5. Comment on the following:

1). And all his words were punctuated with a new formality of address. I was "Mr." Philip. No longer "Master" Philip. I had noticed the same with the coachman and the groom. It was unexpected, yet strangely warming to the heart.

2). She had so many faces, so many guises, and that name contessa, used by the servant Giuseppe and by Rainaldi too, in preference to Mrs. Ashley, gave to her a kind of aura she had never had with me at first, when I had seen her an another Mrs. Pascoe.

3). A year ago I would have rolled up my sleeves like the rest of the hinds and seized a fork, but something stayed me now, a realization that they would not think it fit.

4). It came upon me strongly and with force, and for the first time since I had learnt of Ambrose's death, that everything I now saw and looked upon belonged to me. I need never share it with anyone living. Those walls and windows, that roof, the bell that struck seven as I approached, the whole living entity of the house was mine, and mine alone. The grass beneath my feet, the trees surrounding me, the hills behind me, the meadows, the woods, even the men and women farming the land yonder, were all part of my inheritance; they all belonged.

5). "that no young man knows his own mind until he turns twenty-five. You might have grown up with a weakness for drink or gambling or women, and this twenty-five-year clause made a safeguard.”

6). “I don’t believe it,“ I said. “I can’t believe it.” “You mean you won’t believe it”.

UNIT 7.

1. Translate the following words and word combinations and reproduce the situation from the text:

To inflict smth upon smb, by hearsay, agog with excitement, on receipt of some letters, to bluster one’s way out, a foolhardy thing to do, insidious, without dismay, effects, to make no odds, to be dressed to the nines, to space out the time

2. Define the meanings of the following words and word combinations:

To make of smth, to grow hard, tenacity, to make up the suite, a slave driver, to stamp one’s personality, questing fingers, to make a point of doing smth.

3. Give synonyms for the following words:

A recurrence, trustee, carefree, a boor, abstinence, to trespass, curiosity, conscience, dallying.

4. Translate the sentences

1). О том, что его друг причинял много боли другим людям, он знал совсем не понаслышке (to inflict smth upon smb, by hearsay).

2). Получив несколько писем, описывающих нового соседа, все жители этого маленького городка просто сгорали от любопытства и нетерпения наконец-то увидеть эту мечту всех невест страны (on receipt of some letters, to be agog with excitement).

3). Принесли тортик, подарили цветы… И думаете такими мелочами можно оправдать ваше неправильное поведение? (to bluster one’s way out).

4). Авантюры этих мошенников всегда были настолько правдоподобны и виртуозны, что они могли обмануть самого бдительного полицейского (foolhardy things).

5). Только коварный обольститель мог без малейшего смятения чувств воспользоваться ее бедственным положением (insidious, without dismay).

6). При его огромных доходах доля утерянного имущества в результате пожара была настолько несущественна, что, услышав эту печальную новость, он только улыбнулся (effects, to make no odds).

7). Сводные сестры Золушки разоделись в пух и прах в надежде привлечь внимание принца (to be dressed to the nines).

8). Побуждаемый сиюминутными желаниями и руководимый мелкими страстишками, он надела очень много глупостей, о которых, впоследствии, сожалел (to be goaded by).

9). Не смей транжирить свое время! Лучше займись чем-то полезным: научись вышивать крестиком, свари клубничного варенья, ну или просто щи (to space out the time).