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Владимир Дмитриевич Аракин
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is fhe Earth and everything that's in it,
And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!
SECTION TWO
Ex. 12, a)
... George said his watch went wrong one evening, and stopped at a quarter past eight. He didn't know this at the time because, for
some reason or other, he forgot to wind it up when he went to bed.
... It was in the winter when this happened, very near the shortest day, and a week of fog into the bargain, so the fact that it was
still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time.
... It was a quarter past eight. "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" exclaimed George, "and here have I got to be in the City
by nine. Why didn't somebody call me? Oh, this is a shame!" And he flung the watch down, and sprang out of bed, and had a cold
bath, and washed himself and dressed himself, and shaved himself in cold water because there was not time to wait for the hot, and
then rushed and had another look at the watch.
Whether the shaking it had received in being thrown down on the bed had started it, or how it was, George could not say, but cer-
tain it was that from a quarter-past eight it had begun to go, and now pointed to twenty minutes to nine.
George snatched it up, and rushed downstairs. In the sitting- room, all was dark and silent: there was no fire, no breakfast.
... Then he dashed on his great-coat and hat, and, seizing his umbrella, made for the front door ... and ran out.
He ran hard for a quarter of a mile, and at the end of that distance it began to be borne in upon him as a strange and curious thing
that there were so few people about, and that there were no shops open.
... Then, with his watch still in his hand, he went up to the policeman, and asked him if he knew what time it was.
"What's the time?" said the man, eyeing George up and down with evident suspicion, "why, if you listen you will hear it strike."
George listened, and a neighbouring clock immediately obliged.
"But it's only gone three!" said George in an injured tone, when it had finished.
"Well, and how many did you want it to g o ? " replied the constable.
"Why, nine," said George, showing his watch. "Do you know where you live?" said the guardian of public order severely.
George thought, and gave the address.
"Oh! that's where it is, is i t ? " replied the man; "well, you take my advice and go there quietly, and take that watch of yours with
you; and don't let's have any more of it."
(From "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K.Jerome)
SECTION THREE
Ex. 19.
H a r r y : Nora! Nora!
N o r a
H a r r y : Oh, there you are. Look here, Nora, I'm tired of lying here on my back with nothing to do. I hate doing nothing.
