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Grammar Tasks

1. Complete the sentences with the appropriate modal verb.

  1. Polly knew that she was being watched, but still her mother’s persistent silence … not be misunderstood.

  2. One night he went for his wife with the cleaver and she … to sleep in a neighbour’s house.

  3. He was thirty-four or thirty-five years old, so that youth … not be pleaded as his excuse; nor … ignorance be his excuse since he was a man who had seen something in the world.

  4. There … be reparation made in such case.

  5. It is all very well for the man: he … go his ways as if nothing had happened, having had his moment of pleasure, but the girl … to bear the brunt.

  6. For her only one reparation … make up for the loss of her daughter’s honour: marriage.

  7. Three days’ reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he … to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief.

  8. What … he do now but marry her or run away? He … not brazen it out.

  9. He … not make up his mind whether to like her or despise her for what she had done.

  10. Perhaps they … be happy, together.

2. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense.

  1. Mrs. Mooney, who _____(to take) what _____(to remain) of her money out of the butcher business and _____(to set up) a boarding house in Hardwicke Street, _____(to be) a big imposing woman.

  2. Mrs. Mooney first _____(to send) her daughter _____(to be) a typist in a corn-factor’s office but, as a disreputable sheriff’s man used _____(to come) every other day to the office, asking _____(to allow) to say a word to his daughter, she _____(to take) her daughter home again and _____(to set) her _____(to do) housework.

  3. Polly, of course, (to flirt) with the young men but Mrs. Mooney, who _____(to be) a shrewd judge, _____(to know) that the young men only _____(to pass) the time away: none of them _____(to mean) business.

  4. Things _____(to be) as she _____(to suspect): she _____(to be) frank in her questions and Polly _____(to be) frank in her answers.

  5. If it _____(to be) Mr. Sheridan or Mr. Meade or Bantam Lyons her task _____(to be) much harder.

  6. She _____(not to think) he _____(to face) publicity.

  7. While he _____(to sit) helplessly on the side of the bed in shirt and trousers she _____(to tap) lightly at his door and _____(to enter).

  8. She _____(to tell) him all, that she _____(to make) a clean breast of it to her mother and that her mother _____(to speak) with him that morning.

  9. She _____(to want) _____(to relight) her candle at his for hers _____(to blow out) by a gust.

  10. Suddenly he ____(to remember) the night when one of the music-hall artistes, a little blond Londoner, ___(to make) a rather free allusion to Polly.

Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks

1. Answer the questions:

  1. What happened to Mr. Mooney after his father-in-law’s death?

  2. Why did Mrs. Mooney decide to get a separation from him?

  3. How did she earn her living?

  4. What reputation did her boarding house have?

  5. What kind of person was Jack, Mrs. Mooney’s son?

  6. Why didn’t Mrs. Mooney intervene in Polly’s affair?

  7. What did “outrageous mother” think of Bob?

  8. Why didn’t Bob run away?

2. Discuss the following:

  1. “She felt sure she would win”. Why was Mrs. Mooney so positive in her plan?

  2. “Come down, dear. Mr. Doran wants to speak to you”. What was he going to say to Polly?

  3. Could the situation have had another denouement?