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Choose the right preposition: Amelia, on the other hand, as became a young woman of her prudence and temperament, was quite enthusiastic ___ the match

Choose the right preposition: And Amelia was entirely of this opinion, ___ which, gradually, the good-natured Mrs. Sedley was brought

Choose the right preposition: And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was years old - she begged the old gentleman to give the money to dear Rebecca, who must want it, while she lacked ___ nothing

Choose the right preposition: And so while he paired off with Miss Sedley, and Jos squeezed through the gate into the gardens with Rebecca at his side, honest Dobbin contented himself by giving an arm to the shawls, and by paying ___ the door for the whole party

Choose the right preposition: And this ruthless young fellow, seizing hold of Dobbin’s hand, acted over the scene, to the horror of the original performer, and ___ spite of Dobbin’s good- natured entreaties to him to have mercy

Choose the right preposition: As George walked down Southampton Row, ___ Holborn, he laughed as he saw, at the Sedley Mansion, in two different stories two heads on the look-out

Choose the right preposition: As the majestic Jos stepped out of the creaking vehicle the crowd gave a cheer for the fat gentleman, who blushed and looked very big and mighty, as he walked away with Rebecca under his arm. George, ___ course, took charge of Amelia

Choose the right preposition: At which the latter replied haughtily, «My father’s a gentleman, and keeps his carriage»; and Mr. William Dobbin retreated ___ a remote outhouse in the playground, where he passed a half-holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe

Choose the right preposition: But after a scene ___ which one person was in earnest and the other a perfect performer - after the tenderest caresses, the most pathetic tears, the smelling-bottle, and some of the very best feelings of the heart, had been called into requisition - Rebecca and Amelia parted, the former vowing to love her friend for ever and ever and ever

Choose the right preposition: But this did not alter Mrs. Blenkinsop’s opinion of Miss Sharp. «I don’t trust them governesses, Pinner,» she remarked ___ the maid

Choose the right preposition: But when Miss Rebecca Sharp and her stout companion lost themselves ___ a solitary walk, in which there were not above five score more of couples similarly straying, they both felt that the situation was extremely tender and critical, and now or never was the moment Miss Sharp thought, to provoke that declaration which was trembling on the timid lips of Mr. Sedley

Choose the right preposition: Colonel Dobbin’s corps, in which old Mr. Osborne himself was but an indifferent corporal, had been reviewed ___ the Sovereign and the Duke of York; and the colonel and alderman had been knighted

Choose the right preposition: Dobbin - Alderman Dobbin was Colonel ___ the City Light Horse, then burning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion

Choose the right preposition: Every soul in the coach agreed that ___ that night Jos would propose to make Rebecca Sharp Mrs. Sedley

Choose the right preposition: He burst ___ laughing at himself; for the truth is, he could sing no better than an owl

Choose the right preposition: He carried about Amelia’s white cashmere shawl, and having attended under the gilt cockle-shell, while Mrs. Salmon performed the Battle of Borodino (a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met ___ his Russian reverses) - Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found he was humming - the tune which Amelia Sedley sang on the stairs, as she came down to dinner

Choose the right preposition: He said he was vain, selfish, lazy, and effeminate. He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily ___ his pompous braggadocio stories

Choose the right preposition: He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace - and coming back to the table, filled himself bumper after bumper of claret, which he swallowed ___ nervous rapidity

Choose the right preposition: He walked very modestly behind them. He was not willing to spoil sport. About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig. But he thought Amelia worthy even of the brilliant George Osborne, and as he saw that good-looking couple threading the walks to the girl’s delight and wonder, he watched her artless happiness ___ a sort of fatherly pleasure. Perhaps he felt that he would have liked to have something on his own arm besides a shawl (the people laughed at seeing the gawky young officer carrying this female burthen); but William Dobbin was very little addicted to selfish calculation at all; and so long as his friend was enjoying himself, how should he be discontented

Choose the right preposition: Her behaviour was so affecting that he was going to write her a cheque ___ twenty pounds more

Choose the right preposition: High and low, all made fun ___ him. They sewed up those corduroys, tight as they were

Choose the right preposition: His son had entered the army: and young Osborne followed presently in the same regiment. They had served ___ the West Indies and in Canada

Choose the right preposition: I know that the tune I am piping is a very mild one (although there are some terrific chapters coming presently), and must beg the good-natured reader to remember that we are only discoursing ___ present about a stockbroker’s family in Russell Square, who are taking walks, or luncheon, or dinner, or talking and making love as people do in common life, and without a single passionate and wonderful incident to mark the progress of their loves

Choose the right preposition: In those famous days every gazette had a victory in it, and the two gallant young men longed to see their own names in the glorious list, and cursed their unlucky fate to belong to a regiment which had been away ___ the chances of honour

Choose the right preposition: It is to be understood, as a matter of course, that our young people, being in parties of two and two, made the most solemn promises to keep together during the evening, and separated in ten minutes afterwards. Parties at Vauxhall always did separate, but ’twas only to meet again ___ supper-time, when they could talk of their mutual adventures in the interval

Choose the right preposition: It now became clear to every soul in the house, except poor Amelia, that Rebecca should take her departure, and high and low (always ___ the one exception) agreed that that event should take place as speedily as possible

Choose the right preposition: It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley’s opinion that her son would demean himself ___ a marriage with an artist’s daughter

Choose the right preposition: Let us then step into the coach ___ the Russell Square party, and be off to the Gardens. There is barely room between Jos and Miss Sharp, who are on the front seat. Mr. Osborne sitting bodkin opposite, between Captain Dobbin and Amelia

Choose the right preposition: Miss Sharp kindled with this exciting talk, but Miss Sedley trembled and grew quite faint as she heard it. Mr. Jos told several of his tiger-hunting stories, finished the one about Miss Cutler and Lance the surgeon; helped Rebecca to everything ___ the table, and himself gobbled and drank a great deal

Choose the right preposition: Mr. Sedley was neutral. «Let Jos marry whom he likes,» he said; «it’s no affair of mine. This girl has no fortune; no more had Mrs. Sedley. She seems good-humoured and clever, and will keep him ___order, perhaps. Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.»

Choose the right preposition: Now, William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the rudiments of the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor Swishtail’s scholars, and was «taken down» continually ___ little fellows with pink faces and pinafores when he marched up with the lower form, a giant amongst them, with his downcast, stupefied look, his dog’s-eared primer, and his tight corduroys

Choose the right preposition: Once or twice Jos had been on the point ___ saying something very important to her, to which she was most willing to lend an ear, but the fat fellow could not be brought to unbosom himself of his great secret, and very much to his sister’s disappointment he only rid himself of a large sigh and turned away

Choose the right preposition: Our good child ransacked all her drawers, cupboards, reticules, and gimcrack boxes - passed ___ review all her gowns, fichus, tags, bobbins, laces, silk stockings, and fallals - selecting this thing and that and the other, to make a little heap for Rebecca

Choose the right preposition: She kissed Mr. Sedley’s hand, when he presented her ___ the purse; and asked permission to consider him for the future as her kind, kind friend and protector

Choose the right preposition: She looked as happy as a rose-tree ___ sunshine

Choose the right preposition: She made her preparations ___ departure with great equanimity; and accepted all the kind little Amelia’s presents, after just the proper degree of hesitation and reluctance

Choose the right preposition: She vowed eternal gratitude to Mrs. Sedley, ___course; but did not intrude herself upon that good lady too much, who was embarrassed, and evidently wishing to avoid her

Choose the right preposition: So that everything seemed to smile upon Rebecca’s fortunes. She took Jos’s arm, as a matter of course, on going to dinner; she had sate by him on the box of his open carriage (a most tremendous «buck» he was, as he sat there, serene, in state, driving his greys), and though nobody said a word on the subject of the marriage, everybody seemed to understand it. All she wanted was the proposal, and ah! how Rebecca now felt the want of a mother! - a dear, tender mother, who would have managed the business ___ ten minutes, and, in the course of a little delicate confidential conversation, would have extracted the interesting avowal from the bashful lips of the young man

Choose the right preposition: Such was the state ___ affairs as the carriage crossed Westminster bridge

Choose the right preposition: The argument stands thus - Osborne, in love with Amelia, has asked an old friend to dinner and to Vauxhall - Jos Sedley is in love with Rebecca. Will he marry her? That is the great subject now ... hand

Choose the right preposition: The fact is, Miss Amelia, in the drawing-room balcony, was looking very eagerly towards the opposite side of the Square, where Mr. Osborne dwelt, ___ the watch for the lieutenant himself; and Miss Sharp, from her little bed-room on the second floor, was in observation until Mr. Joseph’s great form should heave in sight

Choose the right preposition: The parents at home had acquiesced in the arrangement, though, between ourselves, old Mr. Sedley had a feeling very much akin ___ contempt for his son

Choose the right preposition: The party was landed at the Royal Gardens ___ due time

Choose the right preposition: They had previously been to the panorama of Moscow, where a rude fellow, treading on Miss Sharp’s foot, caused her to fall back with a little shriek into the arms of Mr. Sedley, and this little incident increased the tenderness and confidence of that gentleman ___ such a degree, that he told her several of his favourite Indian stories over again for, at least, the sixth time

Choose the right preposition: This mystery served to keep Amelia’s gentle bosom in a perpetual flutter of excitement. If she did not speak with Rebecca on the tender subject, she compensated herself with long and intimate conversations with Mrs. Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, who dropped some hints to the lady’s-maid, who may have cursorily mentioned the matter to the cook, who carried the news, I have no doubt, to all the tradesmen, so that Mr. Jos’s marriage was now talked of by a very considerable number ___ persons in the Russell Square world

Choose the right preposition: What were the adventures of Mr. Osborne and Miss Amelia? That is a secret. But be sure of this - they were perfectly happy, and correct in their behaviour; and as they had been in the habit ___ being together any time these fifteen years, their tete-a-tete offered no particular novelty

Choose the right preposition: Why should I spare him?» Osborne said to his friend’s remonstrances, when they quitted the invalid, leaving him under the hands ___ Doctor Gollop

Choose the right preposition: Young Dobbin had no peace after that. The jokes were frightful, and merciless against him. «Hullo, Dobbin,» one wag would say, «here’s good news ___ the paper. Sugars is ris’, my boy.» Another would set a sum - »If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much must Dobbin cost?» and a roar would follow from all the circle of young knaves, usher and all, who rightly considered that the selling of goods by retail is a shameful and infamous practice, meriting the contempt and scorn of all real gentlemen

Choose the right preposition: he restrained his feelings: the carriage was in waiting to take him to dinner, so he tripped away with a «God bless you, my dear, always come here when you come to town, you know. - Drive ___ the Mansion House, James

Choose the right preposition: «But, lor’, Ma’am,» ejaculated Mrs. Blenkinsop, «we was only grocers when we married Mr. S., who was a stock-broker’s clerk, and we hadn’t five hundred pounds ___us, and we’re rich enough now.»

Choose the right preposition: «He’s priming himself,» Osborne whispered to Dobbin, and at length the hour and the carriage arrived ___ Vauxhall

Choose the right preposition: «I suppose you know best,» Dobbin said, though rather dubiously. «You always were a Tory, and your family’s one ___ the oldest in England. But - «Come and see the girls, and make love to Miss Sharp yourself,» the lieutenant here interrupted his friend; but Captain Dobbin declined to join Osborne in his daily visit to the young ladies in Russell Square

Choose the right preposition: «That’s George’s present ___ you, Rebecca, dear,» said Amelia, quite proud of the bandbox conveying these gifts. «What a taste he has! There’s nobody like him.»

Choose the right preposition: «Your father’s only a merchant, Osborne,» Dobbin said ___ private to the little boy who had brought down the storm upon him

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Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: . «Come away, Becky,» said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great ___, and the drawing-room door closed upon them for ever

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A black servant, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton’s shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at least a score of young ___ were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were produced in the drawing-room, ___ on the solemn occasions of the visits of parents, and these refreshments being partaken of, Miss Sedley was at liberty to depart

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ___-sentimental

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Although schoolmistresses’ ___ are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyard epitaphs; yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs this life who is really deserving of all the praises the stone cutter carve over his bones; who IS a good Christian, a good parent, child, wife, or husband; who actually. it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully worthy of the praises bestowed by the disinterested instructor

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: As the Hammersmith Semiramis spoke, she waved one hand, both by way of adieu, ___ to give Miss

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Being commanded by her ___ sister to get «the Dictionary» from the cupboard, Miss Jemima had extracted two copies of the book from the receptacle in question

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Following the birth of their third daughter in 1940 (the second died soon after her birth in 1839) Isabella suffered a permanent mental ___, a tragedy that profoundly affected Thackeray’s work

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: For she could not only sing like a ___, or a Mrs. Billington, and dance like Hillisberg or Parisot; and embroider beautifully; and spell as well as a Dictionary itself

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: For three days before, little Laura Martin, the orphan, followed her about like a little ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He died in ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He started his career by practising ___but soon abandoned it in favour of journalism.

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He started his career by practising law but soon abandoned it in favour of journalism. Thackeray travelled abroad very ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His ___ died in 1814 when William was only 3, and he was sent to England, to be in the care of his great grandmother and great aunt, in 1817, and was educated there

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His mother married again and returned to ___ with Thackeray’s step father in 1819

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In Miss Jemima’s eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep ___ as would have been a letter from a sovereign

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In fact, it was a little battle between the young lady and the old one, ___ the latter was worsted

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In fact, the Lexicographer’s name was always on the lips of this majestic woman, and a visit he had paid to her was the cause of her reputation and her ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In the given chapters we meet, through the medium of Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the socially and economically advantaged Amelia Sedley in stark contrast to the disadvantaged but sharp-witted Rebecca (Becky) ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing ___ her venerable and Roman-nosed head (on the top of which figured a large and solemn turban), she said, «Miss Sharp, I wish you a good morning

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Sedley’s ___ was a merchant in London, and a man of some wealth; whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil, for whom Miss Pinkerton had done, as she thought, quite enough, without conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Sharp only folded her own hands with a very frigid smile and bow, and quite declined to accept the proffered honour; on which Semiramis tossed up her turban more indignantly than ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Nay, the acute observer might have recognised the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some ___ pots in the window of that lady’s own drawing-room

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her ___, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Now, Miss Amelia Sedley was a young lady of this singular ___; and deserved not only all that Miss Pinkerton said in her praise, but had many charming qualities which that pompous old Minerva of a woman could not see, from the differences of rank and age between her pupil and herself

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: On the cover was inserted a copy of «Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s ___, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.»

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when they were about to be married, and once, when poor Miss Birch died of the scarlet ___, was Miss Pinkerton known to write personally to the parents of her pupils

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sharp an opportunity of shaking ___ of the fingers of the hand which was left out for that purpose

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She had to make and receive at least fourteen ___ - to make fourteen solemn promises of writing every week

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Thackeray returned to ___ in 1837 where his first daughter was born and where he continued his journalistic career

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Thackeray went up to Cambridge in January 1829 and went down in June 1830, without a degree, but having made a lot of ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The flowers, and the presents, and the trunks, and bonnet-boxes of Miss ___ . having been arranged by Mr. Sambo in the carriage, together with a very small and weather-beaten old cow’s-skin trunk with Miss Sharp’s card neatly nailed upon it, which was delivered by Sambo with a grin, and packed by the coachman with a corresponding sneer - the hour for parting came; and the grief of that moment was considerably lessened by the admirable discourse which Miss Pinkerton addressed to her pupil

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The story is set in the period of the Napoleonic wars and, like so many classic works of literature, mixes ambition, greed, duplicity, coarseness, riches, and ___ into one of literature’s great satirical pictures, which the author intended to be applied to early/mid-Victorian England

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There is also a picturesque cast of other characters such as Amelia’s ___ brother Jos or the devotedly loyal William Dobbin

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: This novel is the perfect starting point for those wishing to discover Thackeray’s bright ___, attractive humour, and seldom matched comic powers

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: This talk with sister completed, Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley’s, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson’s Dictionary - the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars, on their departure from the ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Vanity Fair was Thackeray’s first major ___, and is commonly considered to be his masterpiece

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Well, he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When Miss Pinkerton had finished the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: While living in ___ he married Isabella Shawe in1836

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, ___ on 18th July, 1811 where his father, Richmond, was a Collector in the service of the East India Company

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: it was Jemima’s opinion that if anything could console Mrs. ___ for her daughter’s loss, it would be that pious and eloquent composition in which Miss Pinkerton announced the event

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «For Becky Sharp,» answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blushing over her withered face and neck, ___ she turned her back on her sister. «For Becky Sharp: she’s going too.»

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «For whom is this, ___ Jemima?» said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «I suppose I must,» said Miss Sharp calmly, and much to the wonder of Miss Jemima; and the ___ having knocked at the door, and receiving permission to come in, Miss Sharp advanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, «Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.»

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «MISS JEMIMA!» exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. «Are you in your senses? Replace the Dictionary in the closet, and never venture to take ___ a liberty in future.»

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «Send Miss Sedley instantly ___ me,» said Miss Pinkerton. And so venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «Well, sister, it’s only two-and-ninepence, and poor Becky will be miserable if she don’t get ___.»

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: «You’ll go in and say good-by to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!» said Miss Jemima to a young lady of whom nobody took any notice, and ___ was coming downstairs with her own bandbox

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A goblet of Champagne restored Joseph’s equanimity, and before the bottle was emptied, of which as an invalid he took ___, he had agreed to take the young ladies to Vauxhall

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And ___, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can’t resist them, if they do

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And this I set down as a positive ___. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: At this, I don’t know ___ for what reason, Mrs. Sedley looked at her husband and laughed

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If a person is too poor to keep a servant, though ever so ___, he must sweep his own rooms

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was an advance, and as such, perhaps, some ladies of indisputable correctness and ___will condemn the action as immodest; but, you see, poor dear Rebecca had all this work to do for herself

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Let them show ___ inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Only let us be ___ that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don’t know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: if a dear girl has no dear Mamma to ___ matters with the young man, she must do it for herself

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Before he went to India he was too young to ___ of the delightful pleasures of a man about town, and plunged into them on his return with considerable assiduity

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the ___ of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most sombre sort, that we are to have for a constant companion so guileless and good-natured a person

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But he was ___lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her; high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter’s granddaughter) allowed that her figure was ___; and as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt’s

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He ___ knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He did not live with his family while in London, but had ___ of his own, like a gay young bachelor

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented); he ___ the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the opera, laboriously attired in tights and a cocked hat

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had lived for about eight years of his life, quite alone, at this charming ___, scarcely seeing a Christian face except twice a year, when the detachment arrived to carry off the revenues which he had collected, to Calcutta

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He never was well dressed; but he took the hugest pains to ___ his big person, and passed many hours daily in that occupation

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was as vain as a girl; and perhaps his extreme shyness was one of the results of his extreme ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivan; the appearance of a lady frightened him beyond measure; ___ it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good-natured old father frightened his amour-propre

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Her music she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and she had remained at home, she was overheard to play a ___ so well that Minerva thought, wisely, she could spare herself the expense of a master for the juniors, and intimated to Miss Sharp that she was to instruct them in music for the future

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His bulk caused Joseph much anxious thought and alarm; now and then he would make a desperate attempt to get rid of his superabundant fat; but his indolence and love of good living speedily got the better of these endeavours at ___, and he found himself again at his three meals a day

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Luckily, at this time he caught a liver ___, for the cure of which he returned to Europe, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: On returning to India, and ever after, he used to talk of the pleasure of this ___of his existence with great enthusiasm, and give you to understand that he and Brummel were the leading bucks of the day

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She had twelve intimate and ___ friends out of the twenty-four young ladies

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She took advantage, .., of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course of study which was considered necessary for ladies in those days

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at ___ school

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: So that when the day of ___ came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The two couples were perfectly happy then in their box: where the most ___ and intimate conversation took place

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When dressed at length, in the afternoon, he would issue forth to take a drive with nobody in the Park; and then would come back in order to dress again and go and dine with nobody at the Piazza ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears that they were ___ to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with sal volatile

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, (to have) run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: After marriage this Sehnsucht nach der Liebe must (to subside)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Almost for the first time in his life, Mr. Sedley found himself (to talk), without the least timidity or hesitation, to a person of the other sex

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And before he had time to ask how, Mr. Joseph Sedley, of the East India Company’s service, was actually (to seat) tete-a-tete with a young lady, looking at her with a most killing expression; his arms stretched out before her in an imploring attitude, and his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: As Joe’s buggy drove up, and while, after his usual thundering knock and pompous bustle at the door, the ex-Collector of Boggley Wollah laboured up stairs to the drawing-room, knowing glances were telegraphed between Osborne and Miss Sedley, and the pair, smiling archly, looked at Rebecca, who actually blushed as she (to bend) her fair ringlets over her knitting

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: As there was music in the next room, the talk was (to carry) on, of course, in a low and becoming tone, though, for the matter of that, the couple in the next apartment would not have been disturbed had the talking been ever so loud, so occupied were they with their own pursuits

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But at the close of the ditty, Rebecca quitted the piano, and giving her hand to Amelia, walked away into the front drawing-room twilight; and, at this moment, Mr. Sambo made his appearance with a tray, (to contain) sandwiches, jellies, and some glittering glasses and decanters, on which Joseph Sedley’s attention was immediately fixed

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Conversation of a sentimental sort, (to befit) the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, and even Mrs. Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, condescended to listen on the landing-place

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Cuff’s fight with Dobbin, and the unexpected issue of that contest, will long (to be) remembered by every man who was educated at Dr. Swishtail’s famous school

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack’s bean-stalk, and he (to reach) up to the sky in a night.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Having (expend) her little store of songs, or having stayed long enough in the back drawing-room, it now appeared proper to Miss Amelia to ask her friend to sing

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He did not lie awake all night thinking whether or not he was in love with Miss Sharp; the passion of love never (to interfere) with the appetite or the slumber of Mr. Joseph Sedley; but he thought to himself how delightful it would be to hear such songs as those after Cutcherry - what a distinguee girl she was - how she could speak French better than the Governor-General’s lady herself - and what a sensation she would make at the Calcutta balls. «It’s evident the poor devil’s in love with me,» thought he

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He had never (to be) but once at a tiger-hunt, when the accident in question occurred, and when he was half killed - not by the tiger, but by the fright

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He had never (to be) known before to confer such an honour on Russell Square. George Osborne was somehow there already (sadly «putting out» Amelia, who was writing to her twelve dearest friends at Chiswick Mall), and Rebecca was employed upon her yesterday’s work

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was quite (to surprise) and delighted at his own graceful familiar manner.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was (to admit) into Dr. Swishtail’s academy upon what are called «mutual principles» - that is to say, the expenses of his board and schooling were defrayed by his father in goods, not money

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: How her heart beat as Joseph appeared - Joseph, (to puff) from the staircase in shining creaking boots - Joseph, in a new waistcoat, red with heat and nervousness, and blushing behind his wadded neckcloth

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: If he had (to have) the courage; if George and Miss Sedley had remained, according to the former’s proposal, in the farther room, Joseph Sedley’s bachelorhood would have been at an end, and this work would never have been written

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the interesting pair, when they entered to announce that tiffin (to be) ready

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It is what sentimentalists, who (to deal) in very big words, call a yearning after the Ideal, and simply means that women are commonly not satisfied until they have husbands and children on whom they may centre affections, which are spent elsewhere, as it were, in small change

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was a nervous moment for all; and as for Amelia, I think she was more frightened than even the people most (to concern)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was the sentiment of the before-mentioned words, «When I’m (to go),» over again. As she came to the last words, Miss Sharp’s «deep-toned voice faltered.» Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Joseph Sedley, who was fond of music, and soft-hearted, was in a state of ravishment during the performance of the song, and profoundly (to touch) at its conclusion

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Miss Rebecca (to ask) him a great number of questions about India, which gave him an opportunity of narrating many interesting anecdotes about that country and himself

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Osborne hinted that he should like quite as well to sit in the dark; but Miss Sedley, laughing, declined to bear him company any farther, and the two accordingly (to follow) Mr. Joseph.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Perhaps she just looked first into the bouquet, to see whether there was a billet-doux hidden among the flowers; but there (to be) no letter

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Sambo, who flung open the door and announced Mr. Joseph, followed grinning, in the Collector’s rear, and (to bear) two handsome nosegays of flowers, which the monster had actually had the gallantry to purchase in Covent Garden Market that morning - they were not as big as the haystacks which ladies carry about with them now-a-days, in cones of filigree paper; but the young women were delighted with the gift, as Joseph presented one to each, with an exceedingly solemn bow

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: She had, too, in the course of this few days’ constant intercourse, warmed into a most tender friendship for Rebecca, and discovered a million of virtues and amiable qualities in her which she (to have) not perceived when they were at Chiswick together

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: She sang a French song, which Joseph did not understand in the least, and which George confessed he did not understand, and then a number of those simple ballads which (to be) the fashion forty years ago, and in which British tars, our King, poor Susan, blue-eyed Mary, and the like, were the principal themes

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: So the conversation went on. I don’t know on what pretext Osborne left the room, or why, presently, Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine-apple; but Jos was left alone with Rebecca, who (to have) resumed her work, and the green silk and the shining needles were quivering rapidly under her white slender fingers

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The latter Youth (who (to use) to be called Heigh-ho Dobbin, Gee-ho Dobbin, and by many other names indicative of puerile contempt) was the quietest, the clumsiest, and, as it seemed, the dullest of all Dr. Swishtail’s young gentlemen

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The skein of silk was just wound round the card; but Mr. Jos had never (to speak)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There is no need of (to give) a special report of the conversation which now took place between Mr. Sedley and the young lady; for the conversation, as may be judged from the foregoing specimen, was not especially witty or eloquent; it seldom is in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They are not, it is said, very brilliant, in a musical point of view, but (to contain) numberless good-natured, simple appeals to the affections, which people understood better than the milk-and-water lagrime, sospiri, and felicita of the eternal Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: To-morrow (to come), and, as sure as fate, Mr. Joseph Sedley made his appearance before luncheon

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When the parents of the house of Sedley returned from their dinner-party, they found the young people so busy in (to talk), that they had not heard the arrival of the carriage, and Mr. Joseph was in the act of saying, «My dear Miss Sharp, one little teaspoonful of jelly to recruit you after your immense - your - your delightful exertions

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When two unmarried persons (to get) together, and talk upon such delicate subjects as the present, a great deal of confidence and intimacy is presently established between them

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: he stood there - most at the bottom of the school - in his scraggy corduroys and jacket, through the seams of which his great big bone were (to burst) - as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings of the establishment), and other commodities

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «(to thank) you, dear Joseph,» said Amelia, quite ready to kiss her brother, if he were so minded. (And I think for a kiss from such a dear creature as Amelia, I would purchase all Mr. Lee’s conservatories out of hand.)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Bravo, Jos!» (to cry) Osborne

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Bravo, Jos!» said Mr. Sedley; on (to hear) the bantering of which well-known voice, Jos instantly relapsed into an alarmed silence, and quickly took his departure.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Did you ever hear anything like your brother’s eloquence?» whispered Mr. Osborne to Amelia. «Why, your friend has (o work) miracles.»

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Do they (to talk) the language of flowers at Boggley Wollah, Sedley?» asked Osborne, laughing

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «For any one who wants a purse,» replied Miss Rebecca, looking at him in the most gentle winning way. Sedley was (to go) to make one of the most eloquent speeches possible, and had begun - «O Miss Sharp, how - » when some song which was performed in the other room came to an end, and caused him to hear his own voice so distinctly that he stopped, blushed, and blew his nose in great agitation

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «I (to be) sure he will to-night, dear,» Amelia said, as she pressed Rebecca’s hand; and Sedley, too, had communed with his soul, and said to himself, « “Gad, I”ll pop the question at Vauxhall.»

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «O heavenly, heavenly flowers!» exclaimed Miss Sharp, and (to smell) them delicately, and held them to her bosom, and cast up her eyes to the ceiling, in an ecstasy of admiration

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «Pooh, nonsense!» replied the sentimental youth. «Bought “em at Nathan”s; very glad you like “em; and eh, Amelia, my dear, I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let”s (to have) it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather.» Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «The more the better,» said Miss Amelia; who, like almost all women who (to be) worth a pin, was a match- maker in her heart, and would have been delighted that Joseph should carry back a wife to India

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: «You shall hear,» said Amelia; and Joseph Sedley was actually polite enough to (carry) the candles to the piano