- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни національний педагогічний університет імені м. П. Драгоманова
- •Way to fluent English
- •Contents
- •Environmental protection
- •1. Read and translate the texts and new phrases.
- •1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- •3. Write the questions to the text and discuss it in the class.
- •4. Match a new word with its definition.
- •5. Fill in missed letters:
- •6. Write your ides and suggestions about what you can do to reduce global warming:
- •7. Read and translate the text and then proceed to the tasks.
- •8. Answer the following questions:
- •9. Make up a dialogue using all new words and phrases from this module:
- •10. Read and translate new words and the text: Freshwater Becoming More Scarce.
- •11. Find the synonyms to the words from the text:
- •12. Answer the questions:
- •13. Complete the sentences.
- •14. Translate and explain what these words mean:
- •15. Discuss these questions in a group:
- •16. Read and translate new words and the text:What’s For Dinner? Genetically. Modified Foods
- •17. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
- •18. Find the opposite in the text.
- •19. Find the synonyms in the text.
- •20. Find out in the text English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:
- •21. Write the question to the text and discuss it in the class.
- •22. Fill in the sentences with the missed words.
- •23. Match word or word combination with its definition
- •24. Answer the following questions:
- •25. Write 10 advantages and 10 disadvantages about having a big family and compare your answers with your group mates.
- •26. Read, translate and retell the text. Are Dishwashers Good for the Environment?
- •27. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences:
- •28. Readers Respond: What are you doing to help reduce global warming and save the environment? Read the comments from the site http://environment.About.Com. Global warming.
- •Type 0 Conditionals: certainty, general truth
- •If you mix yellow and blue, you get green.
- •If I’m suffering the Web, I use Google. Type 1 Conditionals: real present
- •If you feel lucky, you’ll expect good things.
- •If you study, you’ll pass the test. Practice
- •Type 2 Conditionals: unreal present
- •3. Complete the sentences using the most appropriate verb form from the list (Type 2 conditionals).
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. Answer the questions according to what you understand from the sentences. Choose the correct answer: Yes, No or possibly.
- •5. What would you do If you were … ? Answer the questions using present or future unreal conditional. Discuss your answers with your classmates.
- •Type 3 Conditionals: unreal past
- •Practice
- •7. Translate the sentences into English.
- •Mixed Conditionals
- •Practice
- •1. Translate the sentences into English
- •Wishes (If only)
- •I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
- •Practice
- •Check yourself
- •Reading for pleasure Sir Walter Scott
- •Exercises
- •Is it truth that young man has really forgotten the name of the 6th knight?
- •9. Read abstract I. For questions (1 – 5) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •10. Read the abstract III. Your task is to put the statements (a - g) to (6 - 13) in correct order according to what the text says.
- •11. Read the abstract III. Choose from (a-g) the one which best fits each space (14 - 19).
- •Sport and games
- •1. Read and learn by heart the word list: Word List on the Subject “Sport and Games”
- •2. Read, translate and retell the text, given below, using the word list Sport and Games
- •3. Read and learn by heart word list:
- •4. Give names for the illustrated sports, using supplementary word list and word combinations:
- •5. Read the words and learn their meaning:
- •Indoor games
- •6. Match the following sports with the right pictures, using supplementary word list and word combinations:
- •7. Read these words and expressions, and learn them by heart:
- •8. Read the dialogues, translate them and choose one of them for learning by heart: Game and Sport
- •The Fitness Craze
- •9. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •10. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •11. Complete the following sentences with the words or phrases from the list below.
- •12. Complete these expressions using the things on the right.
- •13. Read, translate the text. Explain the words giving in the text. Answer the following questions.
- •14. Make up a short dialogue about Olympic Games, using the text, and retell it in pairs:
- •15. Fill in prepositions, if necessary, and explain:
- •16. Translate and retell the text.
- •17. Read and translate the text, given below. Speak on: “The role of sport in modern life”.” Sport as part of school and college life”. How healthy are you?
- •18. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •19. Read and translate the text, given below. Answer the questions, which are given under the text.
- •20. Match each word in column a with a word from column b, and translate each word:
- •21. Match each word in the left-hand column with the appropriate meaning from the right-hand column:
- •22. Read and translate the text, given below. Answer the questions: Sports in Great Britain
- •23. There are 16 sports in this puzzle. Can you find them?
- •24. Write a short description of your favourite sport giving the following information:
- •25. Memorize some idioms or idiomatic expressions dealing with the topic “Sport and Games”:
- •26. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •Grammar spot Wishes (If only)
- •I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
- •Practice
- •Reading for pleasure Charles Dickens
- •Dombey and Son Part II
- •Part II
- •Exercises
- •9. Read and complete the text below. For each of the empty space (12-20) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •10. Read the abstract below. For each of the empty space (17-21) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •Health protection
- •1. A. Read and translate the text. Bedside manner and something more? …
- •2. Discuss with your group mates the famous proverb “To err is human”. Can this proverb be applied to the sphere of medicine and health? Do doctors have a right to be mistaken?
- •3. What is your opinion about health insurance? Do you consider it to be necessary in modern society? Give your reasons.
- •4. Explain the meaning of the following words:
- •5. Expressions with the word finger. Match the expressions with their definitions:
- •6. Look at the idioms above. Make a short story, using as much of them as you can. Retell the story to your group mates:
- •7. Fill in proper word:
- •8. Retell the text from ex.7, using the words underlined.
- •9. Write an article on the topic “The impact of the drugs on the human organism”.
- •10. Study the short articles below. Make your own notes about popular consumers’ goods nowadays and their impact on our health:
- •11. Comment on the texts given above. Express your opinion on the subject. Act out dialogues, using new words and thematic vocabulary.
- •12. Prepare a report about junk food and the impact of it’s consuming. Present it in front of the group.
- •14. A. Study the material about junk food. Discuss it in class.
- •Marketing
- •Pregnancy
- •15. Write an article about the problem of junk and unhealthy food in Ukraine. Use the words given in the texts above.
- •16. Rewrite the following sentences and replace the words in bold with phrases from the list:
- •17. Make up your own sentences with the idioms from ex/16:
- •18. A. Read and translate the texts. Blood pressure
- •19. Mind the vocabulary. Write and act out a dialogue on the topic “At the doctor’s”. Use phrases below as a model:
- •20. Match the sympthoms with the replies of the doctor:
- •21. Choose the right answer:
- •22. Read to the complaints below. If you were a doctor what would be your recommendations?
- •23. Study the idioms. Work with the vocabulary and find translation if you can’t guess:
- •24. Write a story, using all the idioms given in ex/23, present it in front of the group:
- •25. Fill in the correct word from the list, there’s 1 extra word:
- •26. Read and translate the text: healthy lifestyle
- •27. A. Find words and word-combinations that correspond to the following meaning:
- •28. Correct mistakes: Healthy Lifestyle
- •29. Write 8 questions to the text, use different types of questions:
- •30. Imagine that you are a doctor. Now you are to give advice to your patient about how to change the lifestyle. Make a dialog, using words and word-combinations from the text.
- •31. Write a timetable of a person who leads a healthy way of life. Discuss it with your groupmates. Grammar spot
- •1. Open the brackets using unreal past.
- •2. W rite sentences with an if-clause.
- •3. Open the brackets using unreal past.
- •5. Rewrite the sentences using unreal past
- •6. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •10. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •Reading for pleasure Oscar Wilde
- •The Happy Prince
- •Exercises
- •1. For questions (1-5) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •2. Your task is to put the statements (a - f) to (6-11) in correct order according to what the text says.
- •4. Act the dialogues
- •Love & Marriage
- •Vocabulary:
- •Finding a partner
- •1. There are 15 words connected with marriage. Find them and solve a puzzle.
- •2. Complete the sentences.
- •3. Using this proverb “a great dowry is a bed full of brambles” (“Лучше на убогой жениться, чем с богатой браниться”) make up the story of your own.
- •4. Find the synonyms to the words.
- •5. Find the opposite in the text.
- •6. Describe the picture using the following idioms:
- •1. Unknown words
- •2. Read the text.
- •1. Guessing the riddle.
- •Being in love
- •1. Read all these statements and discuss them in pairs. Battlefield or bed of roses?
- •2. Read these dialogues; explain Dave’s and Brad’s relationships. After discussion make up your own stories connected with topic: “Being in love”.
- •It's as plain as the nose on your face!
- •A chance for romance.
- •3. Romantic quiz
- •4. Love hearts
- •5. Look at the picture. Image your future wedding. Tell us a beautiful story about your white wedding. Try to use all new words, what we have learnt and these proverbs:
- •6. Look at the pictures of Marriages signs, listen to their descriptions, try to guess what it is and say it in one word.
- •Wedding Customs
- •True love
- •On the way to the wedding
- •1. Task: Make a presentation with using all new words you have learnt.
- •2. Learn by heart the idioms:
- •3. Translate these sentences into English, use new idioms.
- •Grammar spot the infinitive
- •The Forms of the Infinitive
- •The Functions of the Infinitive in the Sentence
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8 Organize the expressions into the sentences and translate them
- •Infinitive Constructions
- •The Objective InfinitiveConstruction (Complex Object)
- •The Subjective Infinitive Construction (Complex Subject)
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •Exercise 15
- •Exercise 16
- •The Devoted Friend
- •Exercises
- •I. Answer the questions.
- •Religion
- •1. Study the following:
- •2. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions and give the translation of the definitions.
- •3. Read the words and their explanations. Give the translation of them.
- •1 Kings 2:46
- •4. Wisdom is Supreme
- •4. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions.
- •5. In the following sentences, there is an idiom. Decide what you think is the key word, then look in your dictionary to see if you are right. Rewrite the sentences in non-idiomatic English.
- •6. The following sentences all contain an idiom with one key word missing. Choose one of the four alternatives to complete the idiom.
- •7. The following sentences all contain some idioms. Read and translate them into English. Use a Russian-English dictionary and the English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary by a. V. Kunin.
- •8. Link each of the pictures with one of the idioms listed below. Comment on the meaning of each of them. Use them in situations of your own.
- •9. Use the idioms to make up a story. Each student should take turns building upon the sentence, turn by turn.
- •10. In the following sentences, there is an idiom. Expand on the sentences.
- •11. The following sentences all contain an idiom with one key word missing. Choose one of the four alternatives to complete the idiom and translate the sentences.
- •12. Explain and expand on the following. Use the idioms given in Unit 11.
- •13. Continue the following dialogue. Use the idioms given in Unit 11.
- •14. Read and translate the following passage into Russian.
- •15. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •17. Make up the dialogue where the last phrase will be: "So as the proverb goes..."
- •18. A. Read the following passages and choose the correct key word to complete the idioms. Translate the passages into Ukrainian.
- •19. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •Grammar spot The Gerund
- •The Forms of the Gerund
- •TheFunctions of the Gerund in the Sentence
- •Predicative Constructions with the Gerund
- •Exercise 5
- •Reading for pleasure o. Henry
- •Schools and Schools
- •2. Prove that:
- •3. Add more information to these:
- •5. Imagine that you are:
- •1. Learn new words:
- •2. A. Fill in missed letters:
- •3. There are 17 words connected with food. They go across → and down ↓. Find them and write them here.
- •4. Put the following eating and drinking verbs into the correct squares.
- •5. Read and translate the dialogues. Learn one of them and act on the lesson.
- •6. Translate the following words and word-combinations into English.
- •7. Put in the right order the dialogue. Read, translate and act it.
- •8. Fill in the sentences with the missed words.
- •9. Read and translate the text and then proceed to the tasks.
- •10. Put each of the following words into its correct place in the passage below.
- •11. Group the words below under the following headings.
- •13. Answer the questions.
- •14. Choose a possible adjective to describe each of these foods.
- •15. Match the method of cooking with its definition.
- •16. Put the following names of food and drink under the right headings on the menu.
- •17. A. Translate the following words and word-combinations from the text.
- •In search of good English food
- •18. Translate the proverbs into Ukrainian and explain them in English.
- •19. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions.
- •20. Rewrite the sentences in non-idiomatic English.
- •21. Fill in the text with English equivalents of the words. Food for Thought
- •22. Which are the odd men out?
- •23. Complete the table by giving examples for each category. Types of Food
- •24. Fill in the blanks with the right word.
- •24. Read, translate and retell the text. Chocolate – like falling in love …
- •25. Translate into English.
- •26. Write the recipe of your favourite dessert.
- •27. Read, translate and retell the text. Ukrainian cookery
- •Ice Cream
- •29. Translate the dialogue into English.
- •30. Write your own dialogue “At the restaurant” and act it in the class.
- •31. Match two columns. Table manners
- •32. Read and translate the text. Garlic: Nature’s oldest remedy
- •33. Fill in the blanks with the right word.
- •34. Crossword
- •The Participle
- •The Forms of the Participle
- •TheFunctions of the Participle in the Sentence
- •Insert Participle I or Participle II
- •Predicative Constructions with the Participle The Objective Participial Construction
- •The Subjective Participial Construction
- •The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction
- •Reading with pleasure No Story by o.Henry
- •1. Add more information to the following:
Part II
I
(One day little Florence Dombey and her young maid Susan Nipper were walking along a street in London far from home. When they were crossing the street, they found themselves in a large crowd of people. Suddenly something frightened Florence. She screamed and ran. She was running rather long and when she stopped, she found that she was alone in ah empty street. An old woman took her by the hand and told her that she would find her maid for her. Instead, she took Florence to an old house. There she told the girl to take off her dress and shoes. Then she gave her some old clothes and shoes to put on and took her to the City where she left her, telling her that she could ask the people the way to the firm of Dombey and Son.)
Florence walked from street to street, until at last she looked into a wharf on the river-side, where she saw a big man. He had his hands in his pockets and a pen behind his ear. He looked round and saw Florence.
"Now then,” said this man. "We have nothing for you, little girl. Go away”
"If you please, is this the City?" asked the trembling daughter of the Dombeys.
"Yes, it's the City. You know that well enough, I think. Go away! We have nothing for you."
"I don't want anything, thank you," was the answer. "I only want to know the way to Dombey and Son's."
The man was surprised.
"Why, what can you want with Dombey and Son's?"
"To know the way there if you please." The man looked at her some time.
"Joe!" he cried to another man. "Where is that boy of Dombey's? Call him here!"
Joe ran out and soon returned with a merry-looking boy. It was Walter Gay, nephew of Solomon Gills.
"You are from Dombey's, aren't you?" said the man with the pen behind his ear.
"Yes, I'm in Dombey's House, Mr. Clark," said the boy.
"Look at her, then," said Mr. Clark.
Walter made a step towards Florence, not knowing what to do with her. But Florence, who had heard the conversation, ran up to him so quickly, that she lost one of her shoes. She took Walter's hand in both of hers.
"I am lost, if you please!" said Florence.
"Lost!" cried the boy.
"Yes, I was lost this morning, a long way from; here – and my clothes were taken away from me – and my name is Florence Dombey – and oh – take care of me, if you please!" and she burst into tears.
Walter picked up the shoe and put it on the little foot as the Prince in the story put Cinderella's shoe on.
"Don't cry, Miss Dombey," said Walter, giving her his right hand. "How good it is that I am here. You are quite safe now. Come along, Miss Dombey!"
And they went hand-in-hand along the streets. It was getting dark and beginning to rain, but they did not notice it. Florence was telling Walter about her adventure, and they were both happy.
"Have we far to go?" asked Florence at last, lifting up her eyes to Walter's face.
"Let me see," said Walter, stopping: "where are we? Oh! I know. But the offices are shut up now. Miss Dombey. There's nobody there. Mr. Dombey has gone home. I'll take you home, too, shall I? Or no. Suppose I take you to my uncle's, where I live – it's very near here. Then I'll go to your house in a coach. I'll tell them you are safe and bring you some clothes. That will be best, won't it?"
"I think so," answered Florence. "What do you think?"
"Come, Miss Dombey," said Walter, "we'll go to my uncle's as quickly as we can."
They went on talking merrily and soon came to the door of Solomon Gills' shop.
II
"Hallo, Uncle Sol!" cried Walter opening the door. "Here's a wonderful adventure! Here's Miss Dombey, Mr. Dombey's daughter! She was lost in the streets and robbed of her clothes.' and she was found by me. I have brought her home to rest look!"
"Good Heavens!" said Uncle Sol. "It can't be!"
"What a surprise, isn't it," said Walter. "Help me to put the little sofa near the fire, will you. Uncle Sol – take care of the plates – make some dinner for her, will you, Uncle. Miss Florence, put your feet near the fire – how wet they are – here's an adventure. Uncle, eh? Uncle, I'll run upstairs to put on another jacket and then I'll be off. I say, Uncle, isn't this an adventure?"
"My dear boy," said Solomon, "it's the most wonderful adventure."
"Please, Uncle – Miss Florence – dinner, you know, Uncle."
"Yes, yes, yes," cried Solomon. "I'll take care of her, Walter! I understand. Pretty child! Hungry, of course. You go and get ready. Sir Richard Wittington, Lord Mayor of London!"
Walter went upstairs. He was not very long, but before he came, Florence had fallen asleep before the fire, so tired she was. Solomon Gills put a cushion under her head and darkened the room. So, when Walter returned, she was sleeping.
"That's fine!" whispered Walter. "Now I'm off. I'll just take a piece of bread with me, because I'm very hungry – and – don't wake her. Uncle Sol!"
"No, no," said Solomon. "Pretty child."
"Pretty indeed!" cried Walter. "I've never seen such a face. Uncle Sol. Now I'm off."
"That's right," said Solomon.
"I say, Uncle Sol," cried Walter, putting his face in at the door.
"Here he is again," said Solomon.
"How does she look now?"
"Quite happy," said Solomon.
"That's wonderful; Now I'm off."
And this time he really was off.
III
Walter hurried to Mr. Dombey's house. When he came there, he was taken by the servant to the library where Mr. Dombey, his sister Mrs. Chick, his sister's friend Miss Tox, Paul's nurse Richards and Florence's young maid Susan Nipper were all gathered together.
"Oh! I beg your pardon sir," said Walter to Mr. Dombey, "but I'm happy to say that it's all right, sir. Miss Dombey is found!"
"I told you, Louisa," that she would certainly be found," said Mr. Dombey to Mrs. Chick who wept in company with Miss Tox. "This boy who has brought this information, is young Gay, from the office. How was my daughter found, sir? I know how she was lost. But how was she found? Who found her?"
"Why, I think I found Miss Dombey, sir," said Walter. And he told Mr. Dombey what had taken place. He also explained why he had come alone.
"You hear this, girl?" said Mr. Dombey to Susan Nipper. "Take what is necessary and go immediately with this young man to bring Miss Florence home. Gay, you will be rewarded tomorrow."
"Oh! thank you, sir," said Walter. "You are very kind. I'm sure I was not thinking of any reward, sir."
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think is not important. Louisa, please, show the boy the way."
Mr. Dombey looked at Walter with displeasure, as he left the room.
When Walter and Susan Nipper reached Uncle Sol's shop, they found that Florence had rested and dined. She was talking in a friendly way with Solomon Gills. Susan Nipper took her in her arms and kissed her. Then she dressed her in the clothes which she had brought.
"Good night!" said Florence, running up to Solomon. "You have been very good to me."
Old Sol was very pleased and kissed her as if he was her grandfather.
"Good night, Walter! Good-bye!" said Florence.
"Good-bye!" said Walter, giving both his hands.
"I'll never forget you," said Florence. "No! indeed, I never will. Good-bye, Walter."
The child lifted up her face to Walter. He bent down his own face, then raised it again, all red and burning.
"Where's Walter?" "Good night, Walter!" "Good-bye, Walter!" "Shake hands again, Walter!" Tilts was still Rorence's cry, after she was put into the coach with her little maid. And when the coach at last started, she waved her handkerchief to him out of the window. He stood on the door-step and waved gaily back to her.
Part III
I
(Paul Dombey's mother died soon after he was born. Paul was brought up by nurses and his sister Florence whom he loved very much. He was a very weak child. He very often fell ill, and when he was not ill, he got tired very soon and could not play like other children.)
Thus Paul grew to be nearly five years old. He was a pretty little fellow, but not healthy. He was childish and sportive enough at times.' But, at other times, he often sat and thought in his little armchair, and then he looked and talked like a very-very old man. It mostly happened when his tittle arm-chair was carried into his father's room after, and he sat there with him by the fire.
One day. When they were sitting like this, little Paul said:
"Papa! what's money?"
Mr. Dombey was surprised.
"What is money, Paul?" he answered. "Money?"
"Yes," said the child, looking up at Mr. Dombey: "what is money?"
Mr. Dombey was in a difficulty.
"Gold, and silver, and copper," he answered. "Guineas, shillings, halfpence. You know what they are?"
"Oh, yes, I know what they are," said Paul. "I don't mean that, Papa. I mean, what's money after all?"
Heaven and Earth, how old his face was when he looked at his father again!
"What is money after all," said Mr. Dombey, looking at his son in great surprise.
"I mean, Papa, what can it do?" said Paul, looking at the fire and up at him, and at the fire and up at him again.
Mr. Dombey patted him on the head. "You'll know better by and by, my man," he said. "Money, Paul, can do anything."
"Anything, Papa?"
"Yes. Anything – almost," said Mr. Dombey.
"Anything means everything, doesn't it, Papa?" asked his son.
"Well, yes," said Mr. Dombey.
"Why didn't money save me my mummy?" asked the child. "It isn't cruel, is it?"
"Cruel!" said Mr. Dombey. "No. A good thing can't be cruel."
"If it is a good thing, and can do anything," said the little boy thoughtfully, as he looked back at the fire, "I wonder why it didn't save me my mummy."
II
(The meeting with Florence produced a great impression on Walter Gay. He thought about the girl all the time. His uncle and Captain Cuttle often joked about him and Florence and remembered Dick Wittington. Walter often went to the part of London where Mr. Dombey's house was and walked there, hoping to meet Florence. Sometimes he met her in company with Susan Nipper, and they stopped for a talk. He felt very happy on these days. Sometimes he dreamed that he would be a sailor and go on a long voyage and return an admiral, very rich and famous, and marry Florence. But he understood that those were only dreams.
Solomon Gills had an old debt that had remained after the death of Walter's father, about which Walter did not know. The day came when that debt was to be paid. Solomon Gills was in despair because he had no money to pay it. Walter learned about the debt and appealed for aid to Captain Cuttle, Uncle Sol's only friend. But Captain Cuttle was also poor and he advised Walter to go to Mr. Dombey at once and ask him for help. It so happened that Mr. Dombey was not in the office on that day. There was no time to wait, and Captain Cuttle told Walter to go to Mr. Dombey's house.)
When Mr. Dombey, Mrs. Chick and Miss Tox were sitting at breakfast, Florence came running into the room, looking very excited.
"Papa! Papa!" she cried. "Here's Walter! And he doesn’t want to come in!"
"Who?" cried Mr. Dombey. "What does she mean? What is this?"
"Walter, Papa," said Florence timidly. "Who found me when I was lost."
"Does she mean young Gay, Louisa?" asked Mr. Dombey. "Really, this child has no manners. She cannot mean young Gay, I think. Find out what it is, please.”
Mrs. Chick went out. When she came back, she said that it was young Gay; and that he did not want to disturb Mr. Dombey during breakfast and said that he would wait.
"Tell the boy to come in now," said Mr. Dombey. When Walter entered the room, Mr. Dombey said, "Now, Gay, what is the matter?
Who sent you here? Could they send nobody else?"
"I beg your pardon, sir," answered Walter. "Nobody sent me. I have come myself, which I hope you will pardon when you know the reason."
"What do you want to say to me?" said Mr. Dombey.
"I am afraid, sir," began Walter, trembling and looking down at the ground, "that I take a very great liberty in coming. When I saw Miss Dombey and –"
"Well," said Mr. Dombey, frowning when he noticed that, Florence smiled at Walter. "Go on, please."
"It is entirely a private matter, sir," continued Walter. "I have come to say, sir, that my poor old uncle is in great trouble. He must make a payment on an old debt and he cannot do it. If he does not pay the money, he will lose all he has, and that will break his heart. You know him as a respectable man. And if you did something to help him out of his difficulty, sir, we never could thank you enough for it.”
Walter's eyes filled with tears as he spoke. Florence was nearly crying too.
"It is a very large sum, sir," said Walter. "More than three hundred pounds. My uncle is very upset, Sir. He doesn't even know yet that I have come to speak to you. I think you want me to say exactly what I want. I really don't know, sir. There's my uncle's shop. Then I – of course, I earn very little; but if you allow sir, – this money –payment – uncle – respectable old man –"
After these broken sentences Walter stood silent, looking down. Florence was crying. Little Paul, who had come into the room after Florence, tried to comfort her. Mr. Dombey noticed that Paul looked at him and then at Walter as if he wanted to say something.
"Paul, come here," he said.
The child obeyed, and Mr. Dombey took him on his knee.
"If you had money now –" said Mr. Dombey. "Look at me!"
Paul looked his father in the face.
"If you had money now," said Mr. Dombey, "as much money as young Gay has talked about; what would you do?"
"Give it to his old uncle," answered Paul.
"Lend it to his old uncle, eh," said Mr. Dombey. "Well! When you are old enough, you know, you will share my money, and we shall spend it together and –"
"Dombey and Son," interrupted Paul.
"Dombey and Son," repeated his father. "Would you like to begin to be Dombey and Son now and lend this money to young Gay's uncle?"
"Oh yes, Papa, I would," said Paul, "and Florence too."
"Girls," said Mr. Dombey, "have nothing to do with Dombey and Son. Would you like it?"
"Yes, Papa, yes!"
"Then you will do it," said his father. "And you see, Paul," he added, "how powerful money is, and how people want to get it. Young Gay comes to ask for money, and you, who are so great, because you have it, give it to him as a great favour."
Paul jumped off his father's knee and ran to tell Florence not to cry any more because he would give young Gay the money.
Mr. Dombey turned to the table and wrote a note. While he was writing, Paul and Florence talked to Walter in a whisper. When Mr. Dombey finished writing, he gave the note to Walter.
"Take it to the office tomorrow morning," he said, "and the money will be paid. You will consider that this is done for you by Master Paul."
Walter wanted to say how glad he was, but Mr. Dombey stopped him.
"You will consider that this is done," he repeated, "by Master Paul. I have explained that to him, and he understands it."
As he pointed to the door, Walter could only bow his head and go out. Florence wanted to run out after him, but Mr. Dombey called her back and told her to stay where she was.
Part IV
I
(Some years later Paul Dombey died. His death was a great blow to Mr. Dombey. Again the Firm had no heir. Why wasn't Florence dead instead of Paul, thought Mr. Dombey. Now that his son was dead and she was alive, he hated her still more. Florence loved her father, but she felt his hatred and suffered greatly.
Mr. Dombey noticed that Florence and Walter Gay liked each other and was angry. Though he hated his daughter, he could not think of a member of his family to be in love with a poor man, or to marry him. So he sent Walter to Barbados, where the Dombey and Son Firm had an agency, to work as a clerk. Walter could not refuse, because if he did, he would_have no work at all, and besides, his uncle owed Mr. Dombey a large sum of money now, which he could not pay. So, with a heavy heart, Walter agreed. It was a blow to his uncle, but they could do nothing about it. Walter tried to be cheerful, especially on his last day in London.)
"Uncle," said Walter, putting his hand on the old man's shoulder, "what shall I send you home from Barbados?"
"Hope, my dear Walter. Hope that we shall meet again."
"So I will, Uncle. And you will not forget what you must send me?"
"No, Walter, no," replied the old man: "everything I hear about Miss Dombey, I'll write."
"I must tell you, Uncle," said Walter, "that I have just been there"
"Oh," said his uncle.
"Not to see her," said Walter, "but to say good-bye to Susan."
"Yes, my boy, yes," replied his uncle.
"So I saw her," went on Walter. "Susan Nipper, Florence's maid, I mean: and I told her I was going away tomorrow. And I said, Uncle, that you had always had an interest in Miss Dombey since that night when she was here, and you always wanted her to be well and happy and always would be proud and glad to serve her. I thought I was right to say that. Don't you think so?"
"Yes, my boy, yes," replied his uncle.
"So, if you ever see her, Uncle," said Walter, "I mean Miss Dombey now, tell her how much I thought of her when I was here; how I spoke of her, with the tears in my eyes, Uncle, on the last night before I went away. Tell her that I can never forget her gentle manner or her beautiful face. And tell her that I kept those old shoes – she'll remember how often they fell off that night – and took them away with me as a remembrance!"