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Read the passage given below and answer the questions/ complete the statements that follow by choosing the appropriate options from the given ones.
Of Mortimer she saw very little. Farm and woods and trout streams seemed to swallow him up from dawn till dusk. Once, following the direction she had seen him take in the morning, she came to an open space among nut bushes, which were further shut in by huge yew trees, in the centre of which stood a stone pedestal surmounted by a small bronze figure of a youthful Pan (Greek god of shepherds). It was a beautiful piece of workmanship.
Her attention was, however, held by the fact that a newly cut branch of grapes had been placed as an offering at its feet. Grapes were none too plentiful at her home. Sylvia snatched the bunch angrily from the pedestal. She was filled with annoyance as she strolled slowly homeward, and then gave way to a sharp feeling of something that was near fright; from a thick tangle of bushes a boy’s face was scowling at her, brown and beautiful, with unutterably evil eyes.
It was a lonely pathway; all pathways around her home were lonely for that matter. So she sped forward without waiting to give a closer look at this sudden source of freight. It was not till she had reached her house that she discovered that she had dropped the bunch of grapes in her flight.
‘I saw a youth in the wood today’, she told Mortimer that evening, ‘brown-faced and rather handsome, but a rascal to look at. A gipsy lad, I suppose.’
‘A reasonable theory’, said Mortimer, ‘only there aren’t any gipsies in these parts at present’.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions/ complete the statements that follow by choosing the appropriate options from the given ones.
Of Mortimer she saw very little. Farm and woods and trout streams seemed to swallow him up from dawn till dusk. Once, following the direction she had seen him take in the morning, she came to an open space among nut bushes, which were further shut in by huge yew trees, in the centre of which stood a stone pedestal surmounted by a small bronze figure of a youthful Pan (Greek god of shepherds). It was a beautiful piece of workmanship.
Her attention was, however, held by the fact that a newly cut branch of grapes had been placed as an offering at its feet. Grapes were none too plentiful at her home. Sylvia snatched the bunch angrily from the pedestal. She was filled with annoyance as she strolled slowly homeward, and then gave way to a sharp feeling of something that was near fright; from a thick tangle of bushes a boy’s face was scowling at her, brown and beautiful, with unutterably evil eyes.
It was a lonely pathway; all pathways around her home were lonely for that matter. So she sped forward without waiting to give a closer look at this sudden source of freight. It was not till she had reached her house that she discovered that she had dropped the bunch of grapes in her flight.
‘I saw a youth in the wood today’, she told Mortimer that evening, ‘brown-faced and rather handsome, but a rascal to look at. A gipsy lad, I suppose.’
‘A reasonable theory’, said Mortimer, ‘only there aren’t any gipsies in these parts at present’.
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