II. Paraphrase the following sentences using word combinations from the text.

1. Robert was inclined to be a little stuffy about actresses.

2. He came forwards and in his polite and friendly way shook hands with Lady Hardy.

3. He is a rogue.

4. She couldn’t refuse to listen to her husband’s appeal.

5. It was a mocking looking which warned you.

6. When his uncle had died Fred Hardy went into Parliament himself.

7. I was puzzled at first and then it dawn on me.

8. You were a bit of lazy-bones even in those days.

9. When I was home on my holidays once, I went to garage.

10. You’ve been exaggerating a bit, haven’t you, with all those stories I hear of your courage in the trenches.

11. She just loved him blindly.

12. He tried to do his best to be nice to her.

III. Find in the text synonyms for the following Russian words:

быть склонным (2), честность(2), терпеть(2), очаровательный(3), скандал (2), выдавать (2), обманщик (3), нелепый (2), холодно (2), восхищаться(2),

краснеть (2)

IV. Give Russian equivalents and use the expressions in sentences of your own.

To get hold of, to begin proceedings for slander, to resign one’s commission, to enlist, to get a commission, to get the goods on smb., to come clean, to get into scrapes, to make a rule of smth., to keep out of goal, to trade on, to live on wits, to stick at nothing, to let up.

V. Give English equivalents:

навести справки, рассчитаться, приличный человек, неприличный человек, призывать к верности, верить к.-л., не одобрять к.-л., неотразимое обаяние, достаточное состояние, старый хрыч, важная персона, странные вещи, изумительный обман, быть плененным, неотступно преследовать, в погоне за.

VI. Match the words and translate:

affable

mocking

broadened out         hair

bright

close-cropped         person

ringing

engaging                 eyes

friendly

slightly built

affable                     smile (laugh)

caressing

VII. Insert prepositions or adverbs if necessary.

1. She made inquiries ____ them ____ her friends _____ Cannes.

2. Sir Frederick had lately come ____ the baronetcy _____ the death _____ an uncle.

3. Eleanor took an immediate fancy ____ Sir Frederick.

4. Robert always looked as though he had stepped ____ ____ a show-window.

5. I’ve never set eyes ____ you ____ my life.

6. Robert was busy ____ woman ____ the other side ____ him.

7. However dull the women were he was sitting next ____ he gave them ____ his best.

8. Robert placed such confidence ____ her.

9. In crises he had only to call _____ her loyalty.

10. He seemed to be devoted ____ his wife and children now.

11. My old lady doesn’t approve ____ my drinking between meals.

12. I certainly have nothing to be ashamed ____.

13. I haven’t got anything ____ you.

14. He was ___ pursuit ___ an ideal.

15. You seem to be very decent ____ your wife and that’s ___ your favour.

VIII. Paraphrase the following sentences. Say in what situation they occur in the text.

1. Sir Frederick was come to Riviera for two or three years while he was paying off the death duties.

2. “A lot of water has passed under the bridges since first we met.”

3. “You must have been misled by an accidental resemble.”

4. “There is no reason to get up on your hind legs.”

5. He went out of his way to be nice to her and she found him easy to get on with.

6. He had a sudden flash of comprehension.

IX. Explain and expand on the following;

1. His ideas of honesty were lax.

2. Were there any justice in the world he should have ended if not in goal at least in the gutter.

3. The life had been as kind to him as women.

4. If he thought of his past it was with complacency.

5. One really can’t believe everything one hears.

6. A great many women have found him very attractive and a pretty penny it’s cost them.

7. But when their guests had gone Robert’s gaiety dropped from him like a coat from his shoulders.

8. The Hardys shall never darken these doors again.

9. “I admire you for carrying off such a stupendous bluff.”

10.  “I’ve done some pretty rum things in my day, but the nerve you must have, old boy, I take off my hat to you.”

11. She was only a means to a greater end.

12. “Can the leopard change his spots.”

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