5. Comment on the following:

1). "I'm sorry," she said, "I did not mean to offend you. You know I love your house; I have a great affection for it and always will. But I can't help saying what I think as to the way it's kept. Nothing new for so long, no real warmth about it, and lacking — well, lacking comfort, if you'll forgive that too."

2). No, all things considered, I was pretty cocksure, pretty confident, that when I had actual speech with my cousin Rachel I should find my tongue.

3). But preparations for the visit, that was the deuce, the facade of courtesy before the salute to arms.

4). Good God, I thought, to put that woman into Ambrose's room, what sacrilege. I flung myself down in my chair, biting the stem of my pipe. I felt angry, unsettled, sick of the whole concern. It was madness to have sent that message through my godfather, madness to have her in the house at all. What in the name of the devil had I let myself in for?

6. Translate the following passage: “There was a portrait of Ambrose hanging on the wall above the fireplace, painted when he was a young man. I did not even know of its existence, and he had probably forgotten it. Had it been done by some well-known painter it would have been below with the other family portraits, but sent up here, to a room never used, suggested no one had thought much of it. It was painted three-quarter length, and he had his gun under his arm and carried a dead partridge in his left hand. The eyes looked ahead into my eyes, and the mouth smiled a little. His hair was longer than I remembered it. There was nothing very striking in the portrait or in the face. Only one thing. It was strangely like myself. I looked in the mirror, and back again to the portrait, and the only difference lay in the slant of his eyes, something narrower than mine, and in his darker colouring of hair. We could be brothers, though, almost twin brothers, that young man in the portrait and myself. This sudden realisation of our likeness gave an uplift to my spirits. It was as if the young Ambrose was smiling at me, saying, "I am with you." And the older Ambrose, too, felt very close.”

UNIT 8.

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

to bid smb to do smth, stupefaction, to make believe, to feel hampered, to find one’s tongue, gruffly, pernickety, to clash in with, to be out of keeping with, to hem about

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

An inaudible voice, to cut a figure, to shrink, woefully, inadequate, snubbed, a viper, a petulant doll.

3. Make up a dialogue using the following words and word combinations:

1). An inaudible voice, to cut a figure, to shrink and shiver in the English climate, to tramp about some place, snubbed, fine stones.

2). The array of relics, woefully, inadequate, an interloper, to bear resemblance to the image, to be crabbed, a viper.

3). To bid smb to do smth, stupefaction, to make believe, to feel hampered, to find one’s tongue, to clash in with, .to hem about.