much to let them come once a
weekl.
'Did he say anything else?' asked Jimmy:
'A lot of things,' said Mabel. 'I told
him about our adventures. '
'Oh, no!'
'And he thinks I've got a real literary talent.'
'I say, I forgot to tell you, but I met
Mademoiselle and she's coming to meet us and walk back with us,' said Gerald.
'It may be kind, but now we shall have to
sit here and wait for her,' said Mabel, 'and I promised we'd meet that man.
He's going to bring things in a basket and have a picnic-tea with us.'
'Where?'
'Beside the dinosaur.'
'When?'
'As soon as the gates shut. That's five.'
'We might take Mademoiselle to the
picnic,' suggested Gerald.
'You can't tell what she will think
about it,' said Kathleen. 'Well, I'll tell you what,' said Gerald, lazily
turning on the stone bench. 'You all go there and meet your man. A picnic's a
picnic. And I'll wait for Mademoiselle.'
Mabel said that this was jolly decent of
Gerald. Jimmy added that Gerald liked to suck up to people.
'Little boys don't understand
diplomacy, ' said Gerald calmly; 'You never know when a grown-up may be useful.
Besides, they like it. You must give them some little pleasures. '
'All right,' said Mabel, 'come on, Cathy, Jimmy.'
It was a sunny summer day. When the
children reached the dinosaur, they were very hot. The man looked very nice,
it wasn't much to let them come once a week — He crpa111H0,
eCJIH 6yayr rlPHX011HTb cnxa pa3 B 1--leaemo
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the girls thought. He was wearing a grey summer suit,
a pretty green tie and a straw hat. He welcomed the children warmly. And there
were two promising baskets under the trees.
He was a man of tact.
'You must be thirsty and hungry,' he
said, 'We'll have tea, but first you can take off your shoes and stockings;
there's a little canal right there.'
It was very pleasant to dip feet in cool
water after a hot walk. When they came back, they had tea with milk and cakes,
and fruit.
Jimmy was much impressed with it and he
suddenly said: 'Your feast's as good as the feast of the gods, almost.'
'What do you mean?' asked the host;
and Jimmy told him the whole story of that wonderful night when the statues
came alive, and they had a feast with them.
The man smiled: 'Did you get all this out of a book?'
'No,' said Jimmy, 'it happened;
everything I've told you did happen, and so did the things Mabel told you.'
The man looked a little uncomfortable.
'All right,' he said. And there was a short silence.
'Look here,' said Jimmy. 'Do you believe me or not?' 'Don't
be silly, Jimmy!' Kathleen whispered.
'I think you tell adventures vew well, ' said the man
calmly.
'Very well,' said Jimmy, sitting up, 'you
don't believe me. 'Cathy, give me the ring.'
'Oh, no!' said the girls together.
They did not want to give the ring to
Jimmy, but they couldn't stop him. It was his hour.
'Now,' said Jimmy, 'this is the
ring Mabel told you about. I say it is a wishing-ring. And if you put it on
your finger and wish, everything you wish will happen.'
'Don't wish for anything silly,' said
Kathleen. 'Wish for something you really want. '
'I'll wish for the only thing I really
want,' said the man. 'I wish my friend were here.'
The three who knew the power of
the ring looked round to see the man's friend, but they only saw Mademoiselle and
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ald. Mademoiselle was wearing a white dress, looking quite
nice and like a picture, and Gerald was hot and polite.
'Good afternoon,' said Gerald. 'I
persuaded Mademoiselle —
That sentence was never finished,
because the man and the French teacher were looking at each other 'like stuck
pigs'l, as Jimmy said later.
'Is she your friend?' Jimmy asked.
'Oh yes,' said the man. 'You are my friend, are you not?'
'But yes,' Mademoiselle said kindly. 'I am your friend.'
'There! you see,' said Jimmy, 'the ring
does do what I said. ' 'You can say it's the ring. For me it's the happiest
coincidence,' said the man. 'Jimmy, give your brother some tea. Mademoiselle,
come and walk in the woods. I would like to talk to you. ' 'Yes, we must speak
to each other,' said Mademoiselle, 'I haven't seen Lord Yalding for a long
time!'
'So he was Lord Yalding all the time,'
said Jimmy, as the white dress and the grey suit disappeared in the wood. 'And
she is his friend.
'His friend!' said Mabel with strong
scorn; 'don't you see she's his lover? She's the lady that had gone into a
convent, and he couldn't find her. And now the ring's made them happy.'
Mabel was right about Mademoiselle. Her
guardian was against her marriage to a poor lord and had put her in a convent.
Then he disappeared in South America with all her money, and Mademoiselle had
to work. She became a teacher and came to that school because it was near Lord
Yalding's home.
Next morning Mademoiselle looked a
different person. Her cheeks were pink, her lips were red, and her eyes were
larger and brighter.
Immediately after breakfast Lord Yalding invited the whole party to
Yalding Towers.
The children decided to explore the castle.
Lord Yalding gave his permission, and together with Mademoiselle he went

1 'like stuck pigs' — «CJIOBHO rlPHIUH6neHHbIe»
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out for a walk in the garden. Mabel showed the others all
the secret doors and passages and stairs that she had discovered. When they
were coming out of a little secret room they suddenly met an odd little man who
had a beard like a goat.
 'This part of the castle is private,'
said Mabel and shut the door behind her.
'I know that,' said the stranger, 'but I
have the permission of the Lord Yalding to see the house.'
'Oh!' said Mabel. 'I'm sorry. We didn't know.'
The gentleman was thin and well-dressed;
he had small, quick eyes and a brown face.
          'You
are playing some game?
'No, sir,' said Gerald, 'only exploring.'
'May I join your expedition?' asked the gentleman, smiling.
The children looked at each other.
'We can't take you because we don't know
what you want to find here,' said Jimmy.
'I understand your position,' said the gentleman. 'I have come
to this country because I want to rent a nice house. My name is Jefferson D.
Conway.'
'Oh!' said Mabel; 'then you're the
American millionaire.' 'Not yet, young lady,' said Mr Jefferson D. Conway. 'Now
let's start our tour.'
Mabel led the millionaire through the
castle. He seemed pleased, but at the same time disappointed too.
'It is a fine castle,' he said at
last when they returned to the state bedroom; 'but isn't there a secret passage
or a ghost?' 'There are;' said Mabel, 'if you were sleep in this room, I
expect-you'll see the ghost,' said Mabel.
'There is a ghost here then?' he said
with enthusiasm. 'Yes,' Mabel answered, 'old Sir Rupert, who lost his head long
ago, walks at night here, with his head under his arm.'
'Well,' said the American with a smile,
'I'll ask the Lord Yalding to let me pass a night in his state bedroom. And if
I hear a ghost's footsteps, I'll take the place.' 'I am glad!' said Kathleen.
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'You are very certain of your ghostl,'
said the American suspiciously. 'Let me tell you, young gentlemen, that I
carry' a gun, and when I see a ghost, I shoot.' And he pulled a pistol out of
his pocket. 'Thank you for all your kindness.'
'If the American rents the castle, he'll
pay Lord Yalding a good rent, and then he could marry the French teacher,' said
Mabel. 'We must make a ghost for him.'
Later that evening Lord Yalding suddenly appeared at school again and
said: 'Mr Jefferson Conway wants you boys to spend the night with him in the
state chamber. You don't mind, do you? He thinks you've got some idea of
playing ghost-tricks on him2. '
It was impossible to refuse, though the
boys were reluctant to see Sir Rupert's ghost.
As soon as Mabel learned from her aunt
that Mr Jefferson D. Conway would sleep at the castle that night, she found
Lord
Yalding and got the ring back. Then she said a wish, 'that
Sir Rupert and his head may appear tonight in the state bedroom.'
Gerald and Jimmy were awakened by a
pistol shot. In the dark state bedroom lighted by six tall candles they saw the
American with a pistol in his hand; and at the door a figure — and no head! The
head, sure enough, was there; but it was under the right arm. The face looking
from under the arm was pleasantly smiling. Both boys screamed. The American
shot again. The bullet passed through Sir Rupert, who didn't notice it.
Then, suddenly, it was morning. The
American was gone. 'Perhaps you'll believe in the ring now,' said Jimmy to Lord
Yalding, whom he met later on in the picture-gallery; 'it's all our doing3 that
Mr Jefferson saw the ghost. He told us he'd take the house if he saw a ghost,
so of course he did see one.'

1
You're very
certain of your ghost — Bbl oqeHb YBepeHbI B CBOeM npHBHaeHHM
2
you've got some
idea of playing ghost-tricks on him — Bbl XOTWre pa3bIrpaTb ero, H306paxaq
rlPHBHneHHe

3
it's all our
doing — 3TO MH Y'CTPOWIM
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'Oh, you did, did you?' said Lord Yalding
in rather an odd voice. 'Perhaps you'll be interested to learn, Mr Jefferson D.
Conway was so pleased with your ghost that he got me out of bed at six o'clock
this morning to talk about it. '
'Oh!' said Jimmy. 'What did he say?'
'He said, as far as I can remember,'
said Lord Yalding, in the same strange voice — 'he said: "My lord, I like
your castle and the park, but I don't like your ancestors. They walk at night
with their heads under their arms. I don't mind a ghost that sighs. But a ghost
that stands with its head under his arm smiling when bullets go through it —
no! If this is a British family ghost, excuse me!" And he went off by the
early train.'
'I am sorry, said Jimmy remarked, 'we
thought it would be just what you wanted. And perhaps someone else will take
the house. '
'I don't know anyone else rich enough,' said Lord Yalding.
'I say —' Jimmy looked up at Lord
Yalding with a new idea. 'If you need money, why don't you sell your jewels?'
'I haven't any jewels,' said Lord Yalding and began to walk
away.
'I mean the ones in the panelled room
with the stars in the ceiling,' Jimmy insisted, following him.
'There aren't any,' said Lord Yalding
shortly; 'and I don't want to hear any of this nonsense.'
'It's not nonsense,' said Mabel,
appearing together with Mademoiselle. 'You just come and see.'
'Let us see what they want to
show us,' said Mademoiselle. So they went, Mabel and Jimmy leading, while
Mademoiselle and Lord Yalding followed, hand in hand.
Helpful Words
rent n 11J1aTa 3a apeHAy; v apeHAOBaTb smart a Hap¶AHb1Vf
summer-house n 6eceAKa suck up (to) phr v HOWIH3b1BaTbCfl (K)
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persuade v y6exuaTb coincidence n coBnaneHHe scorn
n npe3peHHe guardian n oneKYH state a 3ò.
napaAHb1M shoot (shot, shot) v CTPeJIHTb bullet n ancestor n npeaoK sigh
v B3Ab1XaTb
Exercises
1
Answer the
questions.
a)
Why did the children go to the castle?
b)
Why didn't they
like so many visitors at Yalding Towers?
c)
Where did they have the picnic?
d)
What did Jimmy do when the stranger didn't believe his story?
e)
When did the children find out that the stranger was Lord
Yalding?
f)
When did the children explore the castle?
g)
Who joined their tour of the castle?
h)
Did the American rent the place?
2
Put the sentences
in the right order.
a)
Immediately after breakfast Lord Yalding invited the whole party
to Yalding Towers.
b)
The face looking from under the arm was pleasantly smiling.
c)
Mabel led the millionaire through the castle.
d)
Mademoiselle was wearing a white dress, looking quite nice and
like a picture, and Gerald was hot and polite. e) Mabel's aunt had taken the
covers off the furniture and put flowers in the rooms.
t) When they came back, they had tea
with milk and cakes, and fruit.
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g) When the children reached the
dinosaur, they were very hot.
3
   Choose the right ending.
a)
There were many visitors at Yalding Towers because
l) it was the first show-day that year.
2)
Lord Yalding wanted to show it in all its beauty to a man who
could rent it.
3)
it was the time when the garden was fantastically beautiful.
b)
Gerald stayed in the summer-house to wait for Mademoiselle
because
l) he didn't want to walk in the sun.
2)
he didn't like the stranger. 3) he had promised to do so.
c)
The children made a ghost for Mr Jefferson D. Conway l) to get
rid of the unpleasant man.
2)
to make him rent the castle and pay Lord Yalding a good rent.
3)
to show Lord Yalding his famous ancestor.
d)
The rich American left the castle early in the morning because
1)
the rent was too
high.
2)
the castle was
too big for him. 3) he didn't like the ghost. 4 Find in the text the English
for:
COJIOMeHHaq
unqna
B 3TY qaCTb
3aMKa 110CeTHTeMIM BXOA 3anpeueH.
OH BblTaLUW1 Mel-M H3 TIOCTeJIH.
110WIH3b1BaTbCH K
5          Put the verbs
in the right form.
a)
Mabel showed her friends all secret doors and passages she (to
discover).

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b)
When they  (to
come) out of a little secret room they suddenly met an odd little man who had a
beard like a goat.
c)
'We must speak to each other. I  (to see) Lord Yalding for a long
time,' said Mademoiselle.
d)
The American  (to shoot) again. 6 Prove that I.nrd
Yalding was a grateful man and a man of tact.
7
Gerald said:
"You never know when a grown-up may be useful... You must give them some
little pleasures." Do you agree with him? Was it diplomacy or was he
really sucking up? Give your opinion.
8
Tell the story of
Mademoiselle. Say how she changed after her meeting with Lord Yalding.
9
Imagine that you
are Jimmy. Speak of Mr Jefferson D. Conway.
a)
Say when you met him for the first time.
b)
Describe his appearance.
c)
Say why you decided to make a ghost for him.
d)
Say what you saw that night.
e)
Say what happened in the morning.
f)
Say where you took Lord Yalding and Mademoiselle and why.
Part 12
The procession entered the little panelled room.
'There's a secret spring here
somewhere,' said Mabel, trying to find it.
'Where?' said Lord Yalding.
•Here,' said Mabel impatiently, 'only I can't find it.'
And she couldn't. Mabel's
careful fingers felt the whole panelling. The spring was simply not there.
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'You see!' said Lord Yalding severely.
'I've had enough of this silly business. Give me the ring; it's mine, as you
found it somewhere here and don't say another word about all this rubbish of
magic and enchantment.'
'Gerald's got the ring,' said Mabel miserably.
'Then go and find him, ' said Lord Yalding — 'both of you.
' Soon the four children carne back together.
'They don't believe about the jewels, '
said Mabel, suddenly in tears, 'and I can't find the spring. It was here, and
—'
Her fingers felt it as she spoke; and as
she stopped speaking the panels opened, and everyone saw the shelves full of
jewels.
'My God!' said Lord Yalding and Mademoiselle.
'But why now?' asked Mabel. 'Why not before?'
'I think it's magic,' said Gerald.
'There's no real spring here, and it couldn't act because the ring wasn't here.
Phoebus told us the ring was the heart of all the magic.'
Gerald gave the ring to Lord Yalding.
Soon the children and Mademoiselle returned to school.
In the evening and at breakfast
Mademoiselle was happy and kind. Then Lord Yalding came to see her. The meeting
took place in the drawing-room. Soon Lord Yalding went out of the drawing-room
leaving the door open, and Gerald, going up to his room for a pencil, heard the
sobs. Mademoiselle was quite certainly crying.
'They're beginning to quarrel already!'
he said to himself. He went into the drawing-room, shutting the door behind
him.
'It is all over,' Mademoiselle was
saying, 'he will not marry me!'
Gerald was certain that the
matter was somehow the fault of that ring. And in this Gerald was right. As you
remember Gerald had very pretty ways with grown-upsl when he wanted. So he
persuaded her to tell him what had happened.
Gerald had
very pretty ways with grown-ups — AxepaJ1bA OTJIHHHO 06X0AHTbcq CO B3POCJIb1MH
121
The story, as told by Mademoiselle, was
certainly an unusual one. Lord Yalding, last night after dinner, had walked in
the park —'
'I know,' said Gerald; 'and he had the ring on. And he
saw
'He saw the monuments become alive,'
sobbed Mademoiselle; 'He remembered your story and wished himself a statue.
Then he swam in the lake and had a feast with gods on an island. At dawn he
became a real man again. He says that it's not a dream; he thinks that he's
mad. And a mad man must not marry. There is no hope.'
'There is,' said Gerald. 'He's not mad,
and it's not a dream. It's magic. Did he talk to the gods?'
'This is the most mad of all his ideas.
He says that the gods asked him to come to some temple tomorrow when the moon
rises. ' 'Right,' cried Gerald, 'Dear nice, kind, pretty Mademoiselle, stop
crying. Tomorrow he will go to that temple. We will go. He'll see that he isn't
mad, and you'll understand all about everything.'
Mademoiselle half sobbed, half smiled
and said: 'Is it some of your tricks, like the ghost?'
'I can't explain,' said Gerald, 'but
everything is going to be exactly what you Wish. '
'I believe you,' said Mademoiselle.
And now it is near moonrise. The French
teacher and the four children are going over the grass. They go across the lawn
and through the wood and come at last to a ring of big stones. It is the Temple
of Strange Stones. In the middle of the circle there is a great flat stone.
Something dark moves in the circle. Mademoiselle goes to it and takes its arm.
It is Lord Yalding, and he is telling her to go.
'Never!' she cries. 'If you are mad, I
am mad too, because I believe the story these children tell. And I am here to
be with you. '
The children, holding hands near the
flat stone, listen, trying not to listen.
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'Are you not afraid?' Lord Yalding is saying.
Gerald goes to them to say: 'You
can't be afraid ifyou are wearing the ring. And I'm sorry, but we can hear
every word you say.'
She laughs again. 'It doesn't matter,'
she says, 'you already know that we love each other.'
Then Lord Yalding puts the ring on her
finger, and they stand together.
Then the first moonbeam touches
the far end of the central stone, now it gets nearer and nearer to the middle
of it, now at last it touches the very heart and centre of that great stone.
And a fountain of light comes out of it. Everything changes. There are
no more secrets. There is no time or space. It is a moment and it is eternity.
At that moment six people saw many
moving shapes. The great beasts came first, strange forms that were when the
world was newl — gigantic dinosaurs, mammoths, strange birds. Then, not from
the garden but from very far away, came the stone gods of Egypt with the heads
of animals and birds, all in stone, and all alive; figures of angels with
wings, sphinxes, idols from Southern islands; and, last of all, the beautiful
marble shapes of the gods and goddesses whom they had seen on the lake-island.
The children had thought to ask
many questions, but now no one spoke a word, because they were in the circle of
the real magic where all things are understood without speech.
All the stone creatures gathered
round the stone. Then all the faces turned upward and cried one word: 'The
light!' And the sound of their voice was like the sound of a great wave.
And then the light disappeared, and with
it disappeared all the stone Tlgures.

I want to go to the cave on the island,' said the
French girl. Very quietly they went down to the boat-house, crossed the lake in
a boat and came to the island. Then they found the steps. They went down into
the Hall of Psyche.

I when the world was new — B
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It was the Hall of Granted Wishesl.
'The ring,' said Lord Yalding.
'The ring,' said his lover, 'is the
magic ring given long ago to people, and it is what you say it is. A lady of my
house gave it to your ancestor and asked him to build her a garden and a house
like her own palace and garden in her own land. This place is built partly by
his love and partly by that magic. She never lived to see it; that was the
price of the magic.'
'Only one wish is left now,' her voice went on. 'Shall I
wish?' 'Yes — wish,' they said, all of them.
'I wish, then,' said Lord Yalding's lover,
'that all the magic this ring has done may be undone2, and that the ring itself
may be just a symbol of our love.'
As soon as she said these words the
enchanted light and the windows of granted wishes disappeared. And where
Psyche's statue had been was a stone.
'It is her grave,' the girl said.
Next day no one could remember
anything at all exactly. But many things were changed. When Mademoiselle woke
in her own bed in the morning she had in her hand not the magic ring but the
plain gold ring (later it was used in the wedding ceremony). More than half the
jewels in the panelled room were gone, and those that remained lay just on the
shelves. There was no passage at the back of the Temple of Flora. Quite a lot
of the secret passages and hidden rooms had disappeared. And there were fewer
statues in the garden. However, the jewels that were left were quite enough to
pay for everything.
All the ring-magic was undone so
suddenly that it was difficult to believe that any magic had ever happened. But
how then could you explain the paragraph, which appeared in the evening papers
the day after the magic of the moon-rising?
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Granted Wishes — 3aJ1 C6bIBUMXCH XenaHHiá
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124
'MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A
WELLKNOWN BUSINESSMAN'
'Mr U. W. Ugli,' the papers said, 'had
remained late, working at his office. When in the morning the office door was
opened, the police found the clothes of this gentleman on the floor, together
with an umbrella, a walking stick and a golf club. His body was not found.'
Helpful Words
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adv cTporo miserably adv XUIOÕHO fault n BHHa nat a n-nOCKMM moonbeam n
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Exercises
1
Answer the
questions.
b) Who brought the magic ring into the treasure-room?
a)
When did Lord Yalding come to see Mademoiselle?
c)
What happened when he left?
d)
Who persuaded Mademoiselle to say what had happened?
e)
What did the people see at the Temple of Strange Stones?
f)
What did the stone creatures do?
g)
What happened in the Hall of Granted Wishes?
h)
What was the wish of Lord Yalding's lover?
i)
What things were changed the next day?
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2
Say why:
a)
Mabel couldn't find the secret spring.
b)
Mademoselle was crying after the meeting with Lord Yalding.
c)
Gerald went into the drawing-room, shutting the door behind him.
d)
Mademoiselle refused to leave Lord Yalding at the Temple of
Strange Stones.
e)
the children didn't ask any questions there.
3
Put the sentences
in the right order.
a)
As soon as she said these words the enchanted light and the
windows of granted wishes disappeared.
b)
Quite a lot of the secret passages and hidden rooms had
disappeared.
c)
The procession entered the little panelled room.
d)
And then the light disappeared, and with it disappeared all the
stone figures.
e)
Very quietly they went down to the boat-house, crossed the lake
in a boat and came to the island.
f)
All the stone creatures gathered round the stone.
g)
Gerald gave the
ring to Lord Yalding.
4
Find in the text
the English for:
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5
Fill in the
prepositions for, on, by, of, with.
a)
As she stopped speaking the panels opened, and everyone
saw the shelves full jewels.
b)
Gerald had very pretty ways grown-ups when he wanted.
126
c)
Then he swam in the lake and had a feast with gods  an island.
d)
This place was built partly  his love and partly  that magic.
e)
The jewels that were left were quite enough to pay  everything.
6
Choose right.
a)
There/lt is a secret spring here somewhere.
b)
In the middle of the circle it/there is a great flat stone.
c)
There/lt is no time or space.
d)
It/There is a moment and it/there is eternity.
e)
It/There is her
grave.
7
Write the words
in the singular form.
Example: shelves — a shelf
Jewels, children, sobs, tears, idols, steps, secrets.
8
Describe the
scene at the Temple of Strange Stones. What can you say about the stone
creatures? What do they have in common?
9
Say what you
learned about the magic ring. What things at Yalding Towers disappeared with
the magic ring? What did the magic bring into the life of the children,
Mademoiselle, Lord Yalding?
10
Finäl discussion.
a)
Did you like the
book?
b)
Which characters of the book do you like best of all?
Why'?
c)
What do you think of the end of this book? Can you think of a
different end?
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