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Рассказы О.Генри. Рассказы О. Книга предназначена для учащихся 10 классов средних школ, гимназий, лицеев. Ббк 81. 2Англ93 удк811. 111(075) isbn 9785811246649 ООО Издательство айрис пресс
6 What do you think?
The story does not say anything about how old Jerome had made his fortune. Do you have any ideas? Say why you think so.
Which couple do you think Jerome will prefer — Gilbert and Nevada, or Gilbert and Barbara? Which is your preference? Give reasons for your answer.
Do you think Nevada will go to school, or will Gilbert teach her? Do you have your own ideas on this score?
Say what you think of Gilbert as an artist. What sort of pictures do you think he painted? Do you think he will be a success (if you take into ac count his character).
Do you think Gilbert and Nevada have something in common? Remember her paddling a canoe, her walk into a stormy night, his quick decision). What do you think of all that?
Say what you like (or dislike) about old Jerome, Gilbert, Nevada, and Barbara. Who is your fa vourite? Give reasons for your likes and dislikes.
The title of the story is “Schools and Schools”. Which schools do you think the author meant? Can you think of another title to this story?
LOST ON DRESS PARADE1
When in the evening Mr. Towers Chandler appeared in the streets of New York, people took him for a rich young man. He was handsome, well dressed and sure of himself. In a word2, he looked like a typical clubman going out to have a good time. No one knew that he was not rich. He was in fact quite poor.
Chandler was twenty-two years old. He worked in the office of an architect and got eighteen dollars a week. At the end of each week he put aside one dollar out of his salary. At the end of each ten weeks he ironed his evening suit and went out to have a good time. He usu-
1 Lost on Dress Parade — зд. Проигрыш из-за щегольства
2 In a word — Одним словом
ally dined at a fashionable restaurant where there was wine and music. It took him ten weeks1 to accumulate his capital of ten dollars and it took him only a few hours to spend it, playing the role of a rich idler.
One night he went out, dressed in his evening clothes and started for the restaurant where he dined one evening out of seventy.
He was just going to turn around the corner2 when a young girl in front of him slipped on the snow and fell down. Chandler ran up and helped her to her feet3.
“Thank you,” said the girl. “I think I have twisted my ankle.”
“Does it hurt very much?” asked Chandler.
“Yes, it does,” she answered, “but I think I shall be able to walk in a few minutes.”
“Can I do anything for you4?” said Chandler. “I will call a cab, or...”
“Thank you,” said the girl again, “but I don’t want to trouble you any longer...”
Chandler looked at the girl. She was very young. Her face was both beautiful and kind. She was dressed in a cheap black dress that looked like a uniform that sales girls wear. A cheap black hat was on her shining dark- brown hair. She looked like a working girl of the best type5.
A sudden idea саmе into the young architect’s head. He decided to ask this girl to dine with him. He was sure she was a nice girl. Her speech and manners showed it. And in spite of1 her simple clothes he felt he would be happy2 to sit at table with her. He thought: This poor girl has never been to a fashionable restau- rant, it is clear. She will remember the pleasure for a long time.
“I think,” he said to her, “that your foot must rest for some time. Now, I am going to tell you something.
am on my way to dine. Come with me. We’ll have a nice dinner and a pleasant talk together. And when our dinner is over3 your foot will be better, I am sure.”
The girl looked up into Chandler’s clear, blue eyes. Then she smiled: “We don’t know each other. I’m afraid
it is not right,” she said.
“Why not?” asked the young man. “I’ll introduce myself. My name is Towers Chandler. I will try to make our dinner as pleasant as possible. And after dinner I will say good-bye to you, or will take you to your door as you wish.”
“But how can I go to the restaurant in this old dress and hat?” said the girl, looking at Chandler’s evening suit.
“Never mind that,4” said Chandler. “I’m sure you will look better in them than any one we shall see there In the richest evening dress.”
“I think I will go with you, Mr. Chandler,” said the girl, “because my ankle still hurts me. You may call me ... Miss Marian.”
“All right, Miss Marian,” said the young architect, “you will not have to walk far1. There is a very good restaurant a little way from here. You will have to hold my arm and walk slowly. It will take only a few minutes to get there.”
The two young people came to the restaurant and sat down at a table. Chandler ordered a good dinner. He felt quite happy.
The restaurant was full of richly-dressed people. There was a good orchestra playing beautiful music. The food was excellent. His companion, even in her cheap hat and dress, looked more beautiful than some ladies in evening dresses.
And then... some kind of madness came upon2 Tow ers Chandler. He began to play the role of a rich idler before the girl. He spoke of clubs and teas, of playing golf and riding horses and tours in Europe. He could see that the girl was listening to him with attention, so he told her more and more lies3. The longer he talked the more4 lies told her about his life.
At last she said: “Do you like living such an idle life? Have you no work to do? Have you no other interests?”
“My dear Miss Marian,” he exclaimed, “work! I am; too busy to work. It takes so much time to dress every
day for dinner, to make a dozen visits in an afternoon... I have no time for work.”
The dinner was over. The two young people walked out to the corner where they had met. Miss Marian walked very well now, her ankle was much better.
“Thank you for a nice time,1” she said to Chandler. "I must run home now. I liked the dinner very much, Mr. Chandler.”
He shook hands with her, smiling, and said that he also had to hurry. He was going to his club to play bridge.
In his cheap cold room Chandler put away his evening suit to rest for sixty nine days.
“That was a fine girl,” he said to himself. “I should like2 to meet her again. I have made a mistake in play ing the role of a rich idler before a poor working girl. Why did I lie to her? All because of my evening suit3, I think... I’m sorry it’s all over!”
After she had left Chandler the girl came to a rich mid handsome house facing a beautiful avenue. She entered a room where a young lady was looking out of the window.
“Oh, Marian!” she exclaimed when the other entered. "When will you stop frightening us? Two hours ago you ran out in this old dress and Helen’s hat. Mother is so worried. She sent the chauffeur in the automobile to look for you. You are a bad, bad girl, Marian!”
Then she pressed a button. A servant came in and she said:
“Helen, tell Mother that Miss Marian has returned.” “Don’t be angry with me, Sister,” said Marian. “I only ran down to my dressmaker to tell her to use blue buttons instead of white for my new dress. My old dress and Helen’s hat were just what I needed1. Every one thought I was a sales-girl, I am sure.”
“Dinner is over, dear, you were away so long,” said Marian’s sister.
“I know,” said Marian. “I slipped in the street and twisted my ankle. So I walked to a restaurant with great difficulty and sat there until my ankle was better. That’s why I was so long.”
The two girls sat down at the window, looking out. Then Marian said: “We will have to marry one day, both of us. We have too much money, so we shall not be left in peace2, I am sure. Shall I tell you the kind of man3 I can love?”
“Go on, dear,” said her sister, smiling.
“The man I can love must have clear blue eyes, he must be handsome and good and he mustn’t try to flirt. But I shall love a man like that4 only if he is not lazy, if he has some work to do in the world. No matter5 how poor he is I shall love him. But, Sister, dear, what kind of young men do we meet every day? They live an idle life between visits to their friends and visits to their clubs. No, I can’t love a man like that, even if his eyes are blue and he is handsome: even if he is kind to poor girls whom he meets in the street.”
Exercises
? Checking Comprehension
1 Answer the following questions.
1) How many persons are mentioned in this story?
Where does the story take place? What tells you this?
What did Towers Chandler look like?
In what way did Chandler look like a typical clubman?
What was Chandler’s occupation?
6) In what way did he manage to accumulate money for a dinner?
What kind of a restaurant was it?
How often did he dine there?
How much was the dinner?
How long did it take Chandler to spend his sa vings?
11) How was Chandler dressed on such occasions?
What happened one night on his way to the res taurant?
What did Chandler do to the girl?
What was the girl like?
How was she dressed?
16) What kind of an idea came into Chandler’s head?
How did the girl take Chandler’s idea?
18) What made the girl accept Chandler’s invitation?
What was the restaurant where Chandler and Marian came in like?
What kind of a man did Chandler play before the girl?
21) How did Marian listen to Chandler?
22) Did her ankle hurt Marian when the dinner was over?
Did Chandler go to the club to play bridge or did he go to his room?
What kind of a room was it?
What did Chandler do with his evening suit?
When was he going to wear it next?
What did Chandler think of himself after the dinner?
What did he feel about Marian?
What kind of a house did Marian live in?
What kind of a man would she love?
2.Say whether the statement is true or false. Correct
the false one.
Chandler looked like a typical working man.
At the end of each week Chandler went out to have a good time.
He had to iron his suit every week.
It took him a month to save money for a good dinner in a fashionable restaurant.
Chandler did not know what to do to the girl when she had slipped on the snow.
The girl was dressed like a model.
Chandler hurt his ankle while helping the girl to her feet.
Chandler decided to play a joke on the girl.
Chandler’s story did not impress the girl.
Helen was Marian’s sister.
Chandler lived an idle life.
Marian will never marry Chandler.
3. Put the sentences in the right order.
One night Chandler met a girl with a beautiful and kind face.
To make impression on Marian Chandler pre tended to be a rich idler.
Marian, that was the girl’s name, came from a rich family.
Chandler worked for eighteen dollars a week.
Chandler took Marian for a working girl.
To give a rest to her twisted ankle Marian ac cepted the invitation.
Marian confessed to her sister what kind of a man she could love.
In his cold room Chandler realised what a mis take he had made.
He invited her to dine with him at a restaurant.
Chandler went out to have a good time at a fashionable restaurant every ten weeks.
Marian returned to her house where her sister and mother worried about her.
Say which words and word combinations you would use to describe Chandler and which to describe Marian.
rich, well-dressed, young, handsome, sure of oneself, typical clubman, poor, twenty-two years old, dressed in evening suit, beautiful, kind, dressed in simple clothes, shining dark-brown hair, nice speech and manners, clear blue eyes, happy, rich idler
Working with Vocabulary and Grammar
1 Find in the text the English for:
Об этом свидетельствовали ее речь и манеры.
Она долго будет помнить это удовольствие.
Я иду обедать.
Боюсь, это неприлично.
Я провожу вас до самого дома.
Не обращайте на это внимание.
Недалеко отсюда.
Вам придется держаться за мою руку.
Понадобится всего несколько минут, чтобы добраться туда.
Играть роль богатого бездельника.
Вести праздный образ жизни.
Не сердитесь на меня.
Когда-нибудь нам придется выходить замуж.
2 Match the verbs and phrases, which have the same
or very close meaning. Use them in the situati
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1) to put aside
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a) to use up
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2) to spend
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d) to be finished
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e) to manage
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6) to trouble
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f) to save
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7) to dine
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g) to walk to
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8) to be over
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h) to bother
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9) to introduce
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j) to look toward
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10) to face
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k) to be lazy
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m) to seek
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13) to flirt
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n) to make oneself known
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14) to be idle
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Did Towers Chandler look like a poor clerk о did he look like __________________________________
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4 Fill in the gaps with the appropriate participle clauses from the box below. Each participle clause can be used only once.
helping her to her feet feeling quite happy playing the role of a rich idler putting away his evening suit looking out of the window living an idle life twisting her ankle smiling to her playing good music looking at his evening suit going out to have a good time returning home
1) He looked like a typical clubman _____________________________________
2) Chandler held the girl’s arm ____________________________
3) _____________the girl wondered how she could go to a restaurant in her old dress and hat.
Chandler ordered a good dinner_______________
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There was a good orchestra_________________
He talked of clubs, and golf, and horses, and tours to Europe _________________
Chandler shook hands with her
_________ he re alised what a mistake he had made.
_______________ Marian saw her sister
Marian slipped in the street_________________
Marian did not like the men_________________
Complete the sentences.
When Towers Chandler appeared in the streets of New York dressed in his evening suit people ______
To be able to spend one night at a fashionable restaurant Chandler had to___________
The girl slipped on the snow, fell down, and______
Her speech and manners showed that________
He introduced himself and said that he would______
) Chandler invited her to a restaurant, which was_____
In spite of her simple clothes he felt___________
He said it would take
The restaurant they came in was
Playing the role of a rich idler he spoke of
When the two young people came to the corner where they had met ________________________
When Chandler came to his poor cold room he
When Marian returned home her sister
Marian said that she had only run down
Marian dreamed of a handsome man with blue eyes but ______________________________
Discussing the Story
1 Say why:
People took Towers Chandler for a rich young man.
Chandler put aside one dollar out of his salary.
Marian twisted her ankle.
Marian looked like a working girl of the best type.
Chandler thought that Marian would remember the pleasure of being at a fashionable restaurant for a long time.
Marian was afraid that it was not right to have dinner with Chandler.
At last Marian accepted the invitation.
She had to hold Chandler’s arm and walk slowly.
Some kind of madness came upon Chandler.
Chandler thought he had made a mistake.
Marian’s mother was worried.
Marian wanted to go to her dressmaker.
Marian believed that she and her sister would not be left in peace.
Chandler lost his fortune.
Prove that:
Chandler is not rich.
Chandler is a kind young man.
Marian is rich and lives in a family.
Marian is a serious girl.
Chandler might have (мог бы) won a fortune.
Add more information to these:
Chandler started for the restaurant.
He saw the girl slip on the snow.
A sudden idea came into the young man’s head.
“I think I will go with you,” said the girl.
The two young people sat down at a table.
Chandler did not know what happened to him.
She thanked him for a nice time.
In his cheap cold room Chandler put away his evening suit.
Marian explained the situation to her sister.
Marian thought of the men she could love.
Act out the talk between:
Chandler and Marian (after she fell down).
Marian and Chandler (he invites the girl to the restaurant).
Chandler and Marian (in the restaurant).
Marian and her sister.
Imagine that you are:
something about yourself;
why you go to a fashionable restaurant;
how you met Marian;
what made you play the role of a rich idler.
why you left your house that evening;
what happened to you in the street;
what you felt having dinner with Chandler;
what you liked about Chandler. Why?
what you do not like about him. Why?
Marian’s sister. Say what was happening in the house while Marian was away.
6 What do you think?
What do you think of Chandler? What kind of a husband might he be?
Do you think he will try to play the role of a rich idler again? Give reasons for your answer.
What do you think of Marian? Is she a spoilt girl? What makes you think so? Say what you like about her and what you do not like. Why?
Chandler worked in the office of an architect. Imagine some day Marian’s family needs serv ices of an architect to do some restoration work in the house. It is Chandler who comes to do the work. Chandler and Marian meet again. Go on with your imagination.
THE TRIMMED LAMP1
Lou2 and Nancy were friends. They came to New York to find work because there was not enough to eat at their homes. Nancy was nineteen. Lou was twenty. Both Nancy and Lou3 were very pretty. Lou found work in a laundry. She was an ironer. Nancy began to work as a sales-girl.
At the end of six months of their life in the big city, Lou met a young man named Dan. They soon be
came good friends. In fact they fell in love with each other. They went out1 together several times a week.
“Aren’t you cold2, Nancy?” Lou asked her friend one evening. They were standing on the corner waiting for Dan. “I feel sorry for you. Why are you working in that old store for eight dollars a week? I made3 eighteen dol lars last week! Of course, ironing is not so pleasant as Helling gloves in a store, but it pays4. None of the ironers make less than ten dollars a week. I like my work.”
“And I like mine,” said Nancy, “even though5 I make only eight dollars a week. I like to work in a big store, and to be among beautiful things and nice people. One of our sales-girls married a steel maker from Pittsburg. He makes a lot of money! You may be sure I’ll catch a millionaire some day! And whom can you marry work ing in a laundry?”
“Why, I met Dan in the laundry,” said Lou. “He came in to get his Sunday shirt and collars and saw me. I was ironing. Later he said he had noticed my arms first, how white and round they were. I tell you, some very rich men come to laundries. Of course if you want to starve and put on airs6, do as you like!”
Just then Dan came. He was an electrician, making thirty dollars a week. It was clear he was in love with Lou, he looked at her with the sad eyes of Romeo.
“Nancy, I want to introduce to you my friend, Mr.Owens. Dan, shake hands with Miss Danforth,” said Lou.
“I’m very glad to meet you, Miss Danforth,” said Dan. “I’ve heard so much about you from Lou.”
“Thanks,” said Nancy, “I’ve heard from her about you, too.”
“I have tickets for a theatre,” said Dan. “Let’s all go.” The three of them1 started out to have a good time together.
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Nancy had no gentlemen friends.2 Nobody waited for her after work. Some of the sales-girls joked that she was waiting to “catch a millionaire”. “I’ll make the big gest catch in the world, — or nothing at all!” she used to say.
One day, two of the sales-girls who worked with Nancy invited her to have dinner together with them and their gentlemen friends. The dinner took place in a fashionable cafee.
One of the gentlemen friends had no hair on his head, — the other wore a diamond ring and liked nei ther the food nor the wine3.
The next day the gentleman with the diamond ring appeared in the shop and asked Nancy to marry him. She said ‘no’. When he left, one of the girls said to Nancy:
“What a terrible fool you are!1 That fellow is a mil lionaire — he is the son of Van Skittles himself! Are you mad, Nancy? What do you want? Do you want to bea Mormon2 and marry Rockfeller3 and the King of Spain at the same time?”
“I don’t want his money,” said Nancy. “I don’t like him, that’s all! I want to marry a rich man, that’s true. But I also want to like him!”
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Lou worked on4 in the laundry. Out of her eight een dollars a week she paid six dollars for her room and board. The rest of the money went for clothes.
When the day’s work was over she met Dan who was always waiting for her outside the laundry. Sometimes Dan did not like her clothes, they were too bright — he thought — and in bad taste5. But she liked bright clothes, and when people in the streets looked at her, she liked that very much.
Dan and Lou always asked Nancy to come with them when they went out to have a good time.
One Saturday afternoon the two girls met, and Lou said: “Dan is always asking me to marry him. But why should I6? I am independent. Now I can do what I like with the money I make. And if I marry Dan he will not allow me to work. Nancy, what are your plans for the future? Have you caught your millionaire yet?”
“Not yet,” said Nancy with a laugh. “I haven’t se lected one yet...”
“You are joking, of course,” said Lou. “Millionaires don’t notice working girls like us. Still I am sure that I’ll catch one before you do.”
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Nancy worked on. She watched and studied the rich men and women who came to the store. She hoped some day to find the man she could marry.
So she kept her lamp trimmed and burning to receive her bridegroom when he should come.1
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One Thursday evening Nancy left the store and walked over to the laundry. Dan and Lou had invited her to go to a musical comedy with them.
Dan was just coming out of the laundry when she arrived. There was a strange nervous look on his face.
“I hoped to find out something about her. I thought they had heard from her2,” he said.
“Heard from whom? What are you talking about?” said Nancy. “Isn’t Lou there?”
“I thought you knew everything,” said Dan. “She hasn’t been here or at the house where she lived since Monday. She took all her things from there. She told one of the girls in the laundry that she was going to Europe.”
“Has anybody seen her anywhere?” asked Nancy.
Dan looked at her. His gray eyes were like steel.
“They told me in the laundry,” he said, “that they saw her yesterday ... in an automobile. With one of those millionaires that you and Lou were always talking about.”
For the first time1 in her life Nancy did not know what to say. Then she laid her hand on Dan’s arm and said:
“You have no right to say such a thing to me, Dan. Do you think that she has done it because of my jokes about millionaires? I am sorry for you, but I have noth ing to do with it2.”
“I’m sorry I said it,” answered Dan, “Don’t be angry with me!”
“I have tickets for a show to-night,” he said a mo ment later. “If you...”
Nancy saw how miserable he was and she felt sorry for him.
“I’ll come with you, Dan,” she said.
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Three months passed before Nancy saw Lou again.
One evening she was hurrying home from the store. Suddenly somebody called her name. She turned around and saw Lou who caught her in her arms.
Nancy noticed at once that Lou had become rich. She was very well dressed and had diamond rings on her fin gers.
“You little fool3,” cried Lou, “I see you are still working in that store. I see you haven’t caught a mil lionaire yet.”
And then Lou looked and saw that Nancy had some thing better than money, something that shone brighter than stars in her eyes, something that was redder than a rose in her cheeks. Happiness!
“Yes, I’m still in the store,” said Nancy, “but I am going to leave it next week. I’ve made my catch, the best catch in the world. I’m going to be married to Dan ... to Dan! He is my Dan now.”
A policeman, going around the corner of the park saw two young women. One of them, with diamond rings on her fingers was crying like a child. The other, a sim ply dressed working girl, was trying to console her. The policeman passed on. He knew he could not help the one who was crying1.
Exercises ? Checking Comprehension
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