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Владимир Дмитриевич Аракин
care. Take care: do you hear? You may go too far.
N a p o l e o n : What are you hinting at? Who is this woman?
L a d y
ture, with a very able and ambitious husband who knows her through and through: knows that she had lied to him about her age, her
income, her social position, about everything that silly women lie about: knows that she is incapable of fidelity to any principle or any
person; and yet cannot help loving her — cannot help his man's instinct to make use of her for his own advancement with Barras.
N a p o l e o n
L a d y : Nonsense! Or do you mean that you are that sort of man?
fireplace):
L a d y
nour in them; and much good may they do you. Goodbye.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
1. The Man of Destiny: Napoleon regarded himself as an instrument in the hands of destiny.
2. shew, shewed: show, showed — in standard English.
3. fichu
4. Buonaparte: Bonaparte ['b3un3pa:t],
5. Tut! Tut! [Utj: an exclamation of contempt, impatience or annoyance.
___6. Dalila [di'laib]: a biblical name used as a symbol of a treacherous,
faithless woman.
7. Beaulieu Jean Pirre ['bjidij: Commander-in-chief of the Austrian army in Italy defeated in 1796 by Napoleon.
8. Per Bacco
9. Caesar's wife is above suspicion: the words ascribed to Julius Caesar ['cfeuiljss 'si:za].
10. Barras Paul: a reactionary politician, a member of the Directory which governed France at that time.
11. Begone: go away.
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
Vocabulary Notes
1. character
person's character we must know how he thinks, feels and acts. They differ in character. 2) the qualities that make a thing what it is,
as the character of the work, soil, climate, etc.; 3) moral strength, e.
thing. 4) a person in a play or novel,
novel are real people, others are fictional. 5) a person who does something unusual, e.
person's abilities, e.