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держаться со мной наравне.

Все стало ясно: он просто не умел ходить на лыжах. Я очень пожалела, что поехала с ним. Дело не в том, что он оказался плохим лыжником.

Он был лгун и хвастун. А с этим я не могла смириться.

7. Make up and act out in front of the class a suitable dialogue using the Speech Patterns.

TEXT SIX THE MAN OF DESTINY

By G.B.Shaw

"^George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), a prominent playwright, was born of an impoverished middle-class family in Dublin where he attended a college. In

1876 he started working as a journalist in London. He became a socialist in 1882 and in 1884 joined the Fabian Society, an organization of petty bourgeois

intellectuals. In 1879 G.B.Shaw took up writing plays, in which he criticized the vices of bourgeois society. Bernard haw is famous for his brilliant

dialogues, full of witty paradoxes and often bitterly satirical. In his play The Man of Destiny 1 (1895) he depicts Napoleon as a practical business-like man

who makes his career at the cost of human lives. Bernard Shaw was a friend of the Soviet Union which he visited in 1931.

A little inn in North Italy. Napoleon has just put under arrest the lieutenant who arrived without the letters and dispatches he had

been sent for, saying that an unknown youth had tricked him out of them.

T h e L a d y ' s v o i c e ( outside, as before): Giuseppe!

L i e u t e n a n t ( petrified) : What was that?

G i u s e p p e : Only a lady upstairs, lieutenant, calling me.

L i e u t e n a n t : Lady! It's his voice, I tell you.

The Strange Lady steps in. She is tall and extraordinarily graceful with a delicately intelligent face: character in the chin: all keen,

refined, and original. She's very feminine, but by no means weak.

L i e u t e n a n t : So I've got you, my lad. So you've disguised yourself, have you? [In a voice of thunder, seizing her wrist.) Take off

that skirt.

L a d y (affrighted, but highly indignant at his having dared to touch her)-. Gentleman: I appeal to you (To Napoleon.) You, sir,

are an officer: a general. You will protect me, will you not?

L i e u t e n a n t : Never you mind him, General. Leave me to deal with him.

N a p o l e o n : With him! With whom, sir? Why do you treat this lady in such a fashion?

L i e u t e n a n t : Lady! He's a man! the man I shewed 2 my confidence in. (Raising his sword.) Here, you —

L a d y (running behind Napoleon and in her agitation clasping to her breast the arm which he extends before her as a

fortification): Oh, thank you, General. Keep him away.

N a p o l e o n : Nonsense, sir. This is certainly a lady and you are under arrest. Put down your sword, sir, instantly. I order you to

leave the room.

G i u s e p p e ( discreetly ) : Come, lieutenant. (He opens the door and follows the lieutenant.)

L a d y : How can I thank you, General, for your protection?

N a p o l e o n (turning on her suddenly): My despatches: come! (He puts out his hand for them.)