The time machine
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Task 1
Once there were two men. Each of them had a son. One of the men - we shall call him Mr. White was very strict with his son, and his friend -Mr. Brown always used to say, "Why are you so strict? I am not so strict, but my son is as good as yours."
One day both men went to see their friends. Their sons were with them too, playing in the garden. Soon the two men began, to talk about their sons, and again Mr. Brown said, "I can't still understand, why you are so strict with your son."
Mr. White looked out of the window and called his son. He wrote a note and gave it to him, saying, "Tom, take this note home and bring me an answer from Mother." "Very well, Father," said his son and went out.
As soon as the boy left the room, his father began to speak, "Tom is going downstairs. He is opening the door. He is going round the corner of the street. He is passing the Opera and Ballet theatre now. He is going along our street. He is walking up to the house. He is at the door. He is ringing the bell. He is entering the house. He is standing before his mother. He is giving the note to her. She is reading the note. She is writing her answer. He is getting the answer. He is on his way here. He is passing the cinema. He is crossing the street. He is at the door of the house. He is ringing the bell. He is coming upstairs. He is here now," and then, looking towards the door, he called, "Tom!"
"Here I am, Father," answered Tom.
"Did you go home and get what I wanted?"
"Yes, I did. Here is Mother's answer."
"Good, my boy. Thank you. You may go to your friends now." Mr. Brown said then, "My son can also do this." He wrote a note, called his son in, and told him to take the note to his mother and bring him an answer.
"Hurry up, Bill. I need Mother's answer."
"Yes," said the boy. "I understand." And he went out. His father began to speak just like the other man, "Bill is going downstairs. He is at the door. He is going out. He is walking down the street. He is crossing the street. He is turning to the right. He is at the gate of the park now. He is passing the museum. He is near our house. He is at the door. He is ringing the door-bell. He is going in. He is giving the note to his mother. He is getting her answer. He is hurrying downstairs. He is in the street. He is turning to the left. He is at the gate of the park. He is walking up the street. He is walking up to the house. He is at the door. He is coming upstairs," and then, looking towards the door, he called, "Bill!"
"Yes, Father," answered Bill.
"Give me the answer from Mother."
"I... I... I shall go in a minute, Father. I can't find my cap."
Both men looked at each other, but did not say a word.
2. Answer the questions.
1.Were both men strict with their sons?
2.Where did both men go one day?
3.Did their sons go with them too?
4.What did Mr. White tell his son to do?
5.Was Tom at the door when his father called him?
6.What did Mr. Brown do?
7.Was Bill at the door when his father called him?
8.What is your opinion about the sons?
9.What is your opinion about the fathers?
Task 2
THE INVISIBLE MAN
Part I
The hero of the novel is Griffin, a gifted young scientist. He invents a substance that makes a person invisible and tries it on himself. Wishing to continue his experiments, Griffin comes to a quiet provincial town and stops at an inn. His secluded way of life and strange occupation arouse the suspicion of the narrow-minded Mr. and Mrs. Hall - the innkeepers. They begin spying on Griffin. Finally things come to an open quarrel.
The stranger returned to his room about half past five in the morning, and there he remained until near midday. He was very hungry. Three times he rang his bell, but Mrs. Hall did not answer it, as she was angry with him for his rudeness. What the stranger was doing was unknown. He must have occupied himself with some experiments at his table. About noon he suddenly opened the door and stood staring at the people in the bar, "Mrs. Hall," he called. Mrs. Hall came forward holding an unsettled bill in her hand. "Is it your bill you want, sir?" she asked.
"Why wasn't my breakfast laid? Why haven't you answered my bell? You must think I can live without eating. What?"
"You should have paid my bill, sir," said Mrs. Hall.
"Look here, my good woman..." he began.
"Stop talking," said Mrs. Hall. "Before I get any breakfast, you've got to tell me one or two things I don't understand. Your room was empty, but how did you get in again? You must have climbed in through the window. I suppose you know that people who stop in this house come in by the door. That's the rule."
"You might have been more polite, at least," the stranger interrupted her in an angry voice, stamping his foot. "You don't understand who I am. I'll show you!" He took off his spectacles and everyone in the bar gasped: there was nothing behind them. He began to remove the bandages that covered the rest of his face. Mrs. Hall fell down unconscious as she saw that the stranger had no head. The people in the bar rushed out. The news of the headless man spread all the way down the street in no time and soon a crowd of perhaps forty people gathered at the door of the little inn. A little procession pushed its way through the crowd: first Mrs. Hall, then Mr. Bobby Jaffers, the village constable, and others. Mr. Hall must have been to the police to bring help. They all marched up the steps and entered the stranger's room at once. They saw the headless figure sitting at the table.
2. Answer the questions.
1.What kind of writer is Herbert Wells?
2.What facts about him do you know?
3.Which of his novels are the most popular?
4.What is the hero of the novel "The Invisible Man"?
5.What did he invent?
6.Where did the events of the extract take place?
7.Why did the innkeepers spy on Griffin?
Task 3
THE INVISIBLE MAN
Part II
"What's this?" came an angry voice from above the collar of the figure.
"You are a strange person," said Jaffers, "but head or no head I'll have to arrest you." And he produced a pair of handcuffs. At the next moment the stranger's gloves came off and dropped on the floor. He ran his arm down his waistcoat, and the buttons to which his empty sleeves were pointed, became undone. Then he bent down and began doing something with his shoes and socks.
"Why!" said Jaffers, "That's no man at all. It's just empty clothes. Look!" He held out his hand and it seemed to meet something in the air.
"Can't you be more careful? You might hurt my eye," said angry voice. "As a matter of fact, I'm invisible. It's strange, perhaps, but it's not a crime."
"I've got my instructions," Jaffers said holding his handcuffs ready.
"Well," said the stranger, "I'll come. But no handcuffs."
"Pardon me, but..."
Suddenly the figure sat down. Before anyone could realize what was happening, the shoes, socks and trousers had been kicked off under the table. Then the stranger jumped up and threw off his coat.
"Hold him," cried Jaffers, "he gets the things off."
There was a rush at the white shirt which was fluttering in the air. Jaffers grasped at it, and only helped to pull it off.
"You could have held him faster," one of the men said to the policeman. "Why did you let him go?" "Here he is!" another man cried out. Many people were hit out of the air. The struggling crowd was moving down the stairs and towards the house door.
"I got him!" shouted Jaffers. He held his unseen enemy fast, but he must have been hit suddenly as he cried out with pain and fell heavily on the ground. There were excited cries "Hold him!", "In-visible!" Half way across the road a woman screamed as something pushed her. A dog must have been kicked by an invisible foot as it ran into the yard nearby. And the invisible man was gone for-ever from the town.
2. Answer the questions.
1.Who entered the stranger's room and why?
2.Did the people succeed in holding the invisible man?
3.What happened then?
4.The invisible man was gone forever, wasn't he?
Task 4
THE TIME MACHINE
Part I
One evening a prominent scientist, the author calls him Time Traveller, showed his friends a small model of a machine which he called the Time Machine. He said that he was going to send that model into the future.
Time Traveller said the big Time Machine was almost ready and that in a week's time he was going to travel into the future himself.
The next Thursday, which was the day when they usually gathered in the scientist's house, his friends came again, but they did not find the scientist at home. There was a note asking them to start dinner without him.
In the middle of the dinner the door of the dining-room opened, and the Time Traveller came in. He looked very tired. He explained to his friends that he had just returned from the remote future and told them the following story.
The Time Machine was ready at ten o'clock this morning. I sat down in the saddle.
I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping lever in the other. Then I pressed the starting lever. I felt as if I were falling. Almost immediately I pressed the stopping lever. Looking round I saw the laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? Then I noticed the clock. Before I started, it had shown ten o'clock. Now it was nearly half past three.
2. Answer the questions.
1.What is the name of the scientist?
2.What did Time Traveller show to his friends?
3.What did he explain to his friends, when he came into the dining-room in the middle of the dinner?
Task 5
THE TIME MACHINE
Part II
I took the starting lever with both hands and pressed it. The laboratory became dark. Mrs. Watchett came in and walked without seeing me, towards the garden door. I suppose it took her a minute to cross the room, but it seemed to me that she shot across the room like a rocket. I turned the lever to its extreme position. Night came at once, and in another moment came tomorrow. Tomorrow night came at once, then day again, night again, faster and faster. The laboratory disappeared and I saw the sun moving very quickly across the sky, every minute marking a day. I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed, and I had come into the open air.
The speed of the Machine became greater and greater. I could not see the sun any more, the change of the day and night had turned into one continuous grayness.
I was still on the hillside, on which this house now stands. I saw trees growing and changing the color now brown, now green, as the seasons changed; they grew, then became old and died. I saw how huge buildings appeared and disappeared.
On my Machine I had dials with hands, which registered my speed. Now, looking at them, I saw that I was moving at a speed of a year a minute.
As I was moving further and further into the future, I felt more and more curiosity. What should I see when I stopped? How had humanity changed? What wonderful progress had been achieved? I saw splendid architecture passing before my eyes, and I noticed that the climate had changed as there were no more winters.
The desire to stop was growing more and more, and finally I pressed the stopping lever. The stop was so sudden, that the Machine overturned and I was thrown out of it on the grass.
I looked round me. I was in a beautiful garden. In the distance I saw huge buildings with columns. Before me stood a stone Sphinx on a bronze pedestal.
Then I saw some men and one of them approached me. He was small and looked very handsome, but very frail. Then he turned to two others and spoke to them in a language which I did not under-stand. They talked to me and touched me with their little hands.
2. Answer the questions.
1.Where did Time Traveller find himself when the Time Machine suddenly stopped?
2.What did he see around him?
3.How did the people look like?
Task 6
THE TIME MACHINE
Part III
One of the little men came up to me and put a chain of beautiful flowers around my neck. The others liked the idea and they began running about and throwing flowers at me. Then they took me by the hands and led to the nearest building.
The building was very large, very old and partly destroyed. Everything was covered with dust. There were many low tables and on the tables I saw heaps of fruits, which I did not know. The little people began eating and I followed their example because I was hungry and thirsty. These people ate only fruit, and while I was with them, I also ate nothing else. I found later, that in this world there were no horses, sheep or dogs. But the fruits were excellent.
I was surprised to see that these people had very little interest in me. They were like children: they came up to me, looked at me and said something, but very soon they got tired of me and walked away to find some other toy.
I tried to learn their language, pointing at things and asking them to say the words for them. But it was a very slow and difficult process because they were not interested in teaching me.
I left the building and walked up a hill to get a better view of the surrounding world. I saw large palaces, very beautiful but partly destroyed. There were no small houses at all.
2. Answer the questions.
1.How did the little people greet Time Traveller and where did they take him?
2.Did Time Traveller and the people understand each other?
3.The people were not interested in teaching Time Traveller their language, were they?
4.What did Time Traveller see around him?
Task 7
THE TIME MACHINE
Part IV
All the people were dressed in the same way, had the same long curly hair. I could not say which of them were men and which were women. The children looked like grown-ups. Another thing that surprised me was that I saw no old people. I thought and thought, but I could not understand this world.
The sun had set and I decided to go down and find a place where I could sleep. I ran down the slope of the hill to see the Time Machine behind it. You can't imagine the horror that I felt: the Time Machine was not there.
I was sure that the little people were too frail to be able to move the Machine. So it was some other power, which I did not know, that had moved it. I was afraid. Only one thought comforted me: the starting and stopping levers were in my pocket, so nobody could move the Machine in time. Somebody had moved the Machine and hidden it.
I was in despair and I went into the big palace. The great hall with tables was dark and empty. Behind it I found another great hall covered with cushions on which many of the little people were sleeping. I struck a match and roared, "Where is my Time Machine?" They woke up and were sur-prised to see the match. Some of them laughed, some were afraid. It was clear that they knew noth-ing about my Machine and did not understand what I wanted.
I went across the big dining-hall again, and came out. I walked about, looked among the bushes trying to find my Machine and cried. I felt hopelessly cut off from my world.
At last I lay on the ground and fell asleep.
2. Answer the questions.
1.Why was it difficult for Time Traveller to distinguish men, women and children?
2.Why did Time Traveller feel the horror?
3.Why was he in despair?
Task 8
When I woke up, it was morning. Now I was able to think clearly and tell myself quietly, "I must be calm. I must study this world and these people. Perhaps, I shall be able to get materials and tools to make another machine."
I went up to the Sphinx and examined the ground. And there I found tracks which led to the pedestal. Then I knocked on it. The pedestal was hollow. It was clear now that my Time Machine was inside the pedestal. But I could not conceive how to open it.
Two little men came up to me. Pointing to the pedestal I showed that I wanted to open it. But they behaved in a very strange way. They turned and walked away, looking at me as if I was doing something shameful. I tried to break the walls of the pedestal with stones, but could not do it.
Watching these little people, I thought at first that they were not afraid of anything, that they did not know what fear was. But b,y and by I found out that they were afraid of dark, afraid of black things. After dark they gathered in big houses and slept together. Yet I was fool enough not to understand the reason of that fear.
I slept in an empty room. At night I dreamed that I was drowned, and some sea-weeds were touching my face. I woke and it seemed to me that some grey animal was running out of the room. I got up and went out of the palace. Near the ruins I noticed several white figures. They were carrying some dark thing.
As it grew lighter, the white figures disappeared. I was telling myself that those white figures were simply the play of my imagination. But I was thinking of them all the morning.
It was very hot and I was looking for a place where I could hide from the sun, I found a dark passage and walked along it. It was very dark in it. Suddenly I stopped: two bright eyes were looking at me out of the darkness.
I was afraid. Still I stepped forward, put out my hand and touched something soft. At once something white rushed past me. I turned and saw a strange little figure. It quickly crossed the open space and disappeared down one of the wells.
I ran up to the well, struck a match and looked down. It was very deep. I couldn't see any water in it, but heard some noise like the work of a big engine. The white figure was climbing down.
2. Answer the questions.
1.Where was the Time Machine?
2.How did the little people behave near the pedestal?
3.What did Time Traveller see after waking?
4.What did he hear from the well?
Task 9
THE TIME MACHINE
Part VI
It became clearer and clearer to me that the figure I had seen was a human being. Gradually, I began to see the truth: as hundreds of centuries passed, Man had developed along, two lines. Now there were two different kinds of human beings: the beautiful frail little people of the Upper World, and these white people of the night, that lived in the Underground World.
I was thinking hard, trying to understand the social system of this world.
Maybe these underground people did the work there that was necessary for the comfort of the Upperworld people? Already in our time there is a tendency to use more and more underground space for industry and our workers spend more and more time under the ground. Again in our time the growing tendency of rich people is to make more and more of the land their private property. So, above the ground you must have rich people who enjoy pleasure, comfort and beauty; and under the ground live the workers.
However, this future world was not so beautiful, this civilization was dying. The Upperworlders which were called Eloi had degraded in size, strength and intelligence. That I could see clearly enough. What had happened to the Undergrounders which were called Morlocks — I did not know yet.
I decided to go down into one of the wells and see with my own eyes what was there.
2. Answer the questions.
1.What did Time Traveller understand?
2.What did Time Traveller think about the social system of that world?
3.The future world was not so beautiful, was it?
4.What did Time Traveller decide to do?
Task 10
THE TIME MACHINE
Part VII
Early in the morning I went up to one of the wells and began to climb down by the bars which formed a ladder. I was climbing down a long time. At last I saw an opening in the wall from which a horizontal tunnel began. I got into the tunnel and lay down to rest.
I don't know how long I lay. Suddenly I felt a soft hand touching my face. I quickly took out my matches and struck one. I saw three white figures. But as soon as I struck a match they ran away along the tunnel.
I got up and walked along the tunnel. Soon I came to a large open space. I struck another match and looked around. I saw some big machines. The smell of fresh blood was in the air. On the metal table I saw big pieces of meat, and I was surprised because I had not seen any large animals in this world. Then the match burned down and it was dark again.
While I was standing in the dark, a hand touched my arm, cold fingers touched my face. I thought .1 heard the breathing of a crowd of these little beings around me. Some of them were pulling at my clothes, others were trying to take the match-box out of my match-box hand. I shivered and shouted loudly. They stepped back but immediately approached me again. I was terribly frightened. I struck a match and quickly moved back along the tunnel. At last I reached the opening into the well. When at last I got out of the well, I fell on my face and did not move for a long time.
2. Answer the questions.
1.What did Time Traveller do early in the morning?
2.What did he see in the tunnel?
3.Whom did he meet there?
4.What did Time Traveller do when he got out of the well?
5.What did the little beings try to do?
Task 11
THE TIME MACHINE
Part VIII
Now I was afraid. I feared the dark nights when there was no moon in the sky. It was not so difficult now to understand that I had been wrong when I supposed that the Upperworld people were the aristocracy and the Morlocks their servants. Maybe it had been so a long time ago, but now all had changed. Suddenly I remembered the meat which I had seen in the Underworld. At last the real state of things became clear to me. These Eloi were simply cattle of the Morlocks. They took care of them, like our farmers take care of their cattle, and supplied them with food and clothes. And in the dark nights they came out
of their wells, examined their cattle and took as many as they needed for their food.
However, I was not so helpless as these little people. I could at least fight and defend myself. I decided to find some tool to break the pedestal of the Sphinx and get my Time Machine.
About eight or nine in the morning I came to the lawn where the Sphinx was. My plan was to break the walls of the pedestal with my iron bar and get in.
And now came a most unexpected thing. As I came to the Sphinx, I found that the pedestal was opened.
I stopped, hesitating to enter. I could see my Time Machine inside. The levers were in my pocket.
Suddenly I understood what the Undergrounders thought. Laughing to myself I stepped into the pedestal. As I was standing near the Time Machine and examining it, there happened just what I had expected. The door of the bronze pedestal closed. I was in the dark — trapped. So the Undergrounders thought. And I laughed.
I was sitting in the saddle and fixing the levers, when they came and tried to seize me. I pressed the starting lever, and they disappeared. The darkness fell from my eyes. I was going back to my own time. When I was near, I slowed the Machine down little by little, remembering my fall when I had stopped it suddenly. At last the old walls of the laboratory came round me. Very gently I stopped the Machine. I got off and sat down on a bench. For several minutes I trembled. Then I became calmer. Around me I saw my old workshop again, exactly as it had been.
2. Answer the questions.
1.How did Time Traveller plan to defend himself against the Undergrounders?
2.How was Time Traveller going to get back his Machine?
3.Why did the Undergrounders open the pedestal?
4.Why did Time Traveller laugh to himself when he understood their plan? How did he return to his time?
Task 12
ART FOR HEART'S SAKE
Part I
"Take your medicine, sir," Koppel, said the servant.
"No!" said Mr. Ellsworth.
"But it's good for you, sir."
"No!"
"It's doctor's orders."
"No!"
When the doctor came, Koppel told him, "I can't do a thing with him. He won't take his medicine. He doesn't want me to read to him. He hates the radio. He doesn't like anything."
Doctor Caswell received the information with his usual professional calm. The old gentleman was quite well for a man of seventy-six. But he had to be kept from buying things. This was a kind of mania with him. He bought everything he saw — cars, horses, factories. His money was disappearing quickly. It was necessary to get him so interested in something that he would forget business.
Mr. Ellsworth was sitting in a chair. He turned to answer the doctor's cheerful greeting.
The doctor sat down next to the old man. "I've got something to suggest," he said cheerfully.
"What is it, more medicine, more trips, more rubbish to keep me away from the office?"
"How would you like to take up art?"
The old gentleman's answer was a sharp, "Rubbish!"
"I don't mean seriously," said the doctor. "Just fool around with chalk and pencils."
To the doctor's great surprise, the old man suddenly said almost childishly, "But, Caswell, how shall I start playing with the chalk if I'm foolish enough to start?"
"I've thought of that. A friend of mine is the head of an art school and I can get a student from his school to come here once a week. If you don't like it after some time, you can stop it."
2. Some of the statements below do not correspond to the contents of the text. Read them.
1.Mr. Ellsworth was in the hospital.
2.He liked medicine.
3.He was 56 years old.
4.Mr. Ellsworth had to be kept from buying things.
5.He did not like buying things.
6.Mr. Ellsworth was sitting on the floor when the doctor came in.
7.The doctor suggested to Mr. Ellsworth to buy a new car.
8.Mr. Ellsworth liked the idea to take up arts.
Task 13
ART FOR HEART'S SAKE
Part II
Doctor Caswell went to his friend and told him about Mr. Ellsworth's wish. The friend just had a young man — Frank Swain, eighteen years old, a very good student. He needed
money and worked as a lift-boy at night to pay for his lessons. How much would he get? Five dollars a visit? Fine.
Next afternoon young Swain came, and the lessons began. Swain gave the old man a pencil and a sheet of paper and said, "Let's try and draw that vase. Try it, Mr. Ellsworth, please."
The old man took the pencil and made a line. He made another line and connected the two with several other lines. "There it is, young man," he said. "Such foolishness!"
Frank Swain did not get angry. He could not. He needed the five dollars. "If you want to draw," he said, "you will have to look at what you're drawing, sir."
Old Ellsworth turned and looked. "It's rather nice. I have never noticed it before."
The doctor came in and said that Mr. Ellsworth was rather weak, so it was enough for the first lesson.
The weeks went by. Swain came more and more often. The old man asked him to come two and even three times a week. Swain brought him a box of water-colours and some tubes of oil.
It was difficult to say whether Ellsworth had really become interested in art or whether he was secretly laughing to himself while looking at Dr. Caswell, Swain and Koppel. But one thing was certain: Ellsworth stopped buying things, his relatives were greatly pleased.
Task 14
ART FOR HEART'S SAKE
Part III
One day the doctor allowed Ellsworth to visit with Swain the Museum of Modern Art, the famous Lathrop Gallery and other exhibitions. The results were excellent. The old man forgot business and became interested only in art. He wished to know everything about the galleries and the painters who exhibited in them. How were the galleries run? Who selected the pictures for the exhibitions? These were questions which he often asked.
When spring came, Ellsworth produced an awful piece of painting which he called "Trees Dressed in White". Then he suddenly declared that he was going to exhibit it at the Lathrop Gallery. His declaration made Caswell and Swain think that the old man had gone crazy because the Lathrop Gallery was one of the finest galleries in New York.
"If the papers learn of this, Mr. Ellsworth will become a laughing stock. We must stop him," said Swain. But Dr. Caswell cut him short. "By no means," he said. "We can't interfere him now, it will spoil everything. Let him sent his picture."
To the greatest astonishment of all three, "Trees Dressed in White" was taken for the Lathrop Gallery. "Not only Mr. Ellsworth is crazy," thought Koppel, "but the Lathrop Gallery must have gone crazy too."
The painting was placed in the dark corner. Very few people noticed it.
During the exhibition the old man continued to take his lessons, but he spoke very little of his own picture. He was usually cheerful. Every time Swain entered he found Ellsworth laughing to himself. Maybe Koppel was right and the old man was crazy? But what about Lathrop Gallery? Was it crazy too?
Two days before the closing of the exhibition Mr. Ellsworth received a letter; Koppel brought it on a tray when Swain and the doctor were in the room. "Read it to me," said the old man. "My eyes are tired of painting."
Koppel took it and read, "It gives the Lathrop Gallery pleasure to announce that First Prize of 1000 dollars has been awarded to Mr. Ellsworth for his painting "Trees Dressed in White". Swain was too surprised to say anything, Dr. Caswell managed to say, "Congratulations, Mr. Ellsworth ... Fine... Fine. Well, now you see yourself that art is much more interesting than business."
"Art's rubbish," said the old man. "I bought the Lathrop Gallery last month."
2. Answer the questions.
1.What questions did Ellsworth often ask?
2.What did Ellsworth produce when spring came?
3.What did Caswell and Swain think of the old man?
4.What did Mr. Ellsworth receive the First Prize for? Why?
Task 15
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Part I
The policeman on duty moved along the avenue. The time was only about 10 o'clock at night, but the cold wind had driven the people from the streets into homes.
The policeman tried doors which belonged to business places that had long since been closed.
In the doorway of a darkened store the policeman saw a man with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly.
"It's all right, officer," he said. "I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment we made twenty years ago. At that time there was a restaurant where now this store stands — 'Big Joe' Brady's restaurant."
"Five years ago it was pulled down," said the policeman. The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale face with keen eyes and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. In his tie he wore a large diamond.
"Twenty years ago," said the man, "I dined here at 'Big Joe' Brady's restaurant with Jimmy Wells, my best friend and the finest fellow in the world. He and I had grown up here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. Jimmy stayed in New York. He thought it was the only place on earth to live in. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again in exactly twenty years."
"It sounds pretty interesting," said the policeman. "Haven't you heard from your friend since you left?"
"Well, yes, for a time we corresponded, but after a year or two we lost tracks of each other."
The waiting man pulled out a watch, the lids of which were set with small diamonds.
"Three minutes to ten," he announced. "It was exactly ten o'clock when we parted here at the restaurant."
The policeman walked a step or two.
"I'll be on my way. I hope your friend comes here. Are you going to wait for him only till ten?"
"Oh, no," said the other. "I'll wait till half past ten at least. If Jimmy is alive on earth he'll be here by that time. Good night, officer!"
"Good night, sir," said the policeman, passing on, trying the doors as he went.
2. Answer the questions.
1. What kind of man did the policeman see?
2. Whom was the man waiting for?
3. Was the waiting man rich? Why do you think so?
4. Till what time was the man going to wait for Jimmy?
Task 16
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Part II
There was now a cold rain falling and the wind was blowing steadily. The few passers-by hurried along silently, with coat collars turned high and hands in their pockets. And in the doorway of the store stood the man, who had come a thousand miles to see a friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.
He waited about twenty minutes, and then a tall man in a long overcoat with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man.
"Is that you, Bob?" he asked doubtfully.
"Is that you, Jimmy?" cried the man in the doorway.
"Of course!" exclaimed the newcomer grasping both the other's hands with his own.
"You've changed a lot, Jimmy. I never thought you were so tall."
"Oh, I grew a little after I was twenty."
"Doing well in New York, Jimmy?"
"Not bad. I have a position in one of the city departments. Come on, Bob, we'll go to a place I know and have a good long talk about old times."
The two men started up the street arm-in-arm. The man from the West was beginning to tell the history of his career. The other listened with interest.
At the corner stood a drug-store brightly lit. When they came into the light, both of them turned at the same moment to look into each other's face.
The man from the West stopped suddenly and pulled his arm away.
"You are not Jimmy Wells," he said. "Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man's nose from a straight one to a plug".
"But twenty years sometimes change a good man into a bed one," said the tall man. "You've been under arrest for ten minutes, Silky Bob. We received a wire from Chicago. You are wanted there. Going quietly, are you? Now before we go to the station here's a note I was asked to hand you. It's from the policeman Wells."
The man from the West took the little piece of paper. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he had finished. The note was rather short,
"Bob, I was at the appointed place in time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wanted in Chicago.
Somehow I couldn't do it myself so I went off and sent a detective to do the job. Jimmy."
2. Answer the questions.
1.Who are the heroes of the story "After Twenty Years"?
2.Under what circumstances did they meet?
3.Why couldn't Bob recognize his friend at first?
4.Why do the policeman send a detective to the place where Bob was waiting for his friend?
5.Why couldn't Jimmy arrest Bob?
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