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metaphors and three epithets used by the author to characterize Stephens and comment on them. 8. Give synonyms of colloquial style

to the following literary words: 'to flounder', 'hazardous', 'content', 'a trifling indisposition', 'errand', 'to perceive'. 9. What words and

phrases are used to describe Stephens at the beginning and at the end of the story? How can the reader gather that Stephens was

happy in Spain? What was it that attracted him to Spain? 10. How does the author draw the main character: by de scribing him or by

showing him through his actions and conversation? 11. Find evidence in the story that the author sympathized with Stephens. What

traits of character did the doctor possess that appealed to the author? 12. How would you explain the title of the story? 13. What is the

message of the story and by what devices did the author achieve the effect?

13.Retell Text Seven close to the text.

14.Give a summary of Text Seven.

15.Discuss Stephens's idea of happiness.

16.Make up and act out a dialogue between two friends discussing what happiness is.

VOCABULARY EXERCISES

1. Study the Vocabulary Notes and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.

2.Translate the following sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the words and word combinations in bold type:

A. 1. Confide in me, and all will be well. 2. He had to make sure that she would not be likely to confide the whole story to

Gervase, which she might do. 3. Kayerts was moved almost to tears by Wallace's kindness. He would, he said, by doing his best, try

to justify his confidence. 4. Doubtless he realized that something was in the wind, but I'did not think it necessary to take him fully

into my confidence. 5. He inspired universal confidence and had an iron nerve. 6. Turning towards her he saw a glimmer of

understanding come into her eyes, and he quickly smiled to give her confidence. 7. It had become his second nature to listen to

confidences and not to offer them. 8. Mr. Pyne, what I am about to tell you is in the strictest confidence! You do understand that,

don't you? 9. During the war Bret was sure she had never worried about him, she was perfectly confident of his coming back unhurt.

Her confident letters had made him lonely. 10. He hurried up the basement stair and out of the house, and started running along the

street. 11. He started the motor and the boat swung away from the dock. 12. Everyone assumed from the start, just as I did myself,

that Gilbey was a writer. 13. I told him the whole story from start to finish. 14. Finally, with a start, he aroused himself from his

reverie. 15. The luxury of the house embarrassed Dolly and made her feel badly dressed, out of place and timid. 16. Miss Brown

poured out her story, going back to points she had forgotten, getting confused and repeating herself. 17. The accident threw the

traffic into confusion.

18. There was just awkward embarrassment in not knowing how to react to such a curious outbreak. 19. I noticed he'd dropped his