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3. Match the words with the definitions.

1) gilt

a) make known (what is secret or hidden)

2) waistcoat

b) a small piece (of food, etc.)

3) sin

c) covered with gold-leaf or painted to look like gold

4) plunder

d) the act of restoring, making good, atoning or compensating for

5) intervene

e) the breaking of God’s laws; wickedness; wrong-doing of any kind

6) reveal

f) rob, take by force, steal

7) morsel

g) a close-fitting garment without sleeves, worn under a coat

8) reparation

h) (colloq.) the amount received as wages or salary

9) screw

i) take part; interfere

10) despise

j) look down upon; consider as worthless feel; feel contempt for

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.