2. Choose the correct pronoun.

1. Such a triumph had its honour even for a man of other triumphs – a man who had reached fifty, who had escaped marriage, who had lived without his / him means, who had been in love with Mrs. Mallow for years without breathing it, and who, last but not least, had judged him / himself once for all.

2. His victory, however, as I have intimated, in regard to these productions, was not simply in his not having let it out that he deplored them; it was, remarkably, in his / he not having kept it in by anything else.

3. He had of course before long to meet the boy him / himself on it and to hear that practically everything was settled.

4. Lance would have been like his / him father, to his friend’s sense, had he had less humour, and like his / her mother had he had more beauty.

5. “Then you want mine / I / me to stay at home?”

6. The room in which they sat was adorned with sundry specimens of the Master’s genius, which had the merit of being, as Mrs. Mallow her / herself / sheself frequently suggested, of an unusually convenient size.

7. They [statues] formed, like the Mallows themselves / themself / theirselves, poor Brench’s own family – having at least to such a degree the note of familiarity.

8. Twice a year regularly the Master believed in his / him fortune, in addition to believing all the year round in himself / his genius.

9. “We’ll drink to the health of the absent, but we must hope he’s preparing herself / himself / him for a happiness much less like this of ours / our/ us this evening.”

10. “The comfort,” the Master explained, leaning back in the pleasant lamplight and firelight, holding up his glass and looking round at his marble family, quartered more or less, a monstrous brood, in every room – “the comfort of art in it / itself / himself!”

3. Change the following sentences from the story into indirect speech:

1. “Peter, don’t you think I’ve talent?” Lance repeated.

2. “But I forgot,” his companion went on – “you’re not to know about that.”

3. “What a pity Lance isn’t with us to rejoice!” Mrs. Mallow on this occasion sighed at supper.

4. “We’ll drink to the health of the absent,” her husband replied, “but we must hope he’s preparing himself for a happiness much less like this of ours this evening.”

5. Peter got up from the sofa, “Lance, if you’ll go up again I’ll pay your way at Cambridge.”

Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks

1. Answer the questions:

1. What sort of a man was Peter Brench?

2. What was Peter’s attitude to the Mallows?

3. Did Peter Brench believe in his godson’s talent?

4. What career did Lance choose for himself?

5. What did Peter offer Lance when he got to know that the latter was not to go up again?

6. What was Lance’s decision?

7. Did Master and Peter have different attitude to art?

2. Discuss the following:

1. What did Peter and Lance call a success? Did they have the same opinion?

2. Do you have any ideas why so many artists were unrecognized during their lifetime and became popular only after their death?

3. Do you agree that “art ends where big money begins”?