I suppose you
will work/ will be working very hard in the autumn.
Ex. 8, p. 439 "Shall I call again tomorrow?"
asked the doctor, before taking leave of the old
man.
"Oh, no, we
will send for you if she
isn't so well," he
replied. "She
has hardly
had any temperature today; her cough is easier; and the pain
has quite
disappeared. I
can't think, though, how she
has caught this germ. She
has hardly
been out of the
house for the last three weeks, owing to the intenseness of the cold, and nobody else
has influenza, or even a cold."
"She
is certainly very subject to infection.
Has she ever
tried a course of
injections to strengthen her system against these germs? Three injections ah intervals
of a week, at the beginning of the winter, will often work marvels."
"It
is difficult to persuade her to take care of herself, doctor,"
sighed the father,
"but when she
is better, I
will certainly
suggest it to her."
Ex. 9, p. 440 Many years ago I
was thrown by accident among a certain society of Englishmen,
who, when they
were all together, never
talked about anything worth talking about.
Their general conversations
were absolutely empty and dull, and I
concluded, as
young men so easily
conclude that those twenty or thirty gentlemen
did not have half
a dozen ideas among them. A little reflection
reminded me, however, that my own
talk
was no better than theirs, and consequently that there
might be others in the
company who also
knew more and
thought more than they
expressed. I
found out by
accident, after a while, that some of these men
had more than common culture in
various directions: one or two
had travelled far, and
brought home the results of
much observation; one or two
had read largely, and with profit; more than one
had studied a science; five or six
had seen a great deal of the world. It
was a youthful
mistake to conclude the men
were dull because their general conversation
was very
dull. The general conversations of English society
are dull; it
is a national
characteristic.